How do you react to the following scenario?

#29
#29
He_Made_It said:
Neu Georgia Tech - Win
Vs. Indiana State - Win
@ Florida - Win
Vs. UMass - Win
Vs. Georgia - Win
Bye
Vs. USCe - Win
@ Alabama - Win (Upset of this century for UT)
@ Kentucky - Loss (Potential trap game - especially after a victory over Bama)
Vs. Southern Miss - Win
Vs. LSU - Loss (Heartbreaking loss - yet, again - to LSU)
@ Missouri - Loss (Unable to recover on the road from previous week)
Vs. Vanderbilt - Win (Big)

- Florida, Georgia, and/or Kentucky finishes 1st in SEC East with two SEC losses.

- Tennessee goes on to finish 10-3 with a 14+ point win against a strong Top 15 team in Bowl (Citrus or below).
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It would show that Butch can't handle expectations and that he may be ready to go to Colorado. Beating Bama and losing to Kentucky AND Missouri is a wash. I hate Bama as much as anyone but beating them shouldn't make up for losing to two horrible teams.
 
#31
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volfannbama said:
Would be nice to beat Alabama, but would add to the trend that CBJ cant get it done by losing a game he has no business losing (Mizzu)

I think CBJ gets another year regardless of the scenerio, but more for his coaching abilities rather than his coaching abilities.
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#33
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How any vol fan could find it acceptable to lose to UK is beyond baffling. If you can beat Alabama, Florida and Georgia yet lose to Kentucky and Missouri, then you need a new head football coach.
 
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#34
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BigOrangeTrain said:
How any vol fan could find it acceptable to lose to UK is beyond baffling. If you can beat Alabama, Florida and Georgia yet lose to Kentucky and Missouri, then you need a new head football coach.
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How any Clemson fan would find it acceptable to lose to a 5-4 Pitt team that got trashed the week before by Miami is baffling as well. Then you have SMU beating Houston which should have never happened. Almost every week last season there was 1, sometimes 2 and I believe one week there may have been 3 such games.

The point is - good teams sometimes lose to teams that aren't as good. It happens. Why do you think Tennessee should be immune?

I do agree - it should not happen - but if we learned anything from college football last year it should be that a team and their fans must take every game seriously and not assume anything is given.
 
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volfan102455 said:
How any Clemson fan would find it acceptable to lose to a 5-4 Pitt team that got trashed the week before by Miami is baffling as well. Then you have SMU beating Houston which should have never happened. Almost every week last season there was 1, sometimes 2 and I believe one week there may have been 3 such games.

The point is - good teams sometimes lose to teams that aren't as good. It happens. Why do you think Tennessee should be immune?

I do agree - it should not happen - but if we learned anything from college football last year it should be that a team and their fans must take every game seriously and not assume anything is given.
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iirc and add Kentucky beating Louisville and their Heisman QB
 
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#36
#36
Well this scenario is better than losing to Bama UGA UF and managing to lose one of Mizzou or UK. However, I don't want to lose any games at all.
 
#37
#37
After watching GT play UK in our bowl game I can confidently say they are vastly overrated.

UT will handle them.
 
#38
#38
BigOrangeTrain said:
How any vol fan could find it acceptable to lose to UK is beyond baffling. If you can beat Alabama, Florida and Georgia yet lose to Kentucky and Missouri, then you need a new head football coach.
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2016 was pretty much as sickening as this scenario. Of course no win against Bama, but change out Missouri and UK for Vandy and USCjr.
 
#39
#39
Can everybody please get this notion out of their heads that Kentucky will ever contend for anything other than a lower tier bowl?
 
#41
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He_Made_It said:
Neu Georgia Tech - Win
Vs. Indiana State - Win
@ Florida - Win
Vs. UMass - Win
Vs. Georgia - Win
Bye
Vs. USCe - Win
@ Alabama - Win (Upset of this century for UT)
@ Kentucky - Loss (Potential trap game - especially after a victory over Bama)
Vs. Southern Miss - Win
Vs. LSU - Loss (Heartbreaking loss - yet, again - to LSU)
@ Missouri - Loss (Unable to recover on the road from previous week)
Vs. Vanderbilt - Win (Big)

- Florida, Georgia, and/or Kentucky finishes 1st in SEC East with two SEC losses.

- Tennessee goes on to finish 10-3 with a 14+ point win against a strong Top 15 team in Bowl (Citrus or below).
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I can see the logic of the Kentucky loss, but if we beat Bama and Florida, we aren't losing to both Kentucky and Missouri. More likely a Kentucky loss would solidify resolve and we win out.
 
#43
#43
dduncan4163 said:
We beat UGA, Fla, and Bama but loose to CanTurkey and Mizzou? It would be laughable but after last season anything is possible. Honestly who would have believed we'd beast VT, Neb, UGA, and UF but loose to Vandy and USCjr?
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College football is a game played by immature young adults with an oblong ball that takes strange bounces. If the most talented team always wins then Bama would win every game
 
#44
#44
I don't react to it. I didn't bother reading it. If I don't obsess about how the season plays out during the summer, I have found I enjoy it more in the fall.

But hey, feel free to work yourselves up.
 
#45
#45
A team that beats Alabama isn't going to lose to Kentucky and Missouri.
 
#46
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Coug said:
A team that beats Florida and Georgia Alabama isn't going to lose to South Carolina Kentucky and Vanderbilt Missouri.
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There is no transitive property in college football, and every season that fact is reaffirmed on numerous occasions.
 
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