On Saturday, the SEC Network spent all day featuring stories on the Tennessee Vols. One of those features was a replay of the 1997 SEC Championship game, where the Vols came back to beat the Auburn Tigers to win their first SEC Title in seven years.
But this title wasn’t just about ending a drought. It was the highlight of a great four-year career for the most legendary quarterback in school history.
Manning and the Vols had failed to reach the title game for the first three years with Florida being their only conference loss and blocking them from the game in 1995 and 1996.