UT's most embarrassing defeats?

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HangmanPage said:
Not really lol I mean Kentucky is getting a lot of national praise and has been for 3 years. This isn't 2002 and the trajectory of the programs have been going 2 different way for over 5 years. Btw you don't need to act like a fool. Its football. Calm down baby boy.
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Trash program
 
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Majors always seemed to have some duds...but fair enough to him, he'd pull in some surprises when he was building...ND, Bama, etc before a tank to Duke or Rutgers, etc. Don't think KY was most embarrassing...I'd say the way we lost may put it in the most surprising category. KY is a decent team just like we are. Look at the jumbled mess in the middle of 2-2 SEC teams right now. At the end of the day, the 2 pick 6's flipped the script on the game and we didn't recover once it started snowballing. BTW, it seems like every time a legend comes in and talks to the team, we end up tanking...maybe no more guest speakers.
 
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Bigun said:
And yet with all that, they couldn't beat Auburn or Ole Miss? Are you excusing a 27 point loss to KY?
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Those Auburn-KY and Ole Miss-KY games were close. Like I said there won't ever be any separation between these programs. You are gonna win some and lose some anymore. Plus 2 years ago they blew out a 10 win UK team when they were better. You just never know.
 
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Even UK’s better teams should not blow us out in Neyland Stadium. Especially considering the talent differential.

Pruitt wants to take our program to the next level? Start with the teams you’re supposed to beat first.
 
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Volsfaninva917 said:
Trash program
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We can agree to disagree theres a reason they have the 2 highest graded defensive players in the country and the highest graded o line as well as the 19th ranked defense.

VolFreakJosh said:
Even UK’s better teams should not blow us out in Neyland Stadium. Especially considering the talent differential.

Pruitt wants to take our program to the next level? Start with the teams you’re supposed to beat first.
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Theres only one program that any of the middling programs should beat every year in the SEC.
 
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MeanOrange said:
I know VN can add more but here is four that standout to me:
1) Chattanooga 1959 (my first UT game).
2) Georgia State 2019.
3) Kentucky 2020.
4) Wyoming (forgot the year).

Guess who was the HC for two of those games.
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Kentucky isn't even top 10


(in no order)

Georgia St - 2019
Memphis St - 1996
Wyoming - 2008 (however, understandable with the Fulmer thing)
Vanderbilt - 2016
Vanderbilt - 2012
Arkansas - 1992
South Carolina - 1992
Alabama - 1990
Washington St - 1988
Army - 1986
Virginia - 1980
UGA/USC - 1980
Rutgers - 1979
North Texas - 1975
Ole Miss - 1969
Chattanooga - 1959
Vanderbilt - 1954
Vanderbilt - 1909
 
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HangmanPage said:
We can agree to disagree theres a reason they have the 2 highest graded defensive players in the country and the highest graded o line as well as the 19th ranked defense.



Theres only one program that any of the middling programs should beat every year in the SEC.
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So it’s unrealistic to expect a win against a team we’ve owned the past decade? If that’s the case then we might as well just be Vandy of the SEC.

Forget about competing against the big dogs of the SEC.
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
Kentucky isn't even top 10


(in no order)

Georgia St - 2019
Memphis St - 1996
Wyoming - 2008 (however, understandable with the Fulmer thing)
Vanderbilt - 2016
Vanderbilt - 2012
Arkansas - 1992
South Carolina - 1992
Alabama - 1990
Washington St - 1988
Army - 1986
Virginia - 1980
UGA/USC - 1980
Rutgers - 1979
North Texas - 1975
Ole Miss - 1969
Chattanooga - 1959
Vanderbilt - 1954
Vanderbilt - 1909
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Why is Alabama 1990 seen as such a bad loss by so many? It was before my time, and looking at their schedule that year they didn’t seem to be horrible.
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
So it’s unrealistic to expect a win against a team we’ve owned the past decade? If that’s the case then we might as well just be Vandy of the SEC.

Forget about competing against the big dogs of the SEC.
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No I'm not saying that I'm just saying people have to honest with themselves about the standing of the programs in the SEC. Things have changed over the previous 2 decades.
 
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Rockytoptalker said:
Why is Alabama 1990 seen as such a bad loss by so many? It was before my time, and looking at their schedule that year they didn’t seem to be horrible.
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You almost had to be there . . . Bama was coming off a coaching change and was 2-3 and had beaten absolutely nobody. We were #3 in the nation and would've gone to #1 had we won the game. We put on an offensive performance that was just heinous, and Alabama did even worse. We had a 50 yard FG to win it and it got blocked and squirted backwards like it was shot out of a cannon about 35 yards. Bama ran a play or two and kicked their own 50 yarder. At the time it was about the most unlucky end to a game I had ever seen. Little did I know that Tennessee football would top that feat repeatedly.
 
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Rockytoptalker said:
Why is Alabama 1990 seen as such a bad loss by so many? It was before my time, and looking at their schedule that year they didn’t seem to be horrible.
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We were probably 30 points better and in the top 4 in the country and would've played for the NC if we had beaten them (we already tied and lost by 6 pts the other two teams who played for the NC - Colorado and Notre Dame). We were stubborn and game out super super conservative. It was 6-6 and we lined up for a long FG that we had played for at the end instead of trying to move the ball down field and it was blocked probably 30-40 yds backwards and Bama kicked a long FG to win.

They were a bad team that had gotten beat by Southern Miss and others...they werent even a top 25 team
 
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'Boro-vol said:
...because he never should have been a Head Coach. His talent is as a world class DC.
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It's what this administration does. I don't get it either. They hire on the cheap and then it derails, paying mountains of cash to the guy they shouldn't have hired. They've wasted more money hiring ham and eggers than if they'd just bit the bullet and hire a good coach that's done it before. Butch Jones came from a weak conference and lived off Brain Kelly's recruits. Doofus was a awful hire. Pruitt looks to be no different at this point. His offenses have been offensive for 3 years running.
 
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GAVol said:
You almost had to be there . . . Bama was 2-3 and had beaten absolutely nobody. We were #3 in the nation and would've gone to #1 had we won the game. We put on an offensive performance that was just heinous, and Alabama did even worse. We had a 50 yard FG to win it and it got blocked and squirted backwards like it was shot out of a cannon about 35 yards. Bama ran a play or two and kicked their own 50 yarder. At the time it was about the most unlucky end to a game I had ever seen. Little did I know that Tennessee football would top that feat repeatedly.
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Thanks for the explanation. I can see why now, there’s nothing worse than falling flat against a rival- as demonstrated Saturday.
 
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SugarCC said:
Memphis 1996, and it's not even close; Georgia St doesn't even compare.
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Memphis would have lost that in replay world the kickoff TD returners knee was down in that spin out of a tackle. No replay to overturn although everybody knew looking at replays refs just said oh well we missed that one but by the rules we lost and Manning was our QB. At least games like this pushed for replay overturns.
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
Even UK’s better teams should not blow us out in Neyland Stadium. Especially considering the talent differential.

Pruitt wants to take our program to the next level? Start with the teams you’re supposed to beat first.
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Yeah, but does he want that?
 
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LittleCat said:
Don't really get why the UK loss this year is viewed so embarrassing? More for how the Vols played than the actual opponent? I feel like no matter what some UT fans will just always think UK is terrible and deserves to lose by 50. But UK was a fringe top 25 team on paper with a lot of returning players. The first couple games we looked sluggish and were trying to adjust to a new offense post Bowden/Snell years. But honestly on paper I thought we matched up decent against UT. For once Kentucky didn't "Kentucky" themselves and instead it was UT killing themselves.

This year's loss is way less embarrassing than the Ga St or whatever year UK won with a wr at qb. Just my two cents though.
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because it was the 1880's since yall won by that large of margin. That's pretty bad.
 
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