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I'm in the thick of working on my next video, "The Third Saturday in October". I'd like to field a few questions from you guys to help in making it more about its title instead of an Alabama jerk off video.

Pertaining only to our annual game:
1) What is the single greatest victory on the Third Saturday in October?

2) What specific play (including the scenario surrounding it) do you consider to be the greatest and most defining moment in the hundred years we've been playing each other?

3) What "call" (i.e. John Ward) will you still be able to recite word for word when you're 98yrs old and can't remember your wife's name?

and last... Name the Top 10 players in Tennessee Vols History. (yes I know how hard that is)

I appreciate the help guys and you can certainly have more than one answer on these.
 
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Birmingham said:
I'm in the thick of working on my next video, "The Third Saturday in October". I'd like to field a few questions from you guys to help in making it more about its title instead of an Alabama jerk off video.

Pertaining only to our annual game:
1) What is the single greatest victory on the Third Saturday in October?

2) What specific play (including the scenario surrounding it) do you consider to be the greatest and most defining moment in the hundred years we've been playing each other?

3) What "call" (i.e. John Ward) will you still be able to recite word for word when you're 98yrs old and can't remember your wife's name?

and last... Name the Top 10 players in Tennessee Vols History. (yes I know how hard that is)

I appreciate the help guys and you can certainly have more than one answer on these.
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#2 will likely be the first play of the 1995 meeting. That game marked the end of Bammer's dominance in the series over the previous 25 years and began their plummet into mediocrity while pushing UT up into the national spotlight and taking the upper hand. The first play was a cannon shot.

Top 10....tough call. Reggie White, Peyton Manning, Chuck Webb, George Cafego, Bob Johnson, Hank Lauricella, Doug Atkins....probably Steve DeLong, Bob Suffridge, and Chip Kell.
 
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Pertaining only to our annual game:
1) What is the single greatest victory on the Third Saturday in October?

For Tennessee it would be the 1928 game which put Tennessee football on the national map after Alabama's appearances in the Rose Bowl and the hiring of General Neyland.

Check into the 1959 tie during the second season under Bear Bryant and while Bowden Wyatt's career was beginning to fade as a sort of benchmark in how the series tends to go, at least for the last 50 years or so... with one program passing the other and running off several straight wins. While Tennessee did win the next game in the series to take a temporary one game lead... that to me is the symbolic beginning of the modern era rivalry. The 1965 tie is another example.

1993, and 1996 were good ones for featuring two strong teams in absurdly close contests.



2) What specific play (including the scenario surrounding it) do you consider to be the greatest and most defining moment in the hundred years we've played each other?

Gene McEver's returning of the opening kickoff in 1928... Fans were offering 5 to 1 on the game, and 3 to 1 that Tennessee wouldn't score.

3) What "call" (i.e. John Ward) will you still be able to recite word for word when you're 98yrs old and can't remember your wife's name?

I simply liked his intro to the Third Saturday, someone had a video with Sweet Home Alabama playing as the Vols ran through the T, with him saying, "Its the third satuday in october, its Tennessee, its Alabama, Its Football Time In Tennessee!".

and last... Name the Top 10 players in Tennessee Vols History. (yes I know how hard that is)

In no particular order...
Peyton Manning
Bob Suffridge
Hank Lauricella
Johnny Majors
Carl Pickens
Eric Berry
Tony Robinson
Condredge Holloway
George Cafego
Tee Martin/Al Wilson
 
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1) 1982, UT beats Bama for the first time in 11 years, 35-28. Going into the seventies, UT and Bama each had 23 wins in the series. Bama reeled off eleven straight going into '82. UT turned the Tide for a few years after that.

2) Manning's bootleg TD in '95. Signature play of the game that snapped another Bama winning streak and began a seven game streak for UT.

3) Ward's call in the '98 game after Peerless Price's 100 yard kickoff return to ice the game.

Top Ten Players:

1) Manning-held dozens of records and was the NCAA's winningest QB at the time of his graduation. Robbed of a Heisman.

2) Gene McEver- first great UT player. First UT all-american. College hall of famer. Would have won Heisman in '29 if it had existed(was generally considered the game's best player by the time of his graduation). Scored 130 points his sophomore year, a school record. To give it more perspective, the SEC single season record is 126 points in a season. The SEC would begin three years later. Never lost a game in his three years at UT as a part of three undefeated teams.

3) Doug Atkins- SEC Overall Player of the Quarter Century for 1950-1975. Two time consensus AA. Simply dominant DE. College and Pro Hall of Fame. Ten time All-Pro.

4) Reggie White-All time UT sack leader. All-American. 13 time All-Pro. Most decorated defensive player in football history, but Atkins' college career was better.

5) Bob Suffridge-One of the greatest lineman in college football history. Three time All-American. Hall of Famer. Anchored offensive and defensive lines of the the '38 national champs and '39 team that was last team in NCAA to go a regular season unscored upon.

6) Beattie Feathers- All-American HB. part of two undefeated Neyland teams. 7.7 yards per carry in his UT career. Went on to be the first 1,000 rushing yard season in NFL history in an era where it was rare for a great runner to get more than that in his career. Still holds RB yards per carry record in the NFL. NFL All Decade Team 1930s.

7) Hank Lauricella-Poster boy of arguably the greatest class in UT football history. Averaged school record 7.9 yards per carry in '51 season when he finished second in another controversial Heisman vote.

8) Bob Johnson- One of the best centers in NCAA history, he finished sixth in the Heisman voting and was picked #2 overall in the NFL draft. Two time AA, including a unanimous vote. Jacobs trophy winner.

9) Steve DeLong-Outland Trophy winner and two time AA. Greatest interior D lineman in school history.

10) Jackie Walker- This one is going to be a head scratcher to some, but I wanted to put a darkhorse in here. Walker was a two time AA Linebacker. I believe he was the first All American black player in SEC history, I could be wrong though. He redefined the LB position and was a precursor to the Tampa 2 Middle LB. He finished his career with NCAA records in interceptions and return yards by a linebacker and interception return TDs.

Hope all that helps.
 
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If the 07 Vols performance and body language on the sideline is any indicator I don't think Alabama is a rival anymore.

1. The greatest game was the 5 OT thriller a few years back.

2) 1993 David Palmer tying the game, also the scenario that would later surround it defines Bama to a T, (Bama forfeits because of NCAA violations)

3) "Parys is living the simple life in Knoxville" -Reece Davis

Top 10
Peyton Manning
Eric Berry
Travis Henry
Peerless Price
Al Wilson
Jerod Mayo
John Henderson
Jason Witten
Leonard Little
Terry Fair

this from my perspective 1993 to the present
 
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Don't forget to include the following info:

"People think I'm the greatest damn coach in the world," said the great Bear Bryant, "but Neyland taught me everything I know."

The Bear coached against Bob Neyland's Tennessee teams seven times and never beat him. "I never beat him," he said, "but I learned a lot from playing him."

:td:

Johnny Majors finished second in the Heisman voting in 1956.

PS: If you want to include Tennessee's most productive players after leaving UT, you have to list Travis (Big Daddy) Henry. So far, nine kids from nine different mothers and counting...
 
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Ok well there is also something you left out...The great plays over the years that changed the games...Chuck Colemans run to glory in 1982, johnny Jones long run in 83, Tony Robinsons 2 point conversion with a minute left in the game in 84...Dale jones INT in 85 with Bama driving for the winning FG...and of course Peytons bootleg..And on the other side...The blocked FG in 1990 that I still have nightmares about, the fumble through the end zone in 2005...And so many more...I love the UT/Bama rivalry, I have always ranked it up there with OU/Texas...Michigan/OSU...Many of our young fans think UF is our biggest rival and they might be the most important due to winning the SEC east but nothing gets my heart running faster than Bama week....It is and always will be in my heart THE biggest rivalry at UT....So much history...So many great games by both teams...Legendary coaches...Tradition
 
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