ABSTRACT. The colored Jones polynomial is a q-polynomial invariant of links colored by irreducible representations of a simple Lie algebra. A q-series called a tail is obtained as the limit of the sl 2 colored Jones polynomials {Jn(K; q)}n for some link K, for example, an alternating link. For the sl 3 colored Jones polynomials, the existence of a tail is unknown. We give two explicit formulas of the tail of the sl 3 colored Jones polynomials colored by (n, 0) for the (2, 2m)-torus link. These two expressions of the tail provide an identity of q-series. This is a knot-theoretical generalization of the Andrews-Gordon identities for the Ramanujan false theta function.