Analysis: Another electrifying college football Saturday, with fans rushing fields and removing goal posts from Knoxville to Fort Worth to Salt Lake City, sparked scores of celebrations and tears, Chuck Culpepper writes.
“You could see the swarm of orange coming down,” the second-year Tennessee coach Josh Heupel had said 1,500 miles east-southeast, having just coached a mad, mad, mad, mad victory over No. 3 Alabama that upheld one of the weirdest tenets of a sport stuffed with them. In a sport of kingdoms that beat their neighbors habitually, sometimes, just sometimes, there’s value in having lost 15 straight times to a neighbor you detest, as Tennessee had to Alabama.
It happened in Ann Arbor last November, when Michigan finally took a brute solution to its Ohio State problem after going 2-17 through the dour new century.
Now it came to that forgotten old bygone powerhouse Tennessee , in a year too breakthrough to believe and a 52-49 game too chockablock to comprehend even if comprehending is precisely what they’ll do for decades onward. Now the goal post chunksto romp around town to the Tennessee River and other whereabouts, even if they did not get up and do this themselves.
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