We have a coach and staff who has no earthly idea what the Florida fuss is about.
Ive come around. You guys have me convinced. Theres no excuse for a Gators loss in 2018. Lets look at the evidence.
According to VolNation:
1) We have equal to or greater talent than UF
2) Pruitt is the better coach because the majority here would rather have him over Mullen
3) Obvious home field advantage
4) Gonna get corched up
5) Gonna punch em in the mouff
6) Gonna play outta our minds
7) Cause Tony Burnhard sez so
Now the question is do we win by 2 touchdowns or 3?
Not sure where you've been, but we haven't had a real home field advantage since the late 90s. That was one of my big disappointments with Fulmer in his last 7-8 years as to how we sort of lost our home field advantage and haven't really gotten it back since
In Fulmer's next to last season in 2007, Tennessee went 7-0 at home with a 21 point win over Georgia who finished ranked #3.
OK...in 2001 we got beat at home by Georgia.
IN 2002 we got BLOWN OUT at home by Florida, Alabama and Miami.
In 2003 we got blown out at home by Georgia
In 2004 we got blown out by Auburn at home and beat by a mediocre Notre Dame at hom
In 2005.......no need to rehash those debacles
In 2006 lost at home to Florida and LSU
2007 was an exception.
Sorry
It's like he put them on a pedestal for being Florida. It's like no matter how good we were the teams that meant the most were the ones we lost.Yeah. With the notable exception of 2016, Butch was always very conservative in the 4th quarter vs Florida. He looked nervous and the team followed his lead. If he was still the coach, I would expect us to lose yet another close game this year in unique and creative fashion... but he's not and bringing up the past just doesn't seem as relevant.
In 2001, the Georgia game was our only home loss. In 2002, Tennessee simply wasn't very good. In 2003, Georgia was once again our only home loss. In 2004, Auburn went undefeated and Tennessee would have beaten Notre Dame if not for the injury to Erik Ainge just before halftime. In 2005, Tennessee was once again not very good. In 2006, Florida won the National Championship but Tennessee almost pulled the upset at home... LSU won the Sugar Bowl that year and that game was also close.
In the years when Tennessee had good teams under Fulmer, they were also very strong at home (but not perfect - not many teams are)
In the 2000s as I stated in my post, we weren't very good at home.
Sorry
And that's not true. There were in fact 4 years (2000, 2001, 2003 and 2007) when Tennessee lost 1 or fewer games at home and 2 other seasons (2004, 2006) when they lost only twice at home. You call anything short of perfection "not very good" when your competition includes teams as good as Auburn in '04 and Florida and LSU in '06?
WE were favored against both Florida and LSU in 2006. We were clearly better than Notre Dame as well. Should have beat them regardless of Ainge's injury. That loss was on our coaches
Obviously we have completely different standards. I stand by my post
I don't remember what the lines were in '06 but I do remember that Florida won the National Championship that year with a defense as good as any I've seen.