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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
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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 4:10 am to wadewilson
Auburn want be playing LSU, Ole Miss, or Miss St regularly anymore. But when the SEC split we lost Tennessee and Florida. We got use to that. Will miss playing Saban in Jordan Hare.
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 6:23 am to BlindedMeWithScience
Auburn vs LSU
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 6:45 am to BlindedMeWithScience
LSU
Posted on 2/8/24 at 6:47 am to JayAg
You’re the only Aggie that thinks this. That game sucks.
I will miss playing Bama. Since the atmosphere is insane. But I guess since saban gone it won’t the the same anyway
I will miss playing Bama. Since the atmosphere is insane. But I guess since saban gone it won’t the the same anyway
Posted on 2/8/24 at 7:21 am to BlindedMeWithScience
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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 7:23 am to CockHolliday
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That game was actually in Columbia
Fixed, thank you
Posted on 2/8/24 at 7:27 am to Lonnie Utah
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Legit cost SC a spot in the SEC title game.
You got your revenge in '22 for sure.
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.
We play everyone else. 
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 Hback
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The 90 Mile Drive, State. We've played them 107 times, more than any opponent.
I thought that one should have been kept over LSU due to proximity.
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