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Report on UT and tSEC ducking Baylor in 2015 -- Proven: FALSE
Posted on 12/27/14 at 1:26 pm
Posted on 12/27/14 at 1:26 pm
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A rare chiming in from me... Brian or others can confirm, but this is kind of an older story from what I heard a couple weeks ago.
The version as told to me was that the two ADs spoke briefly and there was mutual interest, but the SEC is trying to find more uniformity in their P5 scheduling which kept any talks from getting serious. And even then Tennessee probably wouldn't have done it anyway with OU on the schedule too. The conversation didn't go anywhere and I'm actually very surprised it's even a story now. It's really a non-event.
Had Tennessee scheduled Baylor they would have had 10 P5 games (2 P5 OOC) and the rest of the conference only 9 (some with 8, working on their 9th P5 as an OOC). So I can see where the SEC stands on this.
As much as we'd all love a narrative about the SEC wanting their teams to avoid Baylor, it's really not what happened.
FWIW, I'd love to go to a game at Tennessee. Fantastic atmosphere. Two great stadiums for a home and home. Maybe down the road we can make it happen.
This post was edited on 12/27/14 at 1:45 pm
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Posted on 12/27/14 at 1:28 pm to TRUERockyTop
brian ethridge is never wrong folks
Posted on 12/27/14 at 1:28 pm to TRUERockyTop
The Baylor fan. 
Posted on 12/27/14 at 1:29 pm to TRUERockyTop
That's it then case closed.
Tennessee can make it to 6-6 playing shitty schools while knowing they/the sec is afraid of them to play Baylor. Good job butt chuggers
Tennessee can make it to 6-6 playing shitty schools while knowing they/the sec is afraid of them to play Baylor. Good job butt chuggers
Posted on 12/27/14 at 1:29 pm to TRUERockyTop
Baylor dosen't ever play P5 teams in their OOC schedule
This post was edited on 12/27/14 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 12/27/14 at 1:30 pm to TRUERockyTop
Makes sense. I thought it was far fetched that Baylor would try to schedule a P5 team.
Posted on 12/27/14 at 1:33 pm to TRUERockyTop
It always seemed unlikely we'd schedule 2 B12 teams to open the season but this would be a great future game to schedule. Even so I would like to see UCLA and ND scheduled again - those were fun.
Posted on 12/27/14 at 1:34 pm to TRUERockyTop
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Two great stadiums
Posted on 12/27/14 at 1:40 pm to TRUERockyTop
Were you really worried about perception here? Not wanting to play two upper-tier B12 teams in the same regular season was a perfectly valid and acceptable reason to nix such a game, and most reasonable people would have agreed.
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