CFB News says UT vs. Oklahoma St. in Liberty Bowl

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Going to go ahead and book my tickets if possible.. JK

I wouldn't want to play them. Other than a W in the Win column and Pruitt winning his first bowl game, I don't think we gain anything by beating them.
 
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Going to go ahead and book my tickets if possible.. JK

I wouldn't want to play them. Other than a W in the Win column and Pruitt winning his first bowl game, I don't think we gain anything by beating them.

Any win we get in the upcoming season is something to build on. A lot of fans including myself, were excited about Gundy possibly being UT's coach. A win would make most UT fans feel better about the CJP hire.
 
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I would love for the Vols to play OK St. and spank their butt. Mostly because their coach played us like a fiddle to get more money.
 
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After last years disaster, I would love the fact that we simply made it to ANY bowl this year.
 
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CFB News is always 100% correct.

Honestly, ANY bowl invitation is a step forward. There are other possibilities I would prefer but "home for the holidays" is not one of 'em.


GO BIG ORANGE!
 
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If we end up in the Liberty Bowl against OK State, then it means we did better than expected, and OK State has dropped to 4th in the Big 12.

Though, with Texas looking to have a much better season in year 2 under Herman, and Matt Campbell working magic at Iowa State, I'd say there's a chance that Gundy might be looking at his team being 5th or lower in the conference.
 
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Why are we playing them, when we can still win the east, and go play in the SEC championship game? You all realize that, Georgia and Florida can be beat by Pruitt. 👍
 
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We now probably know who we will not be playing or where.

I looked at last years's CBS preseason Bowl projections done by Jerry Palm. Out of the 39 bowl games that he projected, even with the benefit of conference tie-ins to most of the bowls, he predicted correctly only one matchup (NW vs Kentucky in the Music City). He also predicted correctly only 9 of the 78 teams in the correct bowl (Army in the Armed Forces which was already arranged, Toledo in the dollar general, Iowa in the Pinstripe, Navy in the Military, Stanford in the Alamo, NW/KY, Washington in Fiesta, and Bama in the Sugar).

So, Palm had only about a 12% rate placing teams in a bowl, and less than 3% success rate predicting the actual matchup. A pecking chicken could probably fare better. My guess is that other predictors have similar "success" rates.
 
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CFB news has more confidence in CPJ then some of our fanbase has at the moment. Hope they're right! We shall see.
 

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