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I don't know what is gleaned by comparing Dana Holgorsen's team last year to Butch Jones' team last year. Dana is going to have to play Jeremy Pruitt's team tomorrow. I think there's a big difference. One will probably be a bit improved from last year; the other has never been seen before. Jeremy Pruitt is going into Charlotte with a huge talent advantage and while there are no guarantees, I like our chances. jmo.
 
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SugarCC said:
Remember that massive brawl, can't remember who it was against, maybe Padres?...Bob Horner had that broke arm and a cast/weapon on?
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He never didn’t look like a gym coach who got plucked off a slow pitch softball team...4 homer game tho!
 
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Austins Pick

Two months ago I was definitely taking West Virginia. Then Tennessee got healthier and deeper. Throw in that the more I look at West Virginia, the more I just am not that impressed compared to the double-digit line. They were feast or famine last season. It’s easy to see why they have the hype. Can Tennessee get to Will Grier? Will the young playmakers in the secondary hold up? And what about Tennessee’s offense?
Lets start with the latter, as I’ve always been partial to Jarrett Guarantano. Nobody wants to be the player and leader you dream about more than him. He eats up every bit of Tennessee football. This is a potential statement game for him. No it’s not going to catapult him into some award discussion, but it can establish his arrival if he plays well. He needs help though, as the running game has to be good.
On defense, who makes the plays? I don’t think anyone has a feel for that because this unit has been terrible for the past two seasons. I’m going to ride Darrell Taylor and Kyle Phillips to get there and make a difference. I’m also betting on Treyvon Flowers to get an interception.
Maybe West Virginia will be who many think they are. But to quote someone we all know, “I have to see it to believe it.”
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Simontons pick

I do not know how Tennessee will perform on Saturday.
Hell, Jeremy Pruitt doesn’t either.
“What am I going to see on Saturday? I don’t know,” he said when I asked about his team’s ability to respond to adversity.
“If I knew that we wouldn’t play the game probably. We’ll see.”
Yes we will. Finally.
It’s a been a long, long offseason, but the Vols have a chance to make a statement Saturday that perhaps the program's turnaround won’t be as tumultuous as some expect.
While neither Pruitt or myself know how this showdown against No. 17 West Virginia will ultimately shake out, I feel confident in saying that Tennessee should not be a 10-point underdog.
Most every analytical model agrees, with most not even considering the Mountaineers a Top 25 team.
The Vols can absolutely win this game. I’m just not sure they have enough firepower to make it happen in the end.
I expect Tennessee run the ball well and make Will Grier uncomfortable at times, but many of the same players who were on the field getting torched by Vanderbilt in the season finale in 2017 will be counted on heavily Saturday.
Perhaps they’ve dramatically improved under better coaching. We simply have no evidence of that yet.
Really, my biggest skepticism in picking against Tennessee is the confidence Pruitt and his staff have exuded about this game. Make no mistake, there’s no faux belief in that building. They expect to leave Charlotte 1-0.
In the end, I just don’t see Tyson Helton’s unit mustering up quite enough points to keep pace.
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Only two picks that matter. Guys picking WVU clearly don't know what their talking about.

AUSTIN'S PICK
Two months ago I was definitely taking West Virginia. Then Tennessee got healthier and deeper. Throw in that the more I look at West Virginia, the more I just am not that impressed compared to the double-digit line. They were feast or famine last season. It’s easy to see why they have the hype. Can Tennessee get to Will Grier? Will the young playmakers in the secondary hold up? And what about Tennessee’s offense?
Lets start with the latter, as I’ve always been partial to Jarrett Guarantano. Nobody wants to be the player and leader you dream about more than him. He eats up every bit of Tennessee football. This is a potential statement game for him. No it’s not going to catapult him into some award discussion, but it can establish his arrival if he plays well. He needs help though, as the running game has to be good.
On defense, who makes the plays? I don’t think anyone has a feel for that because this unit has been terrible for the past two seasons. I’m going to ride Darrell Taylor and Kyle Phillips to get there and make a difference. I’m also betting on Treyvon Flowers to get an interception.
Maybe West Virginia will be who many think they are. But to quote someone we all know, “I have to see it to believe it.”
Tennessee 30 West Virginia 27


ROB'S PICK
I’ve gone back and forth all week long on what to do here.
On the one hand, I think you’re going to see a Tennessee team come out and play a disciplined, physical brand of football. On the other hand, one of the worst defenses in college football from a year ago, in a new scheme with a lot of the same faces, is facing an experienced and talented quarterback working with an experienced and talented group of receivers.
I don’t see anyway that West Virginia doesn’t put some points up. I don’t mean 40+, but if they can get close to 30, I don’t know if Tennessee can keep pace. Not without some momentum swinging turnovers or a big play on special teams.
Jeremy Pruitt just so happen to have an extremely well-earned reputation as a defensive backs guru and an architect of defenses that feast on turnovers. Two areas that just so happen look like spots where the Vols need to knock it out of the park this weekend. Can he produce results in his very first game as head coach? Seems like a tough ask.
I’ve felt for a couple of weeks now that the Vols’ offensive line is the most improved area of this team and I think that will show up on Saturday. I also think it will need to. I think a Tennessee victory will probably require a dominant rushing performance, in the neighborhood of 200+ yards.
Can they do it? Against a West Virginia defense that finished last in the Big 12 in defending the run last year, that doesn’t seem outlandish.
And with that, I’ve just talked myself into it.
If Tennessee wins the turnover battle and runs the ball effectively, keeping Guarantano in favorable down and distances while limiting West Virginia’s offensive possessions, I’m calling the upset.

Tennessee 30, West Virginia 27
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WesTnVol said:
This will date me but I think it was Art Shell of the Raiders(OL-tackle I think) use to put cast on his forearms slip a pad over them and club
the heck out of D linemen. Football was different back then and I loved the Raiders as a kid. 00 Jim Otto center was one of my favorite!!
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Germans film Jim Otto walking around his house. They like long, painful drawn out images.
 
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