Saturday’s Army-Navy game will be Verne Lundquist’s final broadcast for college football on CBS. His first year was 2000, and his first game in Knoxville was the 2000 Tennessee-Florida game, where the infamous Jabar Gaffney non-catch happened.
Now, 16 years later, he has been with the Home Depot’s SEC on CBS from the time the Vols were still in their peak to when they collapsed to now, as they try to get back to relevance.
Lundquist spent six years with Todd Blackledge as the color commentator and another 11 with Gary Danielson.
Although Tennessee never won an SEC Championship with him calling a game, it did have some thrilling wins on his watch.