Let's go all out in suffering. Rank the most painful UT losses you've experienced.

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I've been thinking about it and I have to say the 2002 loss to Florida was a total embarrassment. My wife was making fun me, my coworkers were making fun of me. I was at a low. I knew it was down hill for a while after that one. I knew it was going to be a loooong clime back up. That's the worst game I can think of since I started following UT football in the mid nineties.
 
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IluvdoubleD's said:
I've been thinking about it and I have to say the 2002 loss to Florida was a total embarrassment. My wife was making fun me, my coworkers were making fun of me. I was at a low. I knew it was down hill for a while after that one. I knew it was going to be a loooong clime back up. That's the worst game I can think of since I started following UT football in the mid nineties.
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How did you feel the next 2 years when we had a short lived winning streak vs Florida?
 
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1990 Bama. After witnessing the epic beatdown of the Gators the week before, seeing them run three times and punt all night was maddening.

Notre Dame was a tough loss that year, but it was such a great game to witness.

Losing to Army in '86 was pretty bad.
 
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ajvol01 said:
How did you feel the next 2 years when we had a short lived winning streak vs Florida?
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Honestly don't remember those. I remember the 2002 vividly like yesterday though. WE COULD NOT SNAP THE BALL. What kind of football team cannot snap a ball? It was pouring rain. The center was ridiculous. I was at work and had my wife record it but I was actually listening to it at work and they were calling us the "volunteers" not in a good way. They were all o state fans. I got home and my wife laughed at me as soon as I walked in the door. Said something like "you don't want to watch that game." Then she went strait to bed. With crap eating grin.
 
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Oh yeah, to ZOOK who I consider a step above Wies. Goofey was the original Muschamp. I was digging in for many years of bad games after that one. It was when we fell and hit bottom IMO. We have been digging out ever since IMO.
 
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The 2005 loss to South Carolina was very painful. That's when it became undeniably obvious that the wheels had somehow come off.

Yeah, we'd already lost to Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, and it was clear already that we weren't going to have a great year, but after the USCe game, it was completely in-your-face that we were witnessing a true disaster of a season.

It was the first time in history that South Carolina won in Neyland Stadium.

It was an extension of the Spurrier heebee jeebees from a new base of operations.

It happened on the very night that we had the ceremony retiring Peyton's number.

It. Truly. Sucked. In so many ways.

So that's one of them, for me.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
The 2005 loss to South Carolina was very painful. That's when it became undeniably obvious that the wheels had somehow come off.

Yeah, we'd already lost to Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, and it was clear already that we weren't going to have a great year, but after the USCe game, it was completely in-your-face that we were witnessing a true disaster of a season.

It was the first time in history that South Carolina won in Neyland Stadium.

It was an extension of the Spurrier heebee jeebees from a new base of operations.

It happened on the very night that we had the ceremony retiring Peyton's number.

It. Truly. Sucked. In so many ways.

So that's one of them, for me.
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My first game in Neyland and everything you said is spot on. If the wheels hadn't fallen off, they officially fell off that night. That loss still hurts.
 
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IluvdoubleD's said:
Honestly don't remember those. I remember the 2002 vividly like yesterday though. WE COULD NOT SNAP THE BALL. What kind of football team cannot snap a ball? It was pouring rain. The center was ridiculous. I was at work and had my wife record it but I was actually listening to it at work and they were calling us the "volunteers" not in a good way. They were all o state fans. I got home and my wife laughed at me as soon as I walked in the door. Said something like "you don't want to watch that game." Then she went strait to bed. With crap eating grin.
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Same thing happened in 2011. Hunter goes out and Bray is literally having to pick balls up off the turf. So twice in 10 years UT's center couldn't complete the snap process accurately the entire game. Never seen it happen against another team like it did against UF in those 2 games.
 
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the ones we coulda, woulda, shoulda won hurt the most.

in watching over 60 years, the memory fades.

still the most painful to remember:

Kiffin's Alabama loss and Dooley's LSU debacle
 
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ru4real-really? said:
the ones we coulda, woulda, shoulda won hurt the most.

in watching over 60 years, the memory fades.

still the most painful to remember:

Kiffin's Alabama loss and Dooley's LSU debacle
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Alabama 1966
Auburn 1971
Alabama 1972
Georgia 1980
ND 1990
Florida 1996
Alabama 1990
LSU 2001
LSU 2010
Im getting sick now.....
 
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wmcovol said:
Alabama 1966
Auburn 1971
Alabama 1972
Georgia 1980
ND 1990
Florida 1996
Alabama 1990
LSU 2001
LSU 2010
Im getting sick now.....
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I would have to go with 2001 LSU and the 1996 UF games as well.

The hype leading up the '96 UF game was off the charts. Neyland had just been expanded, #1 vs. #2!

I can still see the 4th & 11 play vividly. To go down 35-0 was just disheartening.
 
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#189
"The catch"

I sat in Neyland in shock for about 15 minutes after the game

[youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-5611L20Mls[/youtube]
 
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08Vol said:
Same thing happened in 2011. Hunter goes out and Bray is literally having to pick balls up off the turf. So twice in 10 years UT's center couldn't complete the snap process accurately the entire game. Never seen it happen against another team like it did against UF in those 2 games.
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I do remember that one too. When you can't snap the ball you have problems at the most basic level imaginable. It's infuriating to me that U.T. has probably had that problem more than any other team I've seen over the years. That is just unbelievable when it happens. When the ball is on the ground more than in your qb's hands ... I get mad.
 
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#191
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Had to be the 2014 Florida game that we lost 10-9. Worst game of football I've ever watched. Muschamp celebrating at the end of the game only made it worse.
 
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