I love Tee and all the guys on that 1997 team. It was hardly the best Tennessee team Ive ever seen but somehow they just produced magic that season.
But its categorically wrong and just downright ignorant to say that was the only team in modern history to exhibit even one minute speck of relevance. Thats just not true. 1985, 1989, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001. All of those teams were very much locally, regionally and nationally relevant, no matter how you slice it....unless youre trying to argue that unless you win a national title, your team cant exhibit even one minute speck of relevance....youre surely not saying that, are you?