KNOXVILLE — There aren't many moments in your life that you know, without a doubt, that you'll remember them for the rest of your days. Saturday night in Knoxville will live on in the hearts and memories of 100,000 fans in Neyland Stadium and countless thousands more in Tennessee and beyond. This 52-49 victory, this hard-won triumph over hated Alabama — this will live on forever in the minds of thousands.
, a single victory that unlocks so much more. Hooker should leap to the top of the Heisman conversation, and the Volunteers will loom large in the rear-view mirrors of Georgia and Ohio State. SEC championship, playoff berth, national championship … it's all in the picture now.
Hooker finished with 385 yards on 21-of-30 passing, with five touchdowns and that one, ultimately inconsequential, interception. Jalin Hyatt caught six passes, five of them for touchdowns. Any time you can hang half a century on an Alabama team, you’ve done a fine day’s work.demonstrated some impressive common sense, working the bar up and over an eight-foot fence and negotiating it through the steel girders that held up the northeast stands.
Alas, not every Tennessee drive ended in victory. Right as the crossbar reached Middle Drive outside the stadium, local law enforcement put an end to the fun, forcing the crew to drop the crossbar and disperse. One of the crossbar riders, a student covered in end-zone orange paint who gave his name as both “Alexander” and “Joseph” — “I don’t want to get arrested” — summed up the chaos. When asked what he’d wanted to do with the crossbar, he said, simply, “I don’t know.
Back inside the stadium, as carts blew the trash of thousands into the center of the field, the north goalposts sat in the southeast corner of the stadium. Fans posed by them like hunters with a trophy. At the other end of the stadium, others wrote their names and other messages on the still-standing orange upright. A few enterprising fans tore up some chunks of checkerboard turf before getting run off by security.
The south crossbar’s uprights fared better. They made their way to The Strip, circulating up and down Cumberland Avenue for an hour or so before the crowd guided them toward the Tennessee River.
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