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What's your favorite Tennessee-Alabama game?

Survey time! What's your favorite Tennessee-Alabama game? Give me a few and tell me why they're special. I'm posting this question over at Roll Bama Roll, too, so head over there to get the other perspective.

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I'm interested in all answers, but I'm especially interested in what the old timers think.
Go Vols!

by Joel on Apr 14, 2008 7:39 PM CDT   0 recs

Count me as a newbie.
My favorite's the one two years ago.  It's the only UT/UA game I've been to, and the seats were perfect (50-yd. line, upper deck, second row).  UT pulled it out late in a game that was much closer than predicted, and the fans went absolutely nuts.  I still remember the blasted-out look on the face of the guy who was jumping around so happily he nearly knocked me over the rail.  (He made it up with a huge man-hug and chest bump.)

by hooper on Apr 14, 2008 9:15 PM CDT   0 recs

And count me very interested
in Smokey's answer.  So what is the Old Hound Dawg's favorite game?

by hooper on Apr 14, 2008 9:15 PM CDT   0 recs

Recent History
1998: UT-35 Bama-18
This game remains special to me for no other reason than it was a key victory in UT's MNC season.  

1999: UT-21 Bama-7
There was an incredible amount of hype surrounding this game as it was the first time the series was played in Tuscaloosa in 69 years.  There's no better satisfaction than totally ruining your hated-rival's "homecoming".

2003: UT-51 Bama-43 (5OT)
9 total points at the half, 40 total points at the end of regulation, and 54 total points in 5 OTs!  It was a grueling battle all game long, with both teams refusing to loose.  The C. Clausen/B. Croyle battle was on, with both QBs stepping up their games and making the HUGE plays when they were needed the most.  An instant classic.  Additionally it capped a 6-game winning streak on Bama's home fields [B'ham (93 & 95) & 'Loosa (97, 99, 01, & 03].

by Aerobab on Apr 14, 2008 9:33 PM CDT   0 recs

1995 Peyton breaks the streak.
Im 32 NOW and i was enrolled at Auburn (UT didn't have a landscape architecture program) in 1995 when my bammer buddy and his family invited me to the game.
9 years of frustration and pain had made it for a UT fan similar to how bama is now feeling in relation to Auburn.
If i remember correctly,  Peyton connected on a little quick out on the first play from scrimmage for a long touchdown and the vols romped in, my gosh it was still legion field i guess, birmingham.
I taunted the student section and the rest of the bama section i was in but nobody popped me...they were all in shock that they could still lose to the Vols.
So fun.

by guilded on Apr 14, 2008 11:05 PM CDT   0 recs

Call me an Oldtimer
My Father took me to my first game in Neyland in 1968.  This was the year the east side upper deck opened, and the north end zone still had the bleachers.  This was also the first time the Tennessee band did the famous circle drill at halftime (this game was ABC's game of the week).  We went all over campus, and we even saw the newly renovated Stokley Center. Karl Kremser kicked a then record 54 yd FG, and Jim Weatherford blocked a late Alabama FG attempt to preserve a 10-9 victory.  I can remember this like it was yesterday.

by tennmark on Apr 15, 2008 6:59 AM CDT   0 recs

1996 in Knoxville
The 1st half was tight with TN mostly grinding it out on the ground thanks to Jay Grahm and a hard-nosed offensive line.  Alabama must have decided at halftime that they would concentrate on stopping the run.  A drawn in Bama "D" could only watch as Peyton Manning popped a short pass over the middle to Marcus Nash who sailed clear down the middle of the field about 75 yards and a TD.  That was followed later by a long run from scrimmage by Jay Grahm to seal the deal.  
BIG ORANGE 20, little crimson 13.
Vinnie Testaverde is always remembered for Tennessee kicking his ass.

by RevOrange on Apr 15, 2008 9:33 AM CDT   0 recs

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