From Kamara to Chubb: Last time Tennessee beat Georgia

On Saturday, the No. 15 Tennessee Volunteers volition big the No. 6 Georgia Bulldogs successful an SEC showdown. Tennessee is looking to marque a connection successful its league opener and drawback a unsmooth streak of performances against the defending SEC champion Bulldogs.

The Volunteers and Bulldogs archetypal squared disconnected successful 1899 and person met each twelvemonth since 1992. But the matchup hasn't precisely been connected adjacent footing successful caller seasons -- Georgia has won the past 8 contests.

The past clip Tennessee won, successful 2016, it was Kirby Smart's archetypal play arsenic caput manager astatine his alma mater, Alvin Kamara was catching passes retired of the backfield for the Volunteers and the triumph came aft a chaotic and iconic ending.

Georgia struck archetypal and fast, jumping to a 17-0 lead. But Tennessee didn't spell away, and with conscionable nether 3 minutes remaining, took its archetypal pb connected a strip-sack fumble betterment successful the extremity zone. The Bulldogs weren't done though, and seemingly had the crippled won erstwhile backmost Jacob Eason connected with wide receiver Riley Ridley connected a 47-yard touchdown walk with conscionable 10 seconds remaining.

But an excessive solemnisation punishment meant Georgia had to footwear disconnected from its 20-yard line. With Tennessee returner Evan Berry racing the shortened footwear past midfield, backmost Josh Dobbs was successful scope for 1 last-gasp Hail Mary heave.

Dobbs recovered wide receiver Jauan Jennings successful the extremity portion to springiness the Volunteers a miraculous 34-31 win.

Since Dobbs and Jennings shocked Sanford Stadium successful Athens, Georgia, though, the bid has been each Bulldogs. With the 2 teams acceptable to conscionable again this play successful Nashville, Tennessee, we looked backmost astatine what things were similar during their 2016 battle.

A acquainted look connected the sideline for the Bulldogs

Georgia's 2016 nonaccomplishment to Tennessee marks a tiny but notable milestone successful caller Bulldog past -- it was Smart's archetypal location nonaccomplishment arsenic Georgia's caput coach.

Smart had taken implicit astatine his alma mater successful the preceding offseason, replacing Mark Richt, who had coached Georgia for the erstwhile 15 seasons. The Smart epoch didn't unfastened successful ascendant fashion, arsenic the Bulldogs started 4-4, including a 2-4 people successful SEC play. The nonaccomplishment to the Volunteers was 1 of 3 location defeats Georgia had that season.

Things would deed an upswing rapidly for Smart & Co., though. The Bulldogs won the SEC and made the nationalist title crippled successful 2017, and Smart is 49-1 successful Sanford Stadium since his archetypal year.

On Tennessee's sideline, a little memorable figure

While 2016 marked the commencement of a caller epoch successful Athens, it was adjacent the extremity of an unspectacular tenure successful Knoxville.

The Volunteers started beardown successful Butch Jones' 4th campaign, with the triumph implicit Georgia marking a 5-0 commencement for Jones' squad. Tennessee mislaid its adjacent 3 games, including a 49-10 dismantling astatine the hands of the Alabama Crimson Tide astatine Neyland Stadium.

Things unraveled further successful 2017, with a 4-6 commencement starring to Jones' dismissal arsenic caput coach.

An NFL duo successful the Georgia backfield

The Bulldogs leaned connected their crushed crippled successful Smart's archetypal play -- averaging implicit 40 carries per crippled -- and for bully reason. The backfield tandem successful Athens featured a aboriginal four-time NFL Pro Bowler successful Nick Chubb and a two-time Super Bowl champion successful Sony Michel.

Both juniors i...