Most disappointing bowl loss

[BigOrangeAl 1979]

For me it was the 1992 Fiesta bowl we had a very good team that year on both sides of the ball. We had a 17-7 against Penn St. and were playing great then promptly melted down and got outscored 35-0 and lost 42-17.

 

[The Original Fade]

I forget the year but the one against Penn St where Foster coughed up the ball late in the game. That sucked

 

[BigOrangeAl 1979]

I forget the year but the one against Penn St where Foster coughed up the ball late in the game. That sucked

. That was the 2007 Outback bowl. Foster fumbled on their 10 yard line with the game tied 10-10 late in the 4th we score a TD there and it’s ballgame. Foster costed us 4 or 5 games in his career I think with game changing fumbles.

 

[VOLfrombama]

97 Orange Bowl. We got whipped in every possible way. Could have claimed a share in the NC instead of semi-validating Woodson's Heisman Heist.

 

[tennesseepride84]

Every last one of them for me.

 

[CubsFanTN]

Maryland trounced us one year in the Peach Bowl, early 2000s. I had (at that point) never seen a Fulmer-led team lay down and die like they did in that game. We've had much more substantial losses than that one, but it's always stuck out to me for some reason.

 

[unfrozencvmanvol]

97 Orange Bowl. We got whipped in every possible way. Could have claimed a share in the NC instead of semi-validating Woodson's Heisman Heist.

Those mid-90's Nebraska teams were a force of nature.

 

[VolInNW]

Maryland trounced us one year in the Peach Bowl, early 2000s. I had (at that point) never seen a Fulmer-led team lay down and die like they did in that game. We've had much more substantial losses than that one, but it's always stuck out to me for some reason.

I remember that game. For me it validated what I had suspected since the 98 NC, Fulmer started phoning it in and stopped coaching. He was never a great coach, but that game showed just how detached he was becoming and would become.

Frustrating game.

 

[GroverCleveland]

For me it was the 1992 Fiesta bowl we had a very good team that year on both sides of the ball. We had a 17-7 against Penn St. and were playing great then promptly melted down and got outscored 35-0 and lost 42-17.

After that loss, I wanted to ban Tennessee from playing Penn State. During those years, they had some bad losses to whatever the hell a Nittany is.

 

[VOLfrombama]

Those mid-90's Nebraska teams were a force of nature.

It was almost unfair, like they had taken steroids or something, and we were the JV practice squad

 

[BigOrangeAl 1979]

97 Orange Bowl. We got whipped in every possible way. Could have claimed a share in the NC instead of semi-validating Woodson's Heisman Heist.

. That game sucked Nebraska completely dominated us and Peyton had his worst game of the season even though I think he had a injured knee he just seemed off and disconnected that game.

 

[Johnnyreb#VFL]

North Carolina in Nashville in true Dooley fashion

 

[BigOrangeAl 1979]

After that loss, I wanted to ban Tennessee from playing Penn State. During those years, they had some bad losses to whatever the hell a Nittany is.

I went to the 1994 Citrus bowl I thought we would get some payback from fiesta bowl two years prior nope they kicked our tails again 31-13 and that 93 Vols team was really loaded even better than the 91 team. Joe Pa owned us in bowls I detest Penn. St to this day.

 

[BigOrangeAl 1979]

Maryland trounced us one year in the Peach Bowl, early 2000s. I had (at that point) never seen a Fulmer-led team lay down and die like they did in that game. We've had much more substantial losses than that one, but it's always stuck out to me for some reason.

. I was working that nite and thankfully missed it I remember my dad saying it was one of the worst and most uninspired Tennessee losses he ever saw.

 

[BigOrangeAl 1979]

North Carolina in Nashville in true Dooley fashion

. Awful loss

 

[YankeeVol]

North Carolina in Nashville in true Dooley fashion

I was at that bowl game. It's definitely up there

 

[BigOrangeAl 1979]

I was at that bowl game. It's definitely up there

Me too i thought the fans were going to storm the field we were so pissed off seeing this happen again in the same season to lose like that again unbelievable. Needless to say I got royally drunk on New Year’s Eve.

 

[GAVol]

Maryland trounced us one year in the Peach Bowl, early 2000s. I had (at that point) never seen a Fulmer-led team lay down and die like they did in that game. We've had much more substantial losses than that one, but it's always stuck out to me for some reason.

You’re right. That’s when the chinks in the armor became apparent. We had back to back Peach Bowls where that happened against Maryland and Clemson and neither team should’ve been able to manhandle us like that.

 

[unfrozencvmanvol]

It was almost unfair, like they had taken steroids or something, and we were the JV practice squad

At least we didn't get skull drug by them as bad as Florida did a couple years before.

 

[BigOrangeAl 1979]

At least we didn't get skull drug by them as bad as Florida did a couple years before.

62-24 lol. Tommie Frazier and Lawrence Phillips ran all over them.

 

[Dudleys87]

Don’t remember the year but it was ice mans last year against Clemson in the peach bowl and he was leading Tennessee back got in the end zone, zebras threw a flag, and he said ****! And Tennessee ends up losing.

 

[Voltopia]

The most disappointing bowl to me was the 2002 Citrus Bowl. Beating Michigan 45-17 was great in the moment but it was also an annoying, grating, irritating, and most of all, glaring reminder that Tennessee had NO BUSINESS losing to LSU in Atlanta and should have played Miami for the title. Yeah, I know, I'm doing the whole "turn the interview question around" bit, but seriously, of all the bowls I think of in my many years, it's the most annoying and certainly the most frustrating. It wasn't even a game. We just goofed around and scored touchdowns. No business losing to LSU. None. GRR. Peyton getting hammered by Nebraska sucked, and that stupid Music City Bowl was a pile of crap, but that 2001 team was the last great Tennessee team and it couldn't get its act together to beat a backup QB or a backup running back and in turn launched Nick Saban's profile into the stratosphere and GAH I just hate that beating Michigan 45-17 is such a meaningless footnote. Just sucks.

 

[Special Ed]

When I was a wee lad, my kid brother stole my bowl of Froot Loops and ate every last loop.
I've been traumatized ever since.

 

[VolFaninFla]

I forget the year but the one against Penn St where Foster coughed up the ball late in the game. That sucked

Outback Bowl 2007.
I was at that game. A rainy miserable day.

 

[YankeeVol]

Me too i thought the fans were going to storm the field we were so pissed off seeing this happen again in the same season to lose like that again unbelievable. Needless to say I got royally drunk on New Year’s Eve.

I may or may not have thrown up in the stands...