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Top 10 Passing Performances in Tennessee History
In an attempt to place what we saw from Tyler Bray on Saturday in the pantheon of great UT passing performances, here's one man's opinion on the best of the best. There's no formula here, though I will say quality of opponent certainly counts. And I'm only dealing with what I've seen, so with...
RBR Reading Room: Third Saturday in October
Since the expansion of the Southeastern Conference in 1992, The Third Saturday in October is a name without a tether in reality. Rather than designate a specific weekend on the fall football schedule when the Alabama Crimson Tide and Tennessee Volunteers would meet on the gridiron it has simply...
The Remarkable Consistency of Peyton Manning
I was doing some browsing around on the college football section of sports-reference.com, apropos of nothing, this morning. I was looking at some Heisman winners and finalists from the past, and that eventually led me to Peyton Manning's page. One thing jumped out at me more than anything else: the...
Excerpt from Those Guys Have All the Fun: Chris Fowler on Woodson & Manning
As we've been working through our Greatest Vol Villains bracket and featured Charles Woodson in a quarterfinal matchup today, an oral history of ESPN - Those Guys Have All the Fun - was just released by James Andrew Miller & Tom Shales. This thing is a 745 page beast that I'm very much looking...
UFC 117 Preview: How Does Anderson Silva Compare To Other Athletes Currently At the Pinnacle of Their Sports?
If anyone disputed Anderson Silva's place as the top pound-for-pound fighter in MMA over the past couple of years, their position became almost indefensible with Fedor Emelianenko's loss to Fabricio Werdum. Silva has been invincible for the past five years across two weight classes (both of which...
20 Losses in 20 Years #9 - Where Only Gators Get Out Alive
How to build a rivalry from scratch: Steve Spurrier became the head coach at the University of Florida in 1990. He won a Heisman Trophy with the Gators in 1966, but only after he played quarterback for Science Hill in Johnson City, Tennessee. In his first trip to Neyland Stadium as Florida's head...
20 Losses in 20 Years: 11-15
Continuing our series of The 20 Most Heartbreaking Losses in the Last 20 Years 15. 2005: #5 Alabama 6 - #17 Tennessee 3 (Tuscaloosa) After Alabama didn't lose to Tennessee from 1986-1994, Tennessee won nine of ten against the Tide from 1995-2004. The Third Saturday had been moved back to...
The 20 Most Heartbreaking Losses in the Last 20 Years: Intro & 16-20
Last year, we spent six months in the offseason telling the stories of The 50 Best Games of the Fulmer Era. It was our fond farewell to our coach of 17 years, and a chance for all of us to relive moments and memories from our favorite wins. But the story of Tennessee Football has both its ups and...
Inexperienced QBs at Tennessee: Feast and Famine
With Nick Stephens leaving the program, the Vols will start a brand new face at quarterback this fall for the first time since 2004, when true freshmen Erik Ainge and Brent Schaeffer split snaps against UNLV. And whether it's Matt Simms or Tyler Bray, Tennessee will go with a guy who's never...
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