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Which conference football opponent will you miss playing next season?
Posted on 2/8/24 at 12:29 am
Posted on 2/8/24 at 12:29 am
Tennessee still keeps its regulars- Alabama, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, and Vanderbilt- next season. We won't play South Carolina for the first time since the '92 expansion. I hate to admit it, but it was a pretty interesting series, and I'll miss our annual game. Post-2000, I was almost never confident we'd beat South Carolina. The game had that familiar "anything can happen" feeling.
Summary
1992: South Carolina upsets #16 Tennessee.
1993-99: Tennessee steamrolls SC every year
2000-04: Tennessee extends its streak to 12 straight, although these contests were much closer than the games from the 90s.
2005: Spurrier's first season. SC snaps the streak in Knoxville, winning 16-15 in a snoozer of a game. Tennessee proceeds to its first losing season since 1988.
2006: An overrated Tennessee team escapes the Cocks, 31-24 in Columbia.
2007: South Carolina won everything but the game itself, outgaining Tennessee everywhere except in points. Tennessee wins 27-24 in OT.
2008: Cocks stomp a mudhole in a piss-poor Vols squad. That following Monday, Fulmer agrees to step down by the end of the season.
2009: Lane runs a train on the Cocks on Halloween. Vols wore fugly black uniforms.
2010-12: SC wins 3 straight.
2013: In Jones' first season, a bad Tennessee team stuns SC in Knoxville. SC finishes 11-2 and Tennessee still finishes 5-7.
2014-15: Tennessee wins close contests.
2016-18: SC wins close contests.
2019: Tennessee snaps their losing streak to SC with a 41-21 victory. Turnaround after a 1-4 start to the season.
2020: It was close because both teams really sucked. Tennessee wins 31-27.
2021: SC can't figure out Heupel's hurry-up offense. Tennessee wins 45-20, its largest margin of victory over the Cocks since 1998.
2022: I don't want to talk about it.
2023: Vols get their revenge in Knoxville and close out the annual series.
Summary
1992: South Carolina upsets #16 Tennessee.
1993-99: Tennessee steamrolls SC every year
2000-04: Tennessee extends its streak to 12 straight, although these contests were much closer than the games from the 90s.
2005: Spurrier's first season. SC snaps the streak in Knoxville, winning 16-15 in a snoozer of a game. Tennessee proceeds to its first losing season since 1988.
2006: An overrated Tennessee team escapes the Cocks, 31-24 in Columbia.
2007: South Carolina won everything but the game itself, outgaining Tennessee everywhere except in points. Tennessee wins 27-24 in OT.
2008: Cocks stomp a mudhole in a piss-poor Vols squad. That following Monday, Fulmer agrees to step down by the end of the season.
2009: Lane runs a train on the Cocks on Halloween. Vols wore fugly black uniforms.
2010-12: SC wins 3 straight.
2013: In Jones' first season, a bad Tennessee team stuns SC in Knoxville. SC finishes 11-2 and Tennessee still finishes 5-7.
2014-15: Tennessee wins close contests.
2016-18: SC wins close contests.
2019: Tennessee snaps their losing streak to SC with a 41-21 victory. Turnaround after a 1-4 start to the season.
2020: It was close because both teams really sucked. Tennessee wins 31-27.
2021: SC can't figure out Heupel's hurry-up offense. Tennessee wins 45-20, its largest margin of victory over the Cocks since 1998.
2022: I don't want to talk about it.
2023: Vols get their revenge in Knoxville and close out the annual series.
This post was edited on 2/8/24 at 7:24 am
Posted on 2/8/24 at 12:34 am to BlindedMeWithScience
I’ll miss playing South Carolina, who was our assigned SEC East rival. They gave us Kenny Trill, I think that A&M vs SC game was the debut game of the SEC Network. Now, we probably play each other every other year. It was fun while it lasted.
Posted on 2/8/24 at 1:01 am to BlindedMeWithScience
LSU-Auburn is dead.
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I'll miss it so much, I could kiss Chaz Ramsey if the SEC said we could still play every year.
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I'll miss it so much, I could kiss Chaz Ramsey if the SEC said we could still play every year.
Posted on 2/8/24 at 5:24 am to BlindedMeWithScience
Statically, the SC-UTK game was the closest game in the conference for a stretch of 20 years. Other than the 21 and 22 respective beatdowns, it was the tightest margin of victory of any annual contest, and produced some fantastic games. It also developed into a pretty intense rivalry, despite the relative lack of history between the schools. I'll miss it.
Realignment put SC on an island. We don't play the three schools we're closest to in UGA, UTK, and UF, but instead we're relegated to the B12 East with Oklahoma, aTm, and Mizzou. Next season will be boring AF.
Realignment put SC on an island. We don't play the three schools we're closest to in UGA, UTK, and UF, but instead we're relegated to the B12 East with Oklahoma, aTm, and Mizzou. Next season will be boring AF.
Posted on 2/8/24 at 5:41 am to BlindedMeWithScience
Georgia.
Oh wait, we’ve only played them ONCE since 2012.
That’s messed up.
Oh wait, we’ve only played them ONCE since 2012.
That’s messed up.
Posted on 2/8/24 at 6:25 am to BlindedMeWithScience
UGA. I don’t care if they beat us 85% of the time. It’s a natural game, geographically close, and was played for decades before we joined the SEC. In fact, that matchup has been played more than a lot of other more notable SEC rivalries.
This post was edited on 2/8/24 at 8:18 am
Posted on 2/8/24 at 6:45 am to BlindedMeWithScience
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1992: South Carolina upsets #16 Tennessee in Knoxville
That game was actually in Columbia, my freshman year at Carolina and our inaugural season in the SEC. They were filming for The Program during and after the game. One of my favorite all-time games. The UT-USC series has indeed had a bit of everything over the years.
Posted on 2/8/24 at 7:21 am to BlindedMeWithScience
quote:
2013: In Jones' first season, a bad Tennessee team stuns SC in Knoxville. SC finishes 11-2 and Tennessee still finishes 5-7.
Legit cost SC a spot in the SEC title game.
Posted on 2/8/24 at 7:28 am to BlindedMeWithScience
The 90 Mile Drive, State. We've played them 107 times, more than any opponent.
Posted on 2/8/24 at 8:12 am to BlindedMeWithScience
It honestly sucks that SC won't play UGA, Tennessee, or Florida next year. Just feels wrong.
Posted on 2/8/24 at 8:58 am to BlindedMeWithScience
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Tennessee still keeps its regulars- Alabama, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, and Vanderbilt- next season. We won't play South Carolina for the first time since the '92 expansion.
To be fair...Georgia only became a "regular" opponent for Tennessee after the '92 expansion as well. Between the formation of the SEC in 1933 and the 1992 expansion, Tennessee and Georgia played 10 times. By comparison...Tennessee played Duke 24 times during that same stretch.
Posted on 2/8/24 at 9:01 am to BlindedMeWithScience
Vanderbilt, can't say I'll miss playing Bama/Aub at all
We play everyone else.
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Posted on 2/8/24 at 9:03 am to BlindedMeWithScience
Goes into great detail the years the vols win. Skips the years the cocks win. Imagine that
Posted on 2/8/24 at 9:04 am to BlindedMeWithScience
I think I'll miss Mizzu most.
I wanted to hang em out to dry next year in KTown.
Score another touchdown with seconds left just to kick em in the gut.
I wanted to hang em out to dry next year in KTown.
Score another touchdown with seconds left just to kick em in the gut.
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Posted on 2/8/24 at 9:09 am to BlindedMeWithScience
None. We play all the better teams and as soon as ESPN ponies up, we'll be playing 9 conference games and we'll be seeing everyone every few years.
College football is about the survival of the fittest and getting to the playoffs. Frankly, I don't care about what's historical anymore.
College football is about the survival of the fittest and getting to the playoffs. Frankly, I don't care about what's historical anymore.
Posted on 2/8/24 at 9:10 am to BlindedMeWithScience
Tennessee, Florida, Georgia.
It felt like we got fricked with scheduling. We lost all our "rivals" off the schedule.
It felt like we got fricked with scheduling. We lost all our "rivals" off the schedule.
Posted on 2/8/24 at 9:23 am to BlindedMeWithScience
Georgia - it's a more overlapping series in everyday life in SC - from the CSRA through the Midlands and Lowcountry SC & Lowcountry GA -
Carolina & Georgia first met in 1894 -
the border feud has been played yearly since 1958 except for 5 seasons - 1965 - 1972 - 1973 and oddly 1990 & 1991 - before resuming in SEC play in 1992 -
Columbia & Athens are roughly 134 miles apart as the crow flies - 155 miles if you drive from Cola to Athens through Calhoun Falls/Elberton passing over the lake from SC into GA - a much more enjoyable ride over than the freeways -
Tennessee & Florida will also be missed - strange -
Carolina & Georgia first met in 1894 -
the border feud has been played yearly since 1958 except for 5 seasons - 1965 - 1972 - 1973 and oddly 1990 & 1991 - before resuming in SEC play in 1992 -
Columbia & Athens are roughly 134 miles apart as the crow flies - 155 miles if you drive from Cola to Athens through Calhoun Falls/Elberton passing over the lake from SC into GA - a much more enjoyable ride over than the freeways -
Tennessee & Florida will also be missed - strange -
Posted on 2/8/24 at 9:33 am to BlindedMeWithScience
handa down it'd be LSU.... LSU vs Auburn every September had become fun & a good barometer for how our season might go... one of the hardest hitting games I've ever seen was the 7 - 3 game in Sept 2006. damn game was a defensive knockdown slugfest with folks being carted off everafukkinwhere.. neither team wanted to give an inch - much less a first down.
both teams were ranked in the top10...
the defenses were playing for keeps - LSU had not given up a touchdown since the previous year's SEC championship. (16qtrs)
we scored on a QB sneak w/Brandon Cox
Tubs after the game..
ESPN game recap
LSU every September had become the game i looked forward to every year during the off season.. definitely be weird this year without one![](https://images.tigerdroppings.com/Images/Icons/Iconcheers.gif)
both teams were ranked in the top10...
the defenses were playing for keeps - LSU had not given up a touchdown since the previous year's SEC championship. (16qtrs)
we scored on a QB sneak w/Brandon Cox
Tubs after the game..
quote:
It was a very violent game," Tuberville said. "There was
more speed than I've seen on the field in a long time. It's hard to
find a loser in that game.
"Our guys played like champions. When you look at the score and
the stats, everybody would think it was a boring game but there was
a lot of excitement."
ESPN game recap
LSU every September had become the game i looked forward to every year during the off season.. definitely be weird this year without one
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