Which UT loss hurt you most in your lifetime?

#101
#101
Sadly, the loses don't hurt much any more. I almost expect them.

The loss to Memphis loss is probably the worst. LSU in '01 a close 2nd. Like someone else said earlier, the Gafney non catch really pissed me off for so many reasons.
 
#106
#106
Pretty much ditto from everybody

2001 LSU
1996 Memphis
2000 Gaffney
Hobnail boot UGA 2001
2015 Okl
Alot of UF games, 10-9 stands out as does 4th and 18.

A couple memorable losses for me:
14 men on the field LSU, I had the flu and not the chickensheet stuff the Dr says everybody has but the real deal in bed 6 days thinking I'm going to die flu. Was just getting a little better and when we won, or so I thought, I jumped up and ran into the living room screaming to my wife that we won. Even seen on the t.v. in there on the bottom of the screen on ESPN it showed "final" but when I limped back to our bedroom it was being reviewed and I counted 14 men. I layed back down, watched them score and was back to being sick. Horrible feeling.

2007? Bama game, I think Sabans 1st year, my wife's Bama fan family was over to watch the game with me and they onside kicked the kickoff and proceeded to kill us. I listened to them cheer and cheer and laugh at me being sulled up till I exploded. I kicked everybody out, threw a bunch of pigs in a blanket at my BIL's truck, acted like a brat, bad. I still catch hell over that and I divorced her.
 
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#108
#108
Hands down it was the 2001 SEC Championship Game in 2001. We had just beaten Florida in Gainesville to secure the Eastern Division Championship in the game that had been postponed due to 9/11.

UT came into the game needing only to beat LSU, then coached by Saban, to play for the National Championship in the Rose Bowl against Miami. UT would have been the first SEC team to play in the Rose Bowl in 50 years.

Had Fulmer won that game, he would have cemented himself as one of the best coaches ever. As it was, we had a lead at halftime, knocked out LSU's starting QB & RB, & still let Saban come back on Chavis' defense & beat us.

The UT Alumni Association gave out Big Orange roses at the pep rally before the game outside the Georgia Dome. I already had my reservations made in Pasadena & was looking forward to seeing the Pride of the Southland Band march in the Tournament of Roses Parade.

Looking back, Fulmer should have been fired after that loss. The program declined precipitously after that & still hasn't recovered. If Pruitt can't bring it back, Fulmer will be out the door with him, fired for the 2nd time.

Everything was at stake that nite in Atlanta. We had all the tools & talent to play for a National Championship twice in 4 years. We failed miserably.

Had we gotten the chance to play Miami, who's to say we wouldn't have done to them in the 2002 Rose Bowl what we did to them in the 1986 Sugar Bowl? We also lost the chance for another SEC Championship that nite.

All in all, it was the most disappointing loss I've ever witnessed, & I saw my first UT game in person when I was 9 years old in 1966, including many of them on the road, as well as at Neyland.

Another disappointing loss for me was the 1968 Orange Bowl when a furious comeback by Dewey Warren, the Swamp Rat, from a 19-0 halftime deficit against Oklahoma, fell 2 points short when an FG that I still believe was good was called outside the uprights.

The most exciting wins? That 1986 Sugar Bowl win over Miami has to rank high. Another was the 41-14 win with Peyton Manning over Bama in 1995 at Legion Field in Birmingham. Tony Robinson's win at home over #1 Auburn & Bo Jackson, 38-20, is a keeper, too.



LMU-Law UT-Love said:
What UT loss was the hardest to swallow for you personally during your life?
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#110
SmokyVolOne said:
Another disappointing loss for me was the 1968 Orange Bowl when a furious comeback by Dewey Warren, the Swamp Rat, from a 19-0 halftime deficit against Oklahoma, fell 2 points short when an FG that I still believe was good was called outside the uprights.
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We got robbed, that kick was good from where we were sitting.
 
#111
#111
Favorites wins for me was the come back against Notre Dame somewhere around 90. 86 Sugar bowl. The '92 FL game was awesome too.
 
#113
#113
The
UTK said:
Too many to count in just the past 10 years.

2015 Oklahoma. That first half, it really felt like we were “back”

2015 UF. Dominated them the whole game and was looking like a nice bounce back after blowing the OU game. You know what happened.

2011 Kentucky. Just embarrassing.

2016 Vanderbilt. All we had to do is beat Vandy to go to the dang Sugar Bowl.
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The 2015 UF loss I bagged up everything I mean everything I owned Tennessee related in a trash bag and threw it in a closet. I was devastated.
 
#114
#114
2001 SEC championship game. I'm not sure, but I think we are still the only overwhelming favorite to have lost it. It cost us a shot at another NC. 1990 season as a whole. Bama, Tied by Auburn, Tied eventual NC Colorado. We were loaded that year!
 
#115
#115
2001 SECCG vs LSU. Sat opposite end zone from LSU band. Every time Mauck somehow successfully ran only one of three plays he knew and kept converting first downs, the LSU band would play “Geaux Tigers". ****ing hate that song.
 
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#118
#118
1995
62-37 @ UF

Not the loss with the biggest impact like 01 SECcg, but I was sitting in the UF student section with my GF at the time. Not a fun second half.:(

1982
Worlds Fair vs Bama 35-28

12 yrs old and first win I remember against Bama.
 
#119
#119
LMU-Law UT-Love said:
What UT loss was the hardest to swallow for you personally during your life?
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Every. Single. One.

But to answer you directly....SEC Championship Game against LSU in 2001 which in my opinion changed the course of UT Football's future for the last 17 years.
 
#120
#120
BigOrangeTrain said:
I feel you. But in a way I am glad we lost that. Would you really wanted us playing Miami that year?
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Uhhhh, do you want to recant this statement? How could you ever be glad that you lost a game that would have resulted in playing for the national championship? We would have been VERY competitive with that Miami team as Tennessee showed how it destroyed a decent Michigan team.
 
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#121
#121
lukeneyland said:
Chuck Webb. Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I grew up hearing stories about him.
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The ol' Cobb Webb attack......Still ticked that Cobb was inhaling frontal lobe enhancement powder causing suspension for the Bama game 89
 
#122
#122
I'll make you guys feel better.

My most painful loss as a Gamecock fan was the 2013 upset in Neyland. Indeed, this is the most painful single play in my 63 years of being a Gamecock.

4th down and long. Quarterback decked as he releases the ball. A perfect pass by a usually inaccurate qb was in the only spot it could have been completed because it was (almost) perfectly defended. The catch was outstanding but North was a very good receiver. Can't whine about the catch, it's the pass that haunts me.

Win that game and we win the East to play Auburn in the SECCG. Win that and we play FSU.

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#123
#123
2001 LSU championship game. Zero excuse to lose that game and in hindsight was the beginning of our decline. It's been almost 20 years since we've been relevant.
 
#124
#124
2001 Georgia, and the SEC championship. Seemed like that's when things really started to decline. 99 against Arkansas I believe it was, anyway the year after the Stoerner fumble. I was living there then and had been hearing all year how they were gonna pay us back. They did, and I caught hell over it!
 
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