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10 Worst Bowl Losses in Tennessee Football History

By Caleb Calhoun

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Nov 7, 2015; New Orleans, LA, USA; A view of the New Orleans skyline from Yulman Stadium before the game between the Tulane Green Wave and the Connecticut Huskies. Mandatory Credit: Chuck Cook-USA TODAY Sports

3. 1957 Sugar Bowl: Tennessee Loses to Baylor Bears 13-7

We are back to the Sugar Bowl with a game that does not put a damper on the season in hindsight but put a cap on an awful postseason for the Vols.

That year, Tennessee had gone 10-0 in the regular season with huge wins over powerhouse programs Georgia Tech and Ole Miss at the time. But at the end of the regular season, they were declared No. 2 in all the polls, robbed of a national championship they so richly deserved.

At the same time, Johnny Majors was robbed of the Heisman Trophy, which unfortunately went to Paul Hornung of the 2-8 Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

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    • This was a frustrating postseason that was able to fuel the narrative of the media hatred of the SEC that largely stuck into the 2000s. But to make matters worse, Tennessee ruined its cause with this Sugar Bowl game.

    Facing a largely inferior 8-2 Baylor Bears team that was not even ranked in the Top 10 of either poll, the Vols were rendered useless on offense under Head Coach Bowden Wyatt. In one of the great coaching jobs in history, Sam Boyd made sure that Tennessee high-powered rushing attack would never generating anything.

    And after holding the Vols scoreless in the first half, his team had a 6-0 lead. Majors finally got a score on a one-yard touchdown run to take the lead back for the Vols 7-6, but it was not enough. Baylor scored again in the fourth quarter, and the Vols could never again punch it in.

    Tennessee flat-out choked away a bowl game it easily should have one to a much lesser opponent, and that bowl loss was beyond embarrassing for a program trying to claim it was robbed of a national title that year.

    Next: #2: 1940 Rose Bowl

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