It was the first season of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS), which saw the Tennessee Volunteers win the national championship, one year after star quarterback Peyton Manning left for the National Football League (NFL). After a scoreless first quarter, Tennessee's QB Tee Martin fired a 4-yard touchdown pass to FB Shawn Bryson for the Vols to open up an early 7–0 lead. First, Peyton Manning lost the Heisman Trophy. Florida State sophomore QB Chris Weinke was injured in Florida State's final ACC game of the regular season and did not participate in the championship game. Tennessee then defeated Auburn in the SEC title game on December 6. • 2001 Citrus Bowl Classic The two scores both occurred in the first 25 seconds of the second quarter. This game was televised on ABC to a national audience. Florida's greatness, combined with Tennessee's inability to beat them, really made the nation at large overlook how good Tennessee was during that same time period. Nebraska opened up a 7–0 lead after the first quarter and led 14–3 lead at halftime. They say it couldn't be done after losing players like Peyton Manning, Marcus Nash, Leonard Little, Bill Duff, Trey Teague, Billy Beron, Terry Fair, Cory Gaines, Jonathan Brown, Chris Hogue, Andy McCullough, Tori Noel, Steve Johnson and Robert Poole just to name a few. That was what we'd gained. In 1995 and 1996, the Vols lost to Florida in September, then beat everyone else in the SEC and had to hope the Gators lost twice along the way. These titles were selected through a points or a ratings system to determine the nation's top team. Do you have a blog? The Vols didn't play perfectly by any means, but they played well enough to win 30-29, capturing their first SEC Championship since 1990 and getting Peyton Manning his ring. The 98 team were truly undeniable, invincible national champions in every sense of the word. Get meaner. • 1979 Citrus Bowl Tennessee came into the game with an 11–1 record and the No. ...except it wasn't. With no teams upgrading from Division I-AA, the number of Division I-A schools was fixed at 112. To understand what happened in Knoxville in 1998, you have to remember both what we'd gained and what we'd lost. But under the new divisional format, the Vols' most important rivalry had become Florida, and just when the Alabama series got better, the Florida series got worse.
And in 1995 and 1996, Florida ran roughshod over the conference. or "Will Florida lose twice?". Tennessee defeated the Florida State Seminoles, 23–16, in the Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Arizona, to secure the inaugural BCS National Championship.
University of Tennessee Athletic Department. Illegal touching of a forward pass by an ineligible receiver is a five-yard penalty from the previous spot but no loss-of-down. The Vols would go on to capture a share of the SEC Championship in 1989 before winning it outright in 1990, and the run was on.
It was like the Gators weren't even giving us a chance. • 1951 Citrus Bowl Classic • 1990 Citrus Bowl Classic
The Vols, not the Gators, would be entering the 1998 season as the defending SEC Champions. Because the next year, it turned into the best thing that ever happened to Tennessee Football. Frost added a 9-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter to put the game away for Nebraska at 42–9 with under five minutes remaining. Tennessee walk-on Tim Sewell had a blocked punt. Every time one of my teams takes a real beating, I always think back to this game. That gave Tennessee confidence, and that confidence made a difference. Tennessee Volunteers 1998 National Champions Framed Knoxville News-Sentinel Tennessean Front Pages Custom framed front pages from the Knoxville News-Sentinel Tennessean newspapers dated January 5, 1999. • 1947 Citrus Bowl You knew about Jamal Lewis, but with Tee Martin having never started a game and no proven No. The teams were the Tennessee Volunteers and Florida State Seminoles. Get stronger. • 1986 Citrus Bowl • 1953 Citrus Bowl Classic As a matter of policy, Sports Reference only reports the results of games as played on the field. Even though Tennessee hadn't beaten Florida, they had the rings. • 1986 Citrus Bowl The 1998 Orange Bowl was played on January 2, 1998, and served as the Bowl Alliance's designated national championship game for the 1997 season. • 1974 Citrus Bowl The first run of the Bowl Championship Series was not without controversy as Kansas State finished third in the final BCS standings, but was not invited to a BCS bowl game. Here are the best images from the 1998 season, and have over 200 photos in the slider.
10 years ago in late June, we didn't know what we were going to see when the Vols hit the field in September, but we knew it would be something new. Find out more. …
Tennessee was beating everybody...except Florida. • 1945 Citrus Bowl • 1996 Citrus Bowl • 1999 Citrus Bowl # NCAA Tennessee Volunteers 1998 NCAA Football Champions collectible hat - Vols . • 1969 Citrus Bowl Classic
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• 1957 Citrus Bowl • 2016 Citrus Bowl Once again, both teams failed to score for an entire quarter. 3 ranking. Subscribe to our Free Newsletter, This Month in Sports ReferenceFind out when we add a feature or make a change. • 1982 Citrus Bowl These teams were chosen based upon a BCS poll, combining the AP Poll, the Coaches Poll, and a computer component. Tennessee finished at 11–2; this was the last loss by the Volunteers until September 18, 1999. Editor’s note: Welcome to Tennessee Week. SOS: 4.42 (26th of 112) . Since for five straight years we could only ask the second one from 1993-1997, the answer kept being "no," and Florida kept playing in Atlanta, while the Vols kept playing in Orlando. Outside of 1996 and a fluke loss to Memphis, all you see are ones in the regular season loss column up there. • 1940 Citrus Bowl Also, Tulane went undefeated, but finished 10th in the BCS standings and was not invited to a BCS bowl because of their low strength of schedule. Al Wilson was an All-America selection at linebacker and placekicker Jeff Hall became UT's and the SEC's all-time leading scorer. And something new is exactly what we got. 1 spot after the Alabama-Birmingham game and proved equal to the task by defeating Arkansas, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State and Florida State en route to the national crown. • 1984 Citrus Bowl Pound sign (#) denotes national championship game. All rights reserved. Nebraska was ranked second in the final AP Poll, behind the also-undefeated Rose Bowl champion Michigan Wolverines. It's the only neutral site game I've ever been to where the crowd was truly 50-50. Now sit back and relax as you look at the UT Vols Slider, and listen to your favorite songs on the UT Vols Jukebox, and remember, where you were, at the time these pictures were taken. • 1990 Citrus Bowl Classic The team of destiny came with a dream, and a vision, and beat all odds to become the 1998 SEC and national champions.
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