With ESPN’s “College GameDay” arriving in Knoxville for Saturday’s tilt between Tennessee and Georgia, we’re taking a look back at memorable moments the other times the show came to town.

This is the 12th time UT has hosted “College GameDay,” and the Vols are a disappointing 5-6 under ESPN’s spotlight, including a 4-5 mark for SEC games. So let’s focus instead on the positives: The Vols have won the past three games when “GameDay” came to Rocky Top and all three are worth reliving. Call this an exercise in selective memory.

The No. 15 Vols (2-0) host No. 3 Georgia (2-0) on Sept. 13 (3:30 p.m. ET, ABC) at Neyland Stadium.

“College Gameday” will air on ESPN from 9 a.m. to noon ET from Ayres Hall. Rece Davis is the host and is joined by analysts Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, Pat McAfee and former Alabama coach Nick Saban.

Sept. 24, 2016: Tennessee 38, Florida 28

Speaking of selective memories, how about that start to the 2016 season?

“College GameDay” came to Knoxville for Florida, marking the first time in four years ESPN put the Vols in its premier spot. The show had visited for the rivalry game four times previously (1996, 2000, 2002 and 2012) and the Vols were 0-4 in those games. Even worse, Tennessee hadn’t beaten Florida since 2004.

The Vols already had put together a marquee performance in 2016, dismantling Virginia Tech at the Battle of Bristol, and the Florida game was supposed to be the coming out party. It didn’t start that way, but trailing 21-0, the Vols engineered a comeback to remember, outscoring the Gators 38-7 to win comfortably.

After that game, UT went down to Athens and had one of the wildest comeback, last-second victories in Vols history with the Josh Dobbs-Jauan Jennings Hail Mary to win it (yours truly was there).

Georgia hadn’t won anything of relevance in decades. Undefeated Tennessee was on top of the world. And coach Butch Jones had a stacked roster that included Jalen Hurd and Alvin Kamara.

What could go wrong?

Sept. 24, 2022: Tennessee 38, Florida 33

Fast forward six years and ESPN came back for another helping of Gators and Vols and again got their money’s worth.

“GameDay” started with a bang when analyst Pat McAfee put on orange and white checkered overalls and an orange bucket hat before he backflipped into the Tennessee River from a boat in the Vol Navy fleet (imagine reading that sentence in 2005).

The game was a reverse from the 2016 version: Tennessee held a 17-point lead with less than 8 minutes to go. But two Florida touchdowns and a recovered onside kick brought the Gators within a Hail Mary of winning.

Thankfully, Gators quarterback Anthony Richardson threw up a wobbly pass under intense pressure that was picked by cornerback Kamal Hadden to seal the game for the Vols.

Oct. 15, 2022: Tennessee 52, Alabama 49

What’s better than Pat McAfee in the river? A goal post.

In Tennessee’s most compelling season in a generation, the upstart, fast-moving 2022 Vols offense took on Alabama in the Third Saturday in October and “GameDay” was there.

The game went back and forth – both teams racked up more than 560 yards of offense. Neyland Stadium had never been so electric. Placekicker Chase McGrath’s wobbly duck of a walk-off 40-yard field goal will go down in Vols lore. “HE GOT IT … And here they come!” yelled Rece Davis.

The scenes of the field covered in a sea of orange, cigar smoke hanging in the air and people digging up the end zone for posterity, will live on in Vols history.