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Originally Posted by Mr. GE
I have seen a few games in Neyland Stadium... The most memorable one was in 89 or 90 against Florda at night. We still had the Turf. We had Dale Carter back then. He returned a kickoff that game. And we beat them 49-19 I believe. I'll go back and look up the exact game. The Gators wore blue pants and I remember Spurrier vowing to never wear those again because of the ass whipping they got. lol...
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ok.. I was off on the score. it was 45-3. And Dale Carter returned the second have kickoff. Here is recap from Wikipedia. Full article here
Florida
1990: Homecoming
Steve Spurrier returned to his alma mater in 1990 to become the Gators’ new football coach. In yet another link between the programs, Spurrier had been a star QB at
Science Hill High School in
Johnson City, Tennessee in the early 1960s. Although Knoxville is nearby, he had not seriously considered attending UT because he was an excellent passer and Tennessee ran a
single wing offense at the time which featured a running quarterback.
[21] Instead, he choose to return to the state of his birth (Spurrier was born in
Miami Beach[22]), eventually becoming Florida’s first
Heisman Trophy winner in 1966.
Spurrier’s first Gator squad was 5-0 and ranked #10 coming into the matchup with Johnny Majors’ 3-0-2 and #9 Tennessee Volunteers, marking the first time in series history that both rivals were ranked in the AP top-10 when they faced off. (It was not Spurrier’s first visit to Knoxville as an opposing coach; his 1988
Duke Blue Devils had upset the Vols 31-26.
[23])
The 1990 game began as a defensive struggle, with Tennessee holding a slim 7-3 lead at the half. However, the Vols’
Dale Carter returned the second half kickoff 91 yards for a touchdown, igniting the home crowd at Neyland Stadium.
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On their ensuing possession, the Gators fumbled for what would be the first of six UF turnovers in the second half. The opportunistic Vols took full advantage, turning Spurrier’s homecoming (and, coincidentally, Tennessee’s
homecoming game) into a “dominating” 45-3 rout.
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