Missed extra points good kickers were hard to come by in the 1920s. Florida was very fast in 1928 and I believe finished 8-1. Tennessee watered down Shields-Watkins Field for a week before the game.
Comparison of the 1928 Georgia Tech and Tennessee football teams in the regular season:
GT 1928
VMI W 13-0
Tulane W 12-0
Notre Dame W 13-0
North Carolina W 26-7
Oglethorpe W 32-7
Vanderbilt W 19-7
Alabama W 33-13
Auburn W 51-0
Georgia W 20-6
Tennessee 1928 known as "The Flamin'...
Yeah GT under Paul Johnson has gotten very good players out of Tennessee. It would be cool for GT to start playing UT home and home like in the 1950s-1980s.
I think the coach who follows Nick Satan will win but he wont win enough to keep up with the expectations Bammer fans had with Saban and he will be fired or resign after 4 seasons.
Tennessee played in two Rose Bowls losing 14-0 to USC in the 1940 Rose Bowl and 25-0 to USC in the 1945 Rose Bowl. They almost went to the 1929 Rose Bowl but fell out of that possibility when they tied Kentucky 0-0 and finished the season 9-0-1. The 1928 Tennessee team beat Alabama 15-13 while...
(Stanford also has a hole in 2018, by the way *hint hint*)
It would be interesting to do a home and home with Georgia State playing one of the games in Turner Field.
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