Though Tennessee has doubled up LSU in the history of this SEC East/ West division matchup, with the Vols having notched 20 wins of the 30 all-time matchups, it’s the Tigers currently riding a five-game winning streak.
To make matters to worse, the bookends of UT’s ongoing slide versus the Tigers, 2006 and 2017, each have its own special place in the blasphemous, lost-wandering-in-the-woods recent tenure of Volunteer football.
The ‘06 game saw Jamarcus Russell and the 7-3, 13th-ranked Tigers drop the 8th-ranked, previously 7-1 Vols that had already thumped top-10 ranked Cal in the first game of the season and managed to beat both UGA and ‘Bama in October.