ATHENS, Ga. -- As Jauan Jennings laid in the Sanford Stadium endzone clutching the football that held Tennessee's hopes, dreams and aspirations, the emotions for Tennessee players, coaches, administrators and fans were all over the place.

It was euphoria. It was shock. Disbelief and as one person said, “I'm numb.”

Numbing might be the best way to describe the last 5 to 10 mins of real time between the hedges in the Vols 34-31 improbable win over Georgia. The Vols won. They lost, then they won again.

Part of that numbing feeling wasn't a new for those of us who have had a front row seat to Tennessee football for the last 15 years or so.

Everyone remembers Georgia 2001. There was the LSU game that was a win but then wasn't thanks to too many men on the field. There was the Music City Bowl where the Vols won, but replay said "no" giving the Tar Heels another opportunity to kick the game winning field goal. A loss that the next year resulted in the 10 second run off rule. There's the Pig Howard fumble against Georgia in 2013. I can go on and on.

Tennessee fans and the football program have experienced plenty of bad numb feelings.

The last time the Vols experienced what happened Saturday evening in Georgia? I would argue never.

It was so mind boggling, you don't know where to start.

In the coming days, Saturday's win will provide plenty of lessons not only for the Vols but football players everywhere. Some good, some bad. Those lessons will be shown not only at Tennessee but around the country in team meetings at all levels of football. Lessons on finishing plays. Lessons on not giving up on a play. Lessons on it being a 60 minute game. Lessons on discipline.

Some of those lessons will be used in pulpits in a few hours. I will use some with my 11-year old son because many of the lessons aren't just football related. They are life lessons. As Jones likes to say football is life, just sped up.

For the last three years, the Vols have been close, each year they have gotten closer. But they haven't been able to find a way.

Phillip Fulmer told me last year when the Vols couldn't close out games that there was no magic formula to winning close games. He said when you are in enough of them it just kind of happens and you just start finding ways.

Maybe it's happening. I don't know. I don't know how good the Vols are. It's amazing they are 5-0 given their slow starts and given their injuries. What happens next for the Vols? Heck if I know.

What I do know is that I sat in the radio booth Saturday some time after 7 p.m. with my mouth wide open (to the point Tim Priest told me on the air I could close it now) and that Team 120 did something I've never seen and maybe no Tennessee team has ever done.

They won, they lost, then won again.

In the process they left many numb and they left me speechless.