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Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:20 pm
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:20 pm
Serious question, what makes the TSIO so special? The rivalry is tilted in Alabama’s favor and is filled really with so many long steaks of one team dominating. It really isn’t back and forth. Is it more for the older fans? Do younger fans really care? Does it compare to the Iron Bowl? It seems like that game, at least for Alabama fans, has more juice. I’m not sure if UT has any other rival (Kentucky, Florida or Vanderbilt) that would come close. Does the game mean more to UT fans than Alabama fans?
This post was edited on 10/20/24 at 12:23 pm
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Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:27 pm to GentleJackJones
Of course it means more to us. It’s our Super Bowl but bigger. Beating Alabama is how Tennessee coaches become folk heroes. I don’t care how Alabama feels about it, it’s the biggest day of the year for every good Tennessean
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:31 pm to GentleJackJones
what makes the TSIO so special?
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To fans who paid attention before Saban, this was a very close rivalry. We've played Alabama more times than Auburn, >100 games. We've won more games against them than any team has, now 40 games. They've won 60 games. As of 1970, halfway way through the history, the series was a dead tie. There were quite a few runs, but Tennessee got their share until Saban. So for fans above a certain age, this is THE rivalry. I can't speak for younger fans, but I imagine they're getting the feel since we've now won 2 of 3.
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To fans who paid attention before Saban, this was a very close rivalry. We've played Alabama more times than Auburn, >100 games. We've won more games against them than any team has, now 40 games. They've won 60 games. As of 1970, halfway way through the history, the series was a dead tie. There were quite a few runs, but Tennessee got their share until Saban. So for fans above a certain age, this is THE rivalry. I can't speak for younger fans, but I imagine they're getting the feel since we've now won 2 of 3.
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:35 pm to BigScoreboard
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To fans who paid attention before Saban, this was a very close rivalry. We've played Alabama more times than Auburn, >100 games. We've won more games against them than any team has, now 40 games. They've won 60 games. As of 1970, halfway way through the history, the series was a dead tie. There were quite a few runs, but Tennessee got their share until Saban. So for fans above a certain age, this is THE rivalry. I can't speak for younger fans, but I imagine they're getting the feel since we've now won 2 of 3.
In the past 60 years Tennessee wins like 30% of the games. Your only times of real success were during the Doughnut Devil years while Alabama was in it's worse stretch. Outside that, you're a shitty team with history pre-1960 and some of the lamest NC claims in college football.
You didn't win yesterday because you are a good team. As usual Tennessee only wins when Alabama is having a bad year.
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:38 pm to 3down10
Show me on the doll where Smokey touched you
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:38 pm to GentleJackJones
HATRED and CONTEMPT
We don't just want to beat them. We don't want them to win one more game in anything.
We want to demoralizing and destroy them and send them to the dark ages again.
We don't just want to beat them. We don't want them to win one more game in anything.
We want to demoralizing and destroy them and send them to the dark ages again.
This post was edited on 10/20/24 at 12:40 pm
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:39 pm to GentleJackJones
Family. I have family on both sides of this and it’s a fun rivalry that we both take seriously but is a fun time to be around family.
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:39 pm to VAvolfan
True Tennessee fans and true Bama fans consider it their biggest rivalry. Smoke the cigars boys! You earned it!
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:41 pm to GentleJackJones
Also, I don’t really consider Florida a rival.
We’ve only played regularly since the divisions. Yeah, they were big games then, but no history like Alabama.
Felt like Auburn was more of a rival before ‘92.
We’ve only played regularly since the divisions. Yeah, they were big games then, but no history like Alabama.
Felt like Auburn was more of a rival before ‘92.
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:42 pm to PrideOfTheSouthland
Spurrier made them a rival and a game that determines the rest of our season most years.
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:42 pm to BigScoreboard
Bryant beat Tennessee 10 years in a row.
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:43 pm to VAvolfan
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Show me on the doll where Smokey touched you
Alabama vs Tennessee over my lifetime:
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:44 pm to GentleJackJones
I’m over sixty and yes the Tennessee game is special. Alabama and Tennessee built this conference in my lifetime. So congratulations to the Big Orange nation. They got it done yesterday and we didn’t.
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:45 pm to 3down10
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In the past 60 years Tennessee wins like 30% of the games. Your only times of real success were during the Doughnut Devil years while Alabama was in it's worse stretch. Outside that, you're a shitty team with history pre-1960 and some of the lamest NC claims in college football.
What a soft bitch you are.
So your wins vs us when we had shitty coaches and long down periods count, but our wins vs you when you had shitty coaches and down periods don't?
FOH
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:45 pm to coldbeerfan
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I’m over sixty and yes the Tennessee game is special. Alabama and Tennessee built this conference in my lifetime. So congratulations to the Big Orange nation. They got it done yesterday and we didn’t.
I second that! Almost 50
This post was edited on 10/20/24 at 12:48 pm
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:47 pm to 3down10
Holy salt
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:48 pm to ThoUpOrange
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What a soft bitch you are.
So your wins vs us when we had shitty coaches and long down periods count, but our wins vs you when you had shitty coaches and down periods don't?
FOH
Tennessee vs Alabama over my lifetime. Point to the me the games in which what I said is not true. The 4 wins together are the final year of Bear and 3 years of Perkins. The other stretch are those of Fulmer.
Sorry your win yesterday didn't change history.
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:49 pm to 3down10
quote:?!?! This coming from an Alabama fan? Saying another team has lamer NC claims than they do? OMG!
Outside that, you're a shitty team with history pre-1960 and some of the lamest NC claims in college football.
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:50 pm to 3down10
You are such a sore loser 
you are literally acting like a 12 year old
you are literally acting like a 12 year old 
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:51 pm to GentleJackJones
Easy answer: Prior to the 21st century, Alabama and Tennessee were by far the top two traditional programs in the SEC. If any team besides Alabama had an argument to be a blue blood, it was Tennessee. That and we share a pretty large border. Think of it like the Saban era Alabama/LSU rivalry except closer proximity and 7 decades of it.
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