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Third Saturday Memories - 1983


As Joel mentioned in his post this morning, the only Volunteer solace between winless streaks of 11 and 9 years against the Tide came from 1982-1985, when the Vols won four in a row.  They beat the Bear in his final season in 1982, and in year one post-Bear, Johnny Majors took an unranked Vol squad to Birmingham to face the #11 Tide.  Alabama had a ten point second half lead before the Vols rallied to tie it, and with three minutes to play Munford, TN's own Johnnie Jones wrote his name into the legacy of The Third Saturday in October: