Since we started playing annually in 1990, the results of night games are......... We won in 90, 98 and 04. They won in 91, 94, 99, 05, and 06. 3-2 in Neyland and 0-3 in The Swamp. I say that to say, meh. We go from being totally dominated to having a fighting chance. We don't have the decided advantage in night games people seem to think we do.
I start with kickoff time. 01 was 4:30 kickoff, and given that via Sunrise and Sunset for U.S.A. – Florida – Gainesville – December 2001 sunset was 5:30pm in Gainesville that day, I have to count it as an afternoon game.
Certainly a fair point, but it's worth mentioning that that's where a lot of our night game nostalgia comes from.
That, and 98 and 04. I think 98 and 04 play a bigger role because of the way the games played out. That's just an IMO.