Best Tennessee Football plays over the past 10 years?

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Griffmann

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Need your brains for a project

Name anything you'd like to see in a video...touchdowns, hits, interceptions, jukes, taunts, crowd pump ups, whatever made you excited to be a vol

Try and name:
What year
Who it was against
What happened
About when in the game it occurred
 
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Griffmann said:
Need your brains for a project, try and name:

What year
Who it was against
What happened
About when in the game it occurred
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Tennessee v Kentucky, 2007. My 21st birthday. OT. SEC Championship Game is up for grabs. Longest winning streak is on the line. Kentucky lines up for the game-winning, streak-ending, birthday ruining, dream-crushing field goal.

IT'S BLOCKED. THE KICK IS BLOCKED. THE VOLS STILL HAVE LIFE.

At the moment, it's the only field goal I can recall us blocking during my years as a student.
 
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The last time we beat FL in Neyland, there was a call for "Unsportsmanlike conduct" against a FL player. It happened around the fifty yard line. We later kicked the game winner. Memory a little fuzzy but seemed like a little "home cookin' " !
Hardesty against Cal TD run was great.
EB KO shots on Moreno, the kid from Bama, and Tebow.
The black unis on Halloween (whether we like them or not)
Smashing Michigan in the bowl game.
The come back and trouncing of UGA.
The Monday night game against LSU.

This could go on forever......
 
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crusse10 said:
Tennessee v Kentucky, 2007. My 21st birthday. OT. SEC Championship Game is up for grabs. Longest winning streak is on the line. Kentucky lines up for the game-winning, streak-ending, birthday ruining, dream-crushing field goal.

IT'S BLOCKED. THE KICK IS BLOCKED. THE VOLS STILL HAVE LIFE.

At the moment, it's the only field goal I can recall us blocking during my years as a student.
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Agreed, that was my first away game. man what a game! The craziest thing is that we scored on the first play from scrimmage (screen pass to Foster) and I was sure it was going to be a blowout...

As far as plays, I think you have to include the 2001 UT vs UGA game when Travis Stephens scored with 47 seconds left. I've never heard the stadium as loud as I did that game. Unfortunately, I've also never heard it as quiet as I did 47 seconds later.
 
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Eric Berry's interception return for a touchdown vs. Florida. I for get if it was 07 or 08.
JJ hit against Brandon James.
 
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VolsDeep said:
Agreed, that was my first away game. man what a game! The craziest thing is that we scored on the first play from scrimmage (screen pass to Foster) and I was sure it was going to be a blowout...

As far as plays, I think you have to include the 2001 UT vs UGA game when Travis Stephens scored with 47 seconds left. I've never heard the stadium as loud as I did that game. Unfortunately, I've also never heard it as quiet as I did 47 seconds later.
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I was there, and despair had already set in. I was sitting with my head in my hands. As the kick is blocked, my head is hit my by friend's elbow as his arms are thrown in the air. I jump up just in time to see EB get yanked down by his facemask.
 
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crusse10 said:
I was there, and despair had already set in. I was sitting with my head in my hands. As the kick is blocked, my head is hit my by friend's elbow as his arms are thrown in the air. I jump up just in time to see EB get yanked down by his facemask.
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I was there too. It's pathetic that that penalty wasn't enforced in any way.
 
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orangesox said:
That was the first play that came to my mind when I read the thread title. From the beginning of the first overtime to the end of the last, it was the wildest Tennessee game I can remember.
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While the play is good and important, it was a simple play executed correctly. A crossing rout against a zone. A blocked kick saving a game not only appears amazing, but sticks with the losing team (see: Terrance Cody)
 
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crusse10 said:
While the play is good and important, it was a simple play executed correctly. A crossing rout against a zone. A blocked kick saving a game not only appears amazing, but sticks with the losing team (see: Terrance Cody)
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yes, but beating Alabama in OT > than beating Kentucky. Both games were amazing, and I tend to agree that the Kentucky game was more exciting because there was more on the line, but that 4th and 19 catch was great.

Edit: and you can't diminish it by saying it was a play executed well, as if it was just another play. That was it. Game on the line. We don't convert 19 yards and we lose to Bama. Plus, there aren't many plays in the playbook for that long of a conversion.
 
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VolsDeep said:
yes, but beating Alabama in OT > than beating Kentucky. Both games were amazing, and I tend to agree that the Kentucky game was more exciting because there was more on the line, but that 4th and 19 catch was great.
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True. The catch was great. Perhaps the timing for me clouds my judgement.

Regardless, I was gonna be getting messed up that night. I just lucked into it being happy instead of angry.
 
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VolsDeep said:
yes, but beating Alabama in OT > than beating Kentucky. Both games were amazing, and I tend to agree that the Kentucky game was more exciting because there was more on the line, but that 4th and 19 catch was great.

Edit: and you can't diminish it by saying it was a play executed well, as if it was just another play. That was it. Game on the line. We don't convert 19 yards and we lose to Bama. Plus, there aren't many plays in the playbook for that long of a conversion.
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But...It was just another play. It was a simple crossing route. There wasn't any pressure. There were holes in the defense. The difficulty of the play from Clausen to Fayton isn't equivalent to blocking a kick.
 
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crusse10 said:
But...It was just another play. It was a simple crossing route. There wasn't any pressure. There were holes in the defense. The difficulty of the play from Clausen to Fayton isn't equivalent to blocking a kick.
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Converting a 4th and 19 against Alabama AT Alabama in 2nd OT with the game on the line is actually probably pretty equivalent to Dan Williams pushing back a lower-tier OL to block a kick by a sophomore kicker... I mean, both plays were amazing, and I'm certainly not trying to diminish one over the other, but I just want to re-emphasize how amazing that 4th and 19 catch was when it happened.
 
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crusse10 said:
But...It was just another play. It was a simple crossing route. There wasn't any pressure. There were holes in the defense. The difficulty of the play from Clausen to Fayton isn't equivalent to blocking a kick.
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That's the reason the play worked, yes. Just like the reason Williams was able to block the kick was because there were holes in the line and the kicker kicked the ball low. That still doesn't take the importance of it away
 
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VolsDeep said:
Converting a 4th and 19 against Alabama AT Alabama in 2nd OT with the game on the line is actually probably pretty equivalent to Dan Williams pushing back a lower-tier OL to block a kick by a sophomore kicker... I mean, both plays were amazing, and I'm certainly not trying to diminish one over the other, but I just want to re-emphasize how amazing that 4th and 19 catch was when it happened.
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I'll give you that. The timing of a deep pass makes it awesome. Sorta like that Ainge-Smith 40 yarder in the same UK game. Sorta mindblowing how that appeared so simple.
 
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1999 Fiesta Bowl NC game. Duane Goodrich breaks on the ball, intercepts and takes it in for 6 against Fla State. 14-0. You knew we would win.
 
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1998 Al Wilson causes Arky to fumble and turns around a losing game. Another great play on the way to a National Championship. Could their be a bigger play?
 
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orangesox said:
That was the first play that came to my mind when I read the thread title. From the beginning of the first overtime to the end of the last, it was the wildest Tennessee game I can remember.
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I had to work on a Subway restaurant in Shelbyville. I left Shelbyville during the 3rd quarter listening to it on the radio.

I drove all the way back to my house (which is about an 1 1/2 half drive) and watched the last two overtimes.
 
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