Tennessee vs South Carolina: Remembering & Continuing

History is written by the winners, so the stories that will be told about this game will start on 3rd and 18 at the South Carolina 10 with five minutes to play. The Vols had been frustrating in the second half but were in it, down 35-28 and ready to get the ball back. And then "Third Down For What" became "Third Down for WHAT?!" as Dylan Thompson ran for 20 yards and an inexplicable first down. And on the very next play, Brandon Wilds gashed a vulnerable defense for 70 yards and the assumed back-breaker, 42-28 with 4:52 to play.

And then some of us went to bed. But over the next 4:52 and an overtime, Tennessee Football woke up in Columbia, South Carolina.

As we said later in the same story,…