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re: The top 5 teams next year

Posted on 1/19/16 at 12:38 pm to
Posted by SummerOfGeorge
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Posted on 1/19/16 at 12:38 pm to
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It would take a real perfect storm for UTee to go worse than 9-3 (6-3), with an realistic upside of 11-1 (7-1).


Yep, I agree. They'd have to lose a game to a team with significantly less talent than them to finish worse than 9-3, and honestly that includes losing to a Florida team that they have ZERO business losing to at home. But, we have said that quite a few times the last 10 years, so that is really the only reason we keep all saying it could be a loss.
Posted by Ericvol2096
Charleston, SC
Member since May 2013
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Posted on 1/19/16 at 3:13 pm to
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Yep, I agree. They'd have to lose a game to a team with significantly less talent than them to finish worse than 9-3, and honestly that includes losing to a Florida team that they have ZERO business losing to at home. But, we have said that quite a few times the last 10 years, so that is really the only reason we keep all saying it could be a loss


When have we said that again? I am tired of the narrative that the SUPERIOR TN team has been BLOWING IT to the terrible Gator program the last 10 years.

From 05-10 Florida had Urban Meyer. They were hardly some slouch program that we were screwing it up by losing to them. Were we as good or a little better than them in 05-07, possibly but it was at worst an even matchup.

In 08-2013 We were straight garbage and losing to them wasn't some auto win for TN.

2014 in Knoxville was probably an even matchup going into the game. We should have won, but once again it isn't like our team was some juggernaut that year who lost to a team full of scrubs.

This year was a road game against a team that at the time had a hot QB and it went down to the final second.



So really there isn't one game the past 11 years that makes TN as ALWAYS losing games to the Gators they have ZERO business losing.

This year will actually be the first year that is the case and I doubt we lose.

#EndRant
This post was edited on 1/19/16 at 3:15 pm
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