Ranking 15 Teams Capable of Winning 2017/2018 National Championship

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VolinMC said:
I agree with what you're saying,it needs to stay on topic. I was posting with someone else in another thread about this very thing.....
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If only the site had moderators, people with the power to help keep threads on topic....
 
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Webbvol32 said:
Precisely! Other fans make a fake account and pull for us. But they complain,whine,amd say how bad we suck. We have to stay positive and 100% VOL us true fans
Don't let recruits see nothing but negavol. Go Vols!
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Recruits don't make up their mind when they read a message board. You're more of a Butch Jones fan.
 
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Doberman said:
Tee Martin?
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Indeed, how quickly we forget.

Our last national championship came with a largely-untested Junior QB at the helm, a backup for two years, starting for the first time in a season most figured would be a step back....

Sounds strangely familiar.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Indeed, how quickly we forget.

Our last national championship came with a largely-untested Junior QB at the helm, a backup for two years, starting for the first time in a season most figured would be a step back....

Sounds strangely familiar.
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Well, it has been nearly 20 years but you're correct.
 
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Boca Vol said:
Well, it has been nearly 20 years but you're correct.
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Seems very recent to an old fart like me. :ermm:

I won't say it seems like yesterday, but it sure doesn't seem like more than a handful of years. Time flies when you're old and having fun. :)
 
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m1al said:
Give me a break, there is a reason they call it "The Hail Mary"........
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true. but it was well executed by us, not by them. i can't explain for the life of me why they didn't have anyone in FRONT of Jennings on that play.

eh, who cares. it was awesome.:)
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Seems very recent to an old fart like me. :ermm:

I won't say it seems like yesterday, but it sure doesn't seem like more than a handful of years. Time flies when you're old and having fun. :)
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I still remember that trip like it was yesterday, but I can't remember what I had for breakfast. :loco:
 
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jakez4ut said:
true. but it was well executed by us, not by them. i can't explain for the life of me why they didn't have anyone in FRONT of Jennings on that play.

eh, who cares. it was awesome.:)
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I agree on UGA's defense being out of position. The defense knows the Hail Mary is coming, that's why I think its success is more a product of the defense screwing up than great execution on the part of the offense...

And yes, it definitely was awesome...
 
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BeardedVol said:
So you are likening those two plays to the fumble recovery, and the hail mary, in that won use the App State and Georgia games. Considering how much game was left to play, it's not a logical comparison. If we didn't recover the fumble, App State gets a chip shot field goal (see below before you get triggered), and if Georgia intercepts or breaks up the pass, they win. Those two scenarios are not anything like the "what if we didn't get this call in the 1st quarter against USCE, or what if we didn't fumble 7 times in the first quarter against A&M". Those two plays against App State, and Georgia, were 100% "luck" in our favor, otherwise, we would have been 6-6 had the opposing team been "lucky".



Yeah, I am banking on him hitting a 25 yard or less field goal, considering the for the year on FG attempts inside the 39 , he was 100% accurate.
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I'm happy for the kid, glad he was able to recover from a horrible kicking performance, but the fact remains in the 1st game of the season he missed an extra point and a late field goal. Improving during the rest of the season just means he fixed whatever was wrong in Knoxville.

For it to have been a 25 yd attempt he would have to kick from the 8. His missed field goal came when the ball was spotted at the 25. In OT App State ran their 4th down play from the 20. If they had kicked on 4th down it would have been 37 yards. I know you REALLY want that game to count as a loss, but even if we don't recover the fumble, that kid misses from 37 and we go to 2nd OT.
 
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Who knows how this season is gonna play out. An unknown Jr QB and what should be a very strong defense sounds a little familiar with an awesome season almost twenty years ago. Who the hell knows, im not even gonna throw out a prediction in the W/L column.
 
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checkerboards09 said:
Who knows how this season is gonna play out. An unknown Jr QB and what should be a very strong defense sounds a little familiar with an awesome season almost twenty years ago. Who the hell knows, im not even gonna throw out a prediction in the W/L column.
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After last year, you can't predict a strong defense right now. The good news is that Dormady is an upgrade in the passing game, and our WRs and OL will be better.
 
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checkerboards09 said:
Who knows how this season is gonna play out. An unknown Jr QB and what should be a very strong defense sounds a little familiar with an awesome season almost twenty years ago. Who the hell knows, im not even gonna throw out a prediction in the W/L column.
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"Very strong defense"?? I really hope so, but after what we saw last year, the second worst UT defense I think I've seen in my lifetime, I don't think we can predict that.
 
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Not sure why a coach that has never went higher than .500 in conference SEC play is included in NC list but oh well.

Butch save room for a NC ring on one of those fingers.
 
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m1al said:
I agree on UGA's defense being out of position. The defense knows the Hail Mary is coming, that's why I think its success is more a product of the defense screwing up than great execution on the part of the offense...

And yes, it definitely was awesome...
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Butch has given a breakdown of the play. It wasn't a Hail Mary which is everyone go deep and just toss it in that direction. This was a play 100% designed to go to JJ. UGA rushed 3 and dropped 8. Dobbs was under no pressure so he was able to look at Malone running to the right of the field. Malone was our top target and a decoy. By Dobbs looking it pulled a deep safety to the right corner of the end zone and the corner that had Malone out of the play so 6 on 3. Josh Smith stood at the goal line facing away from Dobbs to catch a deflection which pulled a defender to shadow him so 5 on 2. UGA had put their tallest player in who had no idea what to do, he literally stood at the back of the end zone, removing himself from the play so 4 on 2. Jason Croom got beside JJ and boxed out 3 defenders, pushing them away and not even making a play for the ball. This left the hungriest receiver on the field in a 1 on 1 jump ball situation. If that play had happened 10 times we easily catch it over 50%. Dobbs said his only concern was that he threw it too deep since JJ was supposed to be at the front of the end zone.
 
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