Most Frustrating Tennessee Loss You Remember?

#101
#101
2005 Notre Dame. Seconds to go before half time. Ball deap in Tennessee territory. Old conservative Phil is surely going to kneel and go into the locke.... Ainge drop backs to pass!? OL, for God sakes block someone! Ainge slammed shoulder first into ground. Didn't recover for 2 seasons. Ushered in the second Clausen administration.:banghead2:
 
#105
#105
The Florida game years back before video review where their kid "caught" a phantom TD pass just across the end zone line to win the game. Basically the ball hit him between the numbers he dropped it and the zebra was already raising his hands giving the TD signal. The '08 UCLA game someone mentioned stunk it up as well. I was sitting in my favorite LA sports bar assured of a win against their first year coach and we flopped horribly. They still to this day razz me when I show my face there, which I don't do to often these days. Love the bar and people hate the bad memory.
 
#106
#106
Easilly the 2001 SEC championship game. Think back to your 21st birthday. Remember how much fun you had. Well, the day of the game was my 21st birthday. My apartment was full of people watching us clinch our spot in the national title game. Thirty minutes after the game, the place is empty. Awful, awful night.:banghead2:
 
#107
#107
92 SC
90 bama
01 GA
99 arkansas cost us a shot at back to back at NC
89 bama cost us perfect season and NC
96 memphis
01 lsu
87 rutgers thanks randy
 
#110
#110
LSU 2001. I was like 11 then and cried like crazy about it. I cursed the entire world of college football for that haha.

Opposite end of the spectrum, biggest pleasant surprises...

Comeback against LSU when Riggs, jr. scored in OT

and 1998 Arkansas
 
#111
#111
1. Alabama, 1990. That game should have been over by halftime. Say what you like about Rutgers, but this was the worst day of Johnny Majors' long coaching career.

2. Alabama, 1993. It wasn't a loss, and it ended up as a "win" in the record books because of their cheating, but it sure as heck didn't feel like anything but a loss that day.

3. LSU, 2001. We weren't going to win the national championship, but I'd sure like to have the chance to see them try.

4. Arkansas, 1999. We were No. 2 in the BCS. The rest of the schedule wasn't much. Win this one and we've got a shot at defending the title, SEC title or not, and we don't have to play Nebraska. Couldn't pull it off.

5. Ole Miss, 1983. Probably dating myself here. The first really good Tennessee team in my lifetime. All we had to do was beat these guys, UK and Vandy and we're in the Cotton Bowl--still a major bowl back then. But we choke on it, Jawja gets the Cotton instead (and wins), and we get our first of many Citrus Bowl trophies. Ugh.

One thing I've never understood is how Johnny managed so many late-season chokes that often put us in worse bowls (or played us out of one, in 1980). He choked to UK in '81 and '84, Vandy in '82, Ole Miss in '79, '80 and '83, Rutgers in '79, Virginia in '80 (at a time when they were horrible) and Boston College in '87. But the one in '83 really hurt because that was a chance to really re-establish UT as a nationally relevant program.
 
#112
#112
Cory Anderson. 2005 Bama game. He fumbled through the endzone on what most likely would have been the game winning TD. Instead it was a turnover and a loss 6-3. Most infuriated I've ever been during a UT game. The loss to Vandy later that year was a close second where all we needed was one stop at the end of the game and could not cover Earl Bennett. I'm getting angry just typing this reply.
 
#113
#113
MOOOOONEY said:
87 rutgers thanks randy
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Huh? We didn't even play Rutgers in 1987. We played them in 1979 and lost, and in 1983, 1985 and 2002, winning all three.

Randy Sanders, if that's who you mean by "Randy," was the backup quarterback in 1987. The only thing he really did all year was hold on the field goals and PATs for Phil Reich.
 
#115
#115
Just thinking of the last decade....'01 SEC C game, LSU.

If ever I could say a game broke my heart and really mean it...that was the game. I felt like a baby. Sickening.

The win in the Swamp the week before, if anything...just made it worse. :cray:
 
#117
#117
Frustrating losses?

Only three still make the hair on my back stand up when I think of them.

1. LSU 01
2. Alabama 90
3. Florida 99
 
#118
#118
1990 Alabama game 6-9 loss
1993 Alabama game 17-17 tie
1995 Florida game 37-62 loss
1996 Florida game 29-35 loss
1997 Florida game 20-33 loss
2006 Alabama game 17-41 loss
2009 Alabama game 10-12 loss
 
#120
#120
2008 UCLA, I thought we were coming into the season VERY underrated with everything we had back. Figured that if Crompton was competent at all we would have a real shot at winning the East again.... turns out that not only was Crompton not competent, neither was Dave Clawson. No chance in hell that offense with everyone back should have been that bad.
 
#121
#121
2001 choke against lsu--UT was much better and didn't even show up, expecting an easy win.
 
#122
#122
KnoxVillain said:
2000 UT vs. UF

Tennessee has a lead late in the game 23-20 over Florida. Florida drives down in the red zone. Jesse Palmer throws a pass to Jabar Gaffney. Gaffney "catches" the ball, and it is almost immediately slapped away by a UT cornerback. Ref calls touchdown. Vols lose.

2003 (I think) UT vs. UGA

This one is hazy to me, someone clear it up. Tennessee fumbles/throws a pick late in the game and UGA takes it to the house to win.
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There is a thread just like this about every 2 months where we all talk about basically 5 different games and how they pissed us off...

But continue with my trend, I will agree with you and say the 2000 Fla vs Tenn game with the "catch" heard round the world... They came out with video replays shortly after this and I thank the catch for this... The announcers and everybody except the ref agreed it was incomplete, but somehow Fla got a TD out of a dropped ball. It still makes me sick to think about it. thanks for that feeling again.
 
#123
#123
VolsRule said:
2001 choke against lsu--UT was much better and didn't even show up, expecting an easy win.
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This one for me as well! I was absolutely sick after that game! Another for me would be the 2006 Outback Bowl against Penn State, aka "fumble-gate." Proving once again that a less talented, yet better coached and better disciplined team can win over a more talented team.
 
#124
#124
How about any of the games in '92 when Majors came back way to early and we dropped 4 in a row after beating Florida and Georgia who were really good and we lose to USCjr and Arkansas!!
 
#125
#125
2001: LSU Loss at the SECCG: worst coaching job by a coach that I've ever seen not being able to adapt the game plan to different players and a QB that choked and could not get anything done.
2007: LSU Loss at the SECCG: The Interception Machine is at it again and it cost us the damn game...
2001: UGA loss at Neyland: we score with I guess 1 minute left and either they returned the kick for a TD or they had a long run and scored leaving about 30s in the clock and as a typical Foolmore team, we never returned a kick or punt of TD...and that was it...
All the damn losses to Auburn...
 
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