It’s one thing to win a close game. However, there’s a difference between that and winning a game due to sheer luck, one a team had no business winning Tennessee football has been on both sides of plenty of those games throughout its long history.
Rocky Top has won SEC and national championships while also securing quite a few top five victories on the basis of lucky wins. To this day, fans who saw these games look back and wonder how they pulled it off.
Lucky wins didn’t just exist when Tennessee football was at its peak either.