1976 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

1976
Alabama was not quite as dominant in 1976 as it had been the previous five years. The season-opening 10–7 loss to Mississippi was Alabama's first conference loss since the Punt Bama Punt game in 1972. On October 2 the Georgia Bulldogs held Bama to 86 total yards; the 21–0 loss was the first time Alabama had been shut out since 1970. For the first time since that same 1970 season, Bama failed to win the SEC title. Highlights of the 1976 season included a 38–7 victory over Auburn and a Liberty Bowl win over UCLA.

Tennessee
Alabama scored the winning touchdown with less than six minutes remaining, set up by two QB Jack O'Rear's 15-yard runs, one to start the drive and one prior to Calvin Culliver's touchdown. The score came just moments after failing to punch it in from the Tennessee one. The winning drive covered 43 yards in five plays after forcing the Vols to punt from deep in their own territory. It was Alabama's sixth straight win versus Tennessee.