Every Heartbreaking Tennessee Football Loss (2009 - Present)

If someone ever asks what it's like to be a Vol fan, just show them this video.
Any games left off this video that you think should be mentioned? Comment down below with your most memorable heartbreak.
Contents of this video
0:00 And so it begins
0:50 2009 Tennessee vs Alabama
2:59 2010 Tennessee vs LSU
5:22 2010 Tennessee vs North Carolina
8:26 2013 Tennessee vs Georgia
11:21 2014 Tennessee vs Florida
12:19 2014 Tennessee vs Missouri
17:13 2015 Tennessee vs Oklahoma
20:31 2015 Tennessee vs Florida
23:29 2015 Tennessee vs Alabama
25:10 2016 Tennessee vs Texas A&M
30:00 2017 Tennessee vs Florida
33:47 2019 Tennessee vs Georgia State
35:03 2019 Tennessee vs BYU
40:20 2021 Tennessee vs Ole Miss
45:34 2021 Tennessee vs Purdue
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[@Washy0]

As a Vol fan I can tell you the real heartbreak is having to listen to Gary Danielson for 90% of this video...

[@Babylion2311]

Jesus saves

[@BarbaraRay-m4r]

Nah its the constant and never ending trauma of L's.

[@Washy0]

@@BarbaraRay-m4rforget my comment, just snatched a natty in baseball. Vols by a million🍊

[@bernie7044]

@Washy0 LOL, I know exactly what you mean. It's like he brings a dark cloud with him everytime he does a Tennessee game. I would love to see UTs record with him and with everyone else. I used to feel the same way with Brent Musburger and Florida. It was like every time he was doing one of our games, we lost. It didn't matter who we were playing. If Musberger was doing our game, I would just wait on bad crap to happen.

[@adambum28]

Maybe one day here soon we can look back on videos like this and say... Remember when Tennessee football used to be awful? Now we're on top of the world! Can't keep us down forever, stay strong and go Vols!!

[@michaelhoward6076]

Big “maybe”

[@Dr.Music77]

Here we are #6 and 5-0!

[@VolFan9804]

What if I told you we’d beat Alabama and be 6-0 right now?

[@farewellcruelworld]

What if I told that Tennessee would beat 4 ranked opponents out of 6, including Alabama, setting up and almost guaranteed National Big, and would most likey meet Georgia 8 - 0, pitting the two best teams in the country in a titanic clash.

[@robbyosborne9708]

@@VolFan9804 God speed there!

[@garrisonbrumblay9137]

The pain us Tennessee fans endured since 2009 was absolutely brutal, this could finally be our year!!!

[@kidzbop38isstraightfire92]

Annnnd there's the pain again lol

[@saythetruth2426]

@@kidzbop38isstraightfire92 Bro you're cringe af lil boy😆

[@anb7408]

Ummmm……no.

[@BlueBirdRPG]

The fact that there is 49 mins of this should say a lot bout our pain lol

[@shinebright3997]

And we never gave upon our Vols. Now it makes it even sweeter

[@kevinsmith4541]

This is simply beautiful to watch as a Florida fan. God bless yall Vols. True fans those who have weathered all this disappointment

[@jadenn216]

Im a Miami fan but that post game interview from the Florida coach was hilarious. "I love seeing all these people disappointed" So do i coach🤣🤣

[@kylechrestman6955]

Seems like florida fans got disappointed last week.

[@kevinsmith4541]

@@kylechrestman6955 Your passive aggression makes you "seem like" a bitch.

[@ImDelrosa]

You made this comment too early 😭

[@kevinsmith4541]

@@ImDelrosa Tennessee is having a great year. Nothing in my comment is contradicted by that - their numerous struggles and heartbreaks over recent history are still a joy to reflect on and the Vol fans who endured it should be commended. Im happy for them they got a good squad this year to pull for. We'll see if they can avoid heartbreak this week against Bama.

[@christianskelton8555]

This video is the story of my childhood and life

[@saythetruth2426]

Same

[@flowergaming1982]

2015 was BRUTAL

[@Dr.Music77]

2017

[@Drewski423]

I remember watching that 2009 Alabama game on deployment. Heartbreaking.

[@22trem]

Dude took off his helmet during the play. Should have been a penalty.

[@Drewski423]

@@22trem I almost cried

[@jakehawkinsmusic]

This video is great and I'll tell you why. As a kid born in Orlando, in 1999, who's first college football game he watched was Tim Tebow beating Ohio State in the BCS national championship and really got into it at 6 years old right after NCAA 06 came out, it's a wonder how I didn't end up a Gator fan. I'll admit, I was on the fence for a while, mostly between UCF, Miami, Alabama and Florida... But ironically in 2009, when I watched a scrappy Tennessee team lose on a blocked field goal to #1 ranked Alabama IN Tuscaloosa, it sparked something extremely emotional in me and that was the first time I cried watching a sports game. From there on out, all my classmates started getting into football more so along with me, and I ended up sticking with the Vols. Unfortunately for me, I never got to see the dominance of the 80's, 90's and very early 2000's. My love for the Vols, the Tennessee Orange that runs through my veins, came from knowing nothing but the life of telling my friends every Friday before the Florida game that "the streak is over this year" and then coming back to school every Monday afterwards and getting absolutely roasted by everyone. It's been about resilliance (Butch Jones flashbacks 🤮) and being the underdog for me. Ironically, a completely different love and passion for the university than the experience of a Vol fan even just 15 years older than me. First time I think I've ever happy cried in my life was that 52-49 victory over Bama in 2022. With Heupel having come from UCF along with the majority of his staff, I can't say how perfect I think he has been for this program. GBO 🧡

[@bernie7044]

@jakehawkinsmusic You freaking traitor!!!! LMBO That's good stuff right there brother. I'm a bit older than you and I've been a Gator and a Buc fan all of my life. I'm a Florida Boy, born and raised. Bro, you missed some great games.

[@briancutshall1370]

That last one still makes me mad he wasn't down

[@nathanlawton7065]

Hell nah he wasn’t down. After his arm crossed the plane of the goal line the whistle done sounded then. That’s such bs I was at that game I can tell you no Tennessee fan was happy that night

[@thebethedians]

@@nathanlawton7065 i was there too never yelled so loud i’m my life

[@nathanlawton7065]

@@thebethedians that’s some class felony bullshyt

[@patmacrotch5611]

The ruling was that the ref "was thinking about blowing the whistle before he blew it" so that meant the play was dead right before you heard the whistle or the ball crossed. That had to be the dumbest thing I ever heard!?!

[@stephenp.haynes8971]

This was my childhood unfortunately, looking forward to a new generation of Vols football

[@Volsfan123]

The fun has just begun!

[@shinebright3997]

I remember all of this. Horrific!!!! The late what makes the comeback so sweet!!!! Go Vols

[@wayneadkins6883]

Watching this is hard but you know what I'm a VOL 4 LIFE BABY!!!

[@theace8502]

The guy calling the UNC game really sounded like he wanted UNC to win lol “WHAT ARE YOU DOING, SPIKE IT!!!”

[@bernie7044]

That hurt me to my heart to see Phil Fulmer have to resign. A great coach, a great mentor. Times just changed. It has become monumentally more difficult to coach nowadays. The kids are just so different today. Go Gators.

[@Easttnvol25]

At 24 years old I remember every single one of these wow

[@mikehawk4856]

Im here after Tennessee just beat Alabama!!

[@tylergraves519]

You forgot about some games. In 2017 a we had a Hail Mary come up 3 yards short against Kentucky and had 3 plays to score inside the 5 against USCjr and couldn’t get it in. And 2019 Alabama where Guarantano went rogue.

[@beesting5693]

Those don’t count

[@jadenn216]

@@beesting5693 why not? the first 2 should definitely count

[@RightousAdversary]

He gotta be the worst QB ever

[@mynameisaegis]

Loved this video as a UF fan but it is insane just how unlucky Tennessee got in some of these games.

[@antherun]

Wow I thought I had repressed all of this. So many of these games were lost on the incompetence of our sorry coaches. In a position to win. Have the higher probably to win. And yet shoot our own foot and lose. I can hardly remember aside from last season a year in which we lived up to or our performed the talent on our roster. GO VOLS!

[@walkercluck7573]

As a tennessee fan, I'm surprise it's not quite an hour long let alone ten hours long!

[@Jalreal]

Oh my god that Missou game I would have been howling at my TV had I seen that

[@BDEntertainment423]

I used to not give him that hard of a time but guarantano by far one The worst quarterbacks we've had at Tennessee in the two decades.

[@DaGamer-cd8hw]

WE DID IT BOYS WE FINALLY END THE PAIN

[@turng41]

Not yet

[@Wealish]

South Carolina 😢

[@kidzbop38isstraightfire92]

LMAO this didn't age well

[@KingFrosty14]

@@kidzbop38isstraightfire92 Damn Right😂😂😂

[@westleyspears916]

Thank god.. GBO baby !!!

[@christianskelton8555]

Somehow I had never seen that whole Missouri sequence that’s crazy 😂

[@PurpleeTv]

I was there for that one and the game lasted forever because of that ending and everyone was wondering what was going on, including the refs.

[@derekbigham450]

Don’t need a video to remember these. They live rent free in the back of my mind.

[@guyfromGA]

As a Georgia fan that 2014 Mizzou loss for y’all was even more frustrating for us.

[@willcampbell2485]

The amount of times that there were so many interceptions in overtime really has to say something about my Vols😭😭

[@bigrayskitchen6803]

5:30 Was one of the worse calls by refs I have ever seen.

[@christianlukeottinger5093]

The A&M one pisses me off still, A&M played so dirty in that game.

[@hunterschwartz7738]

As a Georgia fan all I have to ask is how in the world did you manage to get that BYU guy that wide open y’all had it in your hands

[@Blueeyepirate]

Been a fan since 06.. all I know is pain.

[@justinhc123]

We’ve been soooo close so many times. Much of the reason the last 15 years has been so torturous. But I’ll tell you one thing: Aside from Kiffin, who I think would’ve done really well if he stayed, Butch Jones was by far the closest. So close. Don’t know why the wheels fell off so badly, but he was inches away from turning us around. So folks can say what they want, but I won’t dog out Butch. It didn’t work out in the end, but he still gave his all for TN

[@parkerroberts5003]

2006 vs Florida and 2015 vs Oklahoma were the worst I ever witnessed

[@anb7408]

As a Dawg fan, we absolutely loved the likes Jarrett Guarantano and Derek Dooley! 😃

[@joeblow2069]

As a Bama fan I love this video! I do not hate UT I live in Tennessee but I love watching them lose. Dereck Dooley was a horrible coach. His losing record ay La Tech was not a clue?

[@plyingspace5025]

How to condense 12 years of pain into 49 minutes.

[@elijahallen4887]

An hour of pain

[@justanotheraccount5543]

This hurts 😭

[@xviper84]

Man the Lane Kiffin and Derek Dooley montage brought back terrible memories

[@breakingdead9714]

I was there at the music city bowl, that one still stings.

[@Dr.Music77]

Vols are #3 in the nation and Currently 7-0. I had to come back to bring myself back down a bit 😂 My how things have changed on rocky top!

[@kidzbop38isstraightfire92]

And then we lost to SC and lost playoff chances

[@jrlewis0213]

The next season so far has been pretty great for the Vols

[@TunerisFire]

Seems like every damn kicker become Adam Vinatieri against the Volt...

[@patmacrotch5611]

I remember the Purdue call, they said the ref "was thinking about blowing the whistle" and so that meant the play was dead.

[@landerhunt]

But we keep coming back. Go vols

[@chadr7522]

Damn straight

[@DaGamer-cd8hw]

Most loyal fans in the damn country🍊

[@snuffedtorch3683]

@@DaGamer-cd8hwthat goes to Nebraska

[@dakotadickens8902]

The lsu game and the North Carolina game both were called incorrectly. You can’t review a penalty for one. And two atleast on todays rules the game has a 10 second run off for offensive penalties. While we lost these game at least on of them helped change college games in the future with rules that prevent this kind of bs

[@kidzbop38isstraightfire92]

49:03 that is the worst officiating I've ever witnessed in my entire life

[@KinkESizemore]

Good Lord this is a lot of pain

[@TheMort86]

Yes, you can’t review the offsides. That got called regardless of Missouri touching the ball or not. That was going to get enforced no matter what.

[@dbabb2484]

Look, a video of every moment of the past decade that I’ve considered jumping off a bridge

[@rejectracoon]

Roll Tide to all these losses

[@spencerwarren9219]

Man that's painful to watch . Glad those days are behind volnation

[@jaynethery9865]

Strait trauma induced. I remember all of these & am now very concerned about tomorrow lol

[@Garrettguy5]

Looks like they back 👀

[@keylearning5746]

I look for David Palmer to pull it out with a last minute punt return. Oh, wait…..

[@gavinlyons5967]

I don’t know bout y’all. I fast forwarded through the 2019 season

[@johnnash1119]

That LSU game still gives me nightmares

[@kidzbop38isstraightfire92]

Have you ever seen a team so BAD at defending the deep ball when it's 3rd or 4th and long?

[@spencerwarren9219]

One thing you got wrong in video. Was the end to be contiuned. Look at 2023 11 and 2 beat bama lsu in death valley and gaytors. 2023 9 and 4 in rebuild. 2016 was suppose to be the year and we went 9 and 4 . Diffrent team under coach hype. Now a 5 star once in a decade qb with more tallent and depth on team since fulmer days. You need to replace it to be contiuned with THE END GBO

[@parkerroberts5003]

Such terrible plays to end these games. It looks like Tennessee tried their hardest to lose no matter the situation.

[@taytudii8713]

Add South Carolina now

[@RogersLawnCare]

We have been screwed so much over the years. We have been right there and almost made it. But keep tripping over and over. We may have finally figured it out.

[@isaacrumley6029]

8:16 BABAHHAHAHAHAHAHA STILL GET ME EVERY TIME 😭😭😭😭😭

[@Football__Junkie]

A lot dumb mistakes by the Vols BUT several dumb mistakes by the refs, too. It’s almost like the get flustered in. Neyland Stadium too

[@kristodd3496]

Alabama should have had a live ball foul. Excessive celebration with helmet thrown mid play. Should have had 15 yards and another kick

[@TravisBrown-ld5xb]

I love some pain therapy. But seriously that BYU kicker missed that kick.

[@22trem]

Brutal

[@benjaminwatkins1305]

This staff will put it together

[@anthonybaldwin3751]

As Lee Corso states “not so fast my friend”

[@Rymann_23]

The pitch.... SWING AND A MISS!!!!! THATS THE BALLGAME!!! HOW ABOUT THAT!!!!! THE AGGIES SCORE TWO IN THE NINTH BUT THE VOLUNTEERS-- TENNESSEE -- THE CLIMB IS COMPLETE!! THEY HAVE REACHED THE SUMMIT!! THE CHAMPIONSHIP FLAG HAS BEEN PLANTED ON ROCKY TOP!! THE VOLUNTEERS ARE THE VERY BEST IN COLLEGE BASEBALL!!! FOR THE SIXTIETH TIME THIS SEASON TENNESSEE SAYS HELLO WIN COLUMN AND HELLO NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!!!! FINAL SCORE..... VOLS SIX, AGGIES FIVE..... THE DREAM HAS COME TRUE!!! THIS IS TENNESSEE BASEBALL!!

[@kidzbop38isstraightfire92]

I see a lot of bad officiating in this video...none as bad as 49:03

[@brandoncoxwell9181]

I'm watching this cause I like pain

[@Jaysonfear42069]

This yr we make up for all this VFL

[@isaacrumley6029]

21:04 me seeing us 11-2 last year

[@jeremywinnett6352]

If watching this ain't Stockholm Syndrome

[@kidzbop38isstraightfire92]

6:50 I dont care what the rule says, the fact that you can spike it with 12 guys on the field and it NOT result in a time runoff is an absolute travesty

[@George_Fl0yd]

As a Vanderbilt fan this gives me joy

[@farewellcruelworld]

Tennessee is going to checkerboard Vandy this year.

[@johnnetherton1769]

GO VOLS

[@TheRealJTaylor]

2011 loss to Kentucky to end the streak, and the players quit

[@Talkinsports91]

UCLA smacking them back to back years started this mess

[@tylerbarrett5747]

Tennessee just gonna Tennessee

[@blakepalmer1929]

Why tell me why please would you do this to me?

[@bigpoppa7152]

I don't want to watch that crap, lived thru it ounce

[@risevfl]

Add a new one

[@anthonybaldwin3751]

Oh what could have been Lane

[@ladarianroper4770]

I can't watch no more man I getting mad as hell 🤣

[@mountaindoom8909]

Only Tennessee

[@dustingreen2254]

Go vols!

[@joshporter5151]

Some of these games, the refs gave the other team the win! Both Music City bowls should have been a UT win! Should have been a ten second run-off against North Carolina, and the running back was clearly not down against Purdue.

[@Happytarheel7]

Tennessee definitely got screwed against Purdue…… however, probably because I’m a biased UNC fan I don’t think ut should’ve won the 2010 game. For starters you gotta remember the 10 second runoff wasn’t a rule at that time, so it was the correct call. Also, I believe UNC outplayed ut for most of that Game tho. Just my opinion

[@albertataulbee5077]

Opie and the rebels had the refs bought off

[@skewy8682]

It’s about it be payback time

[@Nedyah74]

This hurts lol everytime you non tenn fans have no idea.

[@davidlong8627]

Drooley lol

[@A.I.P519]

As a Tennessee fan, I hate this video!

[@stingray8585]

Kiffin wasn't a heartbreaker, glad that the thug is gone

[@jadenn216]

you really are crying...the coaching changes werent heartbreaking you idiot. He just put it in the video so we know which coaches were the head coach at the time

[@ashtonm5494]

That call in the purdue game is still the worst call in history

[@vaccumsealed]

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Tennessee: the school that was "almost".......dum enough to hire the man back who walked out on em in the middle of the night for U.S.C. Better hang on to Heupel and not start that "fire the coach" creedo of yours cause youre running outta people willing to come here. LoL

[@not_my_username]

Joe Milton is the epitome of a Kamala voter

[@jimsmith7198]

Gonna have to add 1 in 10 days

[@farewellcruelworld]

Check again.