Flashback: 2007 Kentucky-Tennessee

Best game of this series imo.

UK had upset #1 LSU earlier in the season, but overall I'd say that they underachieved due to injuries; should've been much better than 8-5. UK had Andre Woodson, Rafael Little, Derrick Lock, Keenan Burton, Jacob Tamme and Stevie Johnson on offense plus Wesley Woodyard and Trevard Lindley on defense.

Tennessee was an extremely bipolar team: they waxed Georgia and Arkansas in Knoxville, but were absolutely obliterated by rebuilding Florida and Bama teams on the road. Erik Ainge was a good college QB, Arian Foster was a stud (though underused) and Eric Berry anchored the defense. However, I remember thinking as an outside observer that Phat Phil was living were living on borrowed time; talent level seemed to be declining and the Cutcliffe and Chavis stuff was getting stale. The VOLS finished 10-4, this was their last 10-win season to date.

The VOLS were playing for a trip to Atlanta since they had the tiebreaker over UGA. Kentucky was playing to end a 24 year losing streak to UT.


Tennessee jumped out to a 24-7 lead with some nifty playcalling and UK's unusually bad offense. Then the Wildcats stormed back in epic fashion; unfortunately for them they could only tie the game at 31 and send it to OT after being at the UT 5-yard line down 31-28.

The game ended after a wild 4 OT periods, including Tennessee blocking a 17-yard game-winner by UK. The VOLS finally scored and converted a 2 pt conversion, then stopped UK's own conversion attempt to end the game.

This game had pretty massive repercussions: I have little doubt that UGA would've curbstomped LSU in Atlanta (VOLS lost to LSU's backup QB) and possibly ended Les Miles' career after another disappointing loss. The Dawgs probably would have ended their NC drought against a rebuilding OSU in NOLA. Fulmer didn't save his job in the long run, but bought another season which ended in disaster and him finally being canned.

Great watch even with poor quality