re: The Alabama vs Tennessee "rivalry"

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we won in . . . 2005.

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No you didn't. NCAA operatives traveled back in time and wiped that off the books.

So like I said, 10 of 11 from 1994 to 2006

I didnt. read slowly

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Fine...then nobody won. Don't count it as a UT win buddy boy.

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I didn't. Learn to read.

U mad

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U mad

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Your shtick would have been ok about a week ago. In the current board environment you should probably focus on being smart, funny, or clever. Because the bullshite canned stuff like U mad hahaha isn't going over any more. Friendly advice.

Dude...the game was played on the field just because it's not on the record book ,you can't say..."it didn't happen". It happened,Bama won. Get over it. Here I'll help refresh your memory.

October 23, 2005 was the fourth Saturday in October of that year. Nevertheless, it was a day to remember.

After three quarters of play, Alabama led 3-0. The Volunteer defense was making a stand against the sputtering offense of the Crimson Tide, holding them to under 180 yards of total offense for three and two-thirds quarters.

The Volunteers tied the game with 11:32 remaining in the fourth quarter on a 32 yard field goal by James Wilhoit.

Through the middle of the fourth quarter, there had been only one turnover in the game, an interception by the Tennessee defense. Croyle had been sacked six times and Ken Darby had under 60 yards rushing for the game.

With just over nine minutes left in the game, Tennessee took possession on their own 47-yard line. The UT offense proceeded to drive the ball down the throat of the highly ranked Alabama defense.

Rick Clausen began the drive with a slant pass complete to Chris Hannon for 15 yards and a first down on the Alabama 38-yard line.

Three consecutive rushing plays to Arian Foster over left tackle, right end and right guard, moved the ball to the Alabama 27-yard line with just over six minutes to play.

Rudy Griffin, Roman Harper and Juwan Simpson stood in the gaps for the Tide but the Volunteer offense continued to push forward.

On the fifth play from scrimmage, Gerald Riggs took the handoff from Clausen and rushed over the left end for 24 yards before he was brought down on a game saving tackle by Simeon Castille.

The large gain left the Volunteers on the Alabama three yard line.

Riggs was injured on the play and freshman Cory Anderson took over at the halfback position, alongside Arian Foster.

It was a sight that was just too familiar to Alabama fans.

After having led for three quarters and fighting valiantly throughout the fourth, Alabama had it's back to the wall with little time to spare. The Big Orange Machine was about to put the game out of reach with a late score.

On the next series, UT committed two egregious mistakes that would result in negative yards. First, a false start moved the ball from the three yard line to the Alabama nine. On the third play of the series, seventh of the drive, Clausen attempted a sideline pass as he was being pursued by the Alabama defense.

When he released the ball, Clausen was over the line of scrimmage resulting in a five yard penalty and loss of down. That made it third down and 15 from the Alabama 15-yard line.

Tennessee had one more play up their sleeve and they intended to score a touchdown.

On third and goal, Clausen completed a screen to running back Cory Anderson. Anderson, substituting for the injured Riggs, had blocking up front as Alabama looked unprepared for the play to the freshman. Red jerseys were falling all around the Tennessee back who rambled toward the goal.

Seemingly out of nowhere, Roman Harper hit Anderson with perfect form, jarring the ball loose at the four yard line. The ball squirted out of the young running backs arms and through the right side of end zone as Simeon Castille was in hot pursuit.

The Volunteers had moved the ball 53 yards on eight plays in four minutes and fifteen seconds. They had gained one-fifth of the 253 total yards for the entire game in that eight play series and were standing on the brink of victory. The bone-jarring hit by Roman Harper breathed new life into the Alabama team.

The sold out crowd of 81,018 inside the confines of Bryant Denny took the decibel meter to an entirely new level.

The misfortune for the Vols gave the ball to Alabama on the 20-yard line with 5:08 left on the game clock. For the next two plays, it seemed that Alabama would be satisfied to run the clock out and take the game to overtime.

Unfortunately, the busted running plays took very little time off the clock and Alabama was looking at third and eight from their own 22 yard line.

On third down, Shula called a play that was very uncharacteristic of the young head coach. It was a courageous play call that show maturation over the three years at the helm, and confidence in his playmakers.

Though he had been sacked six times, and had hit the turf countless more, Croyle dropped back and delivered a pass on the money down the right sideline to a streaking D.J. Hall.

Despite the excellent coverage, stride for stride, by the UT corner, the ball landed right in Hall's bread basket. He was taken down immediately by the defender but the play resulted in a 43 yard gain and a first down on the UT 35-yard line.

New legs and new life in the Alabama backfield resulted in another first down after two plays.

Then, on the ensuing first down, Ken Darby scampered 11 yards and nearly broke free for a touchdown that would have sealed the win for Alabama, but Kevin Simon forced Darby out of bounds.

Three plays later, Brodie Croyle moved the ball to the center of the field setting up an attempt for Jamie Christensen. Christensen had just helped the Tide to victory with a last second field goal one week earlier against the Rebels of Ole Miss.

With 00:18 on the clock, Alabama lined up for the kick. Without hesitation, "Money" put the 34 yard field goal attempt through the uprights for the winning score.

You really couldn't. A little over two years ago a member of your fan base was so fricking mad they vandalized trees.

That's funny, when I click on the ESPN recap all it says is Bama gave improper benefits to its players leading to Gerald Riggs Jr. rushing for 450 yards and 7 touchdowns on route to a 56-0 vacting by Bama. Good article, though.

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Except for the fact, that actual statistics show that, indeed, the pace of the offense did change after the USCe game.

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What you typed does not warrant an except for the fact and I have no idea what you are trying to say. Let me say this, though, if you are trying to say the majority of the problems were caused by LITERALLY anything other than gimp shoulder and Kyle, save your bandwidth.