The Cigar Game: 2022 Alabama at Tennessee Rewatch | It Just Meant More

The OG Kickoff is back with one more It Just Meant More episode before fall camp, and it's a big one: No. 6 Tennessee's 52-49 win over No. 3 Alabama on the Third Saturday in October in 2022. Connor and Will rewatch the game that snapped a 15-game losing streak to the Tide, ended the "decade of dysfunction" in Knoxville, and sent Neyland Stadium into a cloud of cigar smoke with Dixieland Delight blaring.

We get into why 2022 was the last true old guard season of college football, the biggest moment at Neyland since 1998, Hendon Hooker's masterpiece against Bryce Young and Jahmyr Gibbs, Henry To'o To'o's complicated legacy, angry Nick Saban, the Chase McGrath knuckleball that lifted the curse, and whether that season was a missed opportunity for Tennessee or the one that got away from Alabama.

This is the last rewatch of the offseason. Real football talk is coming soon, with two pods a week on the way.

Chapters:

0:00 Intro and why 2022 Alabama at Tennessee

9:49 Where were we

11:50 Number one song in America

14:10 Nick Saban and the weird 2022 Bama team

18:12 Josh Heupel's coming of age game

23:26 A listers: Bryce Young

31:05 Will Anderson

33:51 Jahmyr Gibbs