Normally, a 35-13 loss wouldn’t have much to celebrate. But Tennessee football was in the game with the No. 1 ranked team in the nation on the road until about midway through the fourth quarter before things unraveled.
The Vols had made it a one-possession game with five minutes left in the third quarter and were a bad penalty away from getting the ball back at that point. Meanwhile, they managed to get one inch away from making it a one-possession game again in the fourth quarter before a fumble that was returned the other way when down 28-13.