100 games in 100 days: Vols, Majors achieve the signature victory against Auburn in 1979

Note from the publisher: This is a daily series that revised on August 30 in Atlanta 100 in the Tennessee soccer games against Syracuse against Syracuse. It is not a ranking of games.

The Tennessee Football program had been waiting for it for a while.

The 85,936 orange believers in the Neyland Stadium had this Saturday afternoon on September 29, 1979-zum of the greatest amount to see a second game ever.

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The Vols, which had hiked through the desert of college football in the past five years, had a big breakthrough against Auburnbeats the tiger, 35-17.

This signature victory, the first of the Johnny Majors era, did not require theater. Tennessee dominated from the time when the opening start in the arms of landed Gary Moore.

Moore was the clay setter who took the ball on the 2-yard line before roaming the east side line. He came across the midfield on a cluster of his own blockers, but jumped out.

Moores 98-Yard return for a touchdown was also a trend breaker for the Vols, which had come to slow starts at the previous games this season.

Not that day.

The Oburn offensive drove down and achieved the first blow to land by Tennessee. But the blows did not stop.

The Vols landed another when quarterback Jimmy Streater linked to Reggie Harper For a 10-yard point number. Tennessee was final this time.

Moore scored the third touchdown and his second. He carried Tennessee Downfield in the second quarter and broke the run to Run to record the offensive with the 10 Tigers.

He took another handover from Streater, drove through an Auburn defender and supported the end zone for a 21-7 lead.

And it wasn't just the offense. The defense of the Vols made up three interceptions Val Barksdale This set up a trip against the clock.

Strater covered this trip with a 6-yard scoring scoring with a four-second lead to achieve a 28-7 advantage at halftime.

The tigers tried to stay in it and scored a goal in the third quarter to cut their deficit to two points. Streater clapped back with a 28-yard touchdown run.

Tennessee scored 479 meters total criminal offense, and streakers raced for 106 of them.

The Vols were 3-0 for the first time since 1973, and the triumph extended their winning series to six games from last season.

The 79 season was a mixed bag. Tennessee lost to Rutgers and turned the following week and got another big victory over Notre lady.

The Vols ended 7-5 and made a Bowl game for the first time under Majors.

“I don't know how good both teams are,” said Major's reporters after the game. “But I know that we are a long way on site where we were. This was the best 60 minutes of football against a good team since I was here.”