re: Three permanent SEC rivals revealed for Tennessee, per report

No way. This can’t be!

Not bad. Pretty much can count on 2 out of 3 regular season wins.

Looks like 2 out of 3 (soon to be 3 out of 4) for VOLS

Glad y’all had a nice little run with Saban though

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Richard G West is a fake reporter.

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This is true so I take this with a grain of salt.

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My goodness. They must have looked at Tennessee’s record the past 20 years and said, “That poor program needs help.”

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If Auburn played every team they've faces over 100 times...it would only be Georgia that they would play.

Tennessee has played Vanderbilt 114 times:
18 more times than Auburn has played Mississippi State
29 more times than Auburn has played Florida
31 more than Auburn has played Bama

Tennessee has played Kentucky 108 times:
12 more times than Auburn has played Mississippi State
23 more times than Auburn has played Florida
28 more times than Auburn has played Bama

Tennessee has played Bama 106 times:
10 more times than Auburn has played Mississippi State
21 more times than Auburn has played Florida
26 more times than Auburn has played Bama

So, I guess we just throw out (SEC series with over 100 games played):
Auburn/Georgia (121)
Georgia/Florida (103)
Bama/Mississippi State (104)
Ole Miss/Mississippi State (117)
Ole Miss/LSU (108)
LSU/Mississippi State (114)

That's it. There are 9 SEC series that are over 100 games played, and 3 of them involve Tennessee.

Besides those three series...the next most played series for Tennessee is Ole Miss at 66 games...The drop from 3rd most played series to 4th most played is a difference of 40 games.

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VOLS run this conference

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VOLS runs their mouths

This rival stuff is so fake.

The only team with 3 real rivals is Texas.

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They must have looked at Tennessee’s record the past 20 years and said, “That poor program needs help.”

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vs Bama 40-60-7
vs Vanderbilt 81-32-5
vs Kentucky 85-26-9

Sheesh.

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Most wins vs Alabama:

1. Tennessee - 39
2. Auburn - 32
3. LSU - 26
4. Georgia - 25
5. Georgia Tech - 21
6. Vanderbilt - 19
7. Miss St. - 16
8. Florida - 14
9. Ole Miss - 9
10. Sewanee - 8
10. Texas - 8
10 - Tulane - 8
13. Arkansas - 7...

16. Oklahoma - 4
19. USCe - 3
19. aTm - 3
27. Kentucky - 2
27. Missouri - 2

Most losses to Vanderbilt:
1. Kentucky - 38
2. Ole Miss - 36
3. Sewanee - 31
4. Tennessee - 29
5. Alabama - 19

Most losses to Kentucky:

1. Vanderbilt - 49
2. Miss St. - 24
3. Florida - 21
4. Tennessee - 20
5. LSU - 17

The Georgia-Tennessee matchup has a lot of recent history as an SEC East matchup, but doesn’t really have a lot of history other than that. Like LSU and Auburn, UGA and Tennessee rarely played before the divisions.

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So, I guess we just throw out (SEC series with over 100 games played)

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Auburn was Florida’s most played opponent in their history through 2002, and the SEC ended that series to fit a new scheduling format.

Yes, rivalries should try to be protected to some point. But the argument of, “We’ve always played these two SEC bottom-feeders so we should always get to play the two bottom-feeders” is not really a compelling argument.

No team should get the luxury of playing both Vandy and Kentucky every single season.