The Official Tennessee vs. Purdue Music City Bowl Game Thread, 3:00 PM ET, ESPN

[Megatron88]

How do you get to the Two yard line in OT and throw the ball instead of Running it ? I don't understand

 

[C-south]

Oh, so the whistle is irrelevant?? Ref just gets to decide and then, some time later, blow the whistle??

Bull........

If they can throw a flag 10 seconds after a play for PI then they should be able to be proven wrong when they "thought" a play was over.

 

[GetYouSomeofThat]

Seriously....who can I email at the Big Ten? I'm going to give them the equivalent of a burning mattress in their inbox.

Send it to rhr ACC officials office

 

[TooLegit2Quit]

Purdue was complete trash and their QB looks like a child diddler.

 

[tnvols72]

400 of that against Burrell

I hope he is a SR

 

[JohnWardForever]

A no call on obvious holding/PI on our last drive, and that NO WHISTLE blew TD in ot.

 

[VOLnVANDYland]

Should have never went for it. You kick the fg and let your defense win or lose

He made the right call. Refs robbed us a TD how can anyone argue this?

 

[66volfan]

We deserved to lose and refs made sure we got what we deserved.

 

[LakeMaryFLVol]

Plenty of suckage to go around for the big mfin orange today.

The bull fighting o’le tacking techniques against that tight end was the death nail

 

[DEFENDTHISHOUSE]

I’ll say this, Better play management on the final drive ie not throwing those two stupid passes we win at the end of regulation

 

[ButchPlz]

TN. Played. Terrible.

I hate it as much as anyone but we just did not execute tonight.

We clearly executed on that TD and it was called back.

 

[BearCat204]

This was the worst jobbing I have ever seen with UT sports......ever. Almost as bad as the play calling on the last drive during regulation.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

Refs were awful, but Heupel’s play calling on the last drive in regulation was just dumb

Play might have worked if Tillman did not have his jersey blatantly held for 10 yards down the field after he beat the CB in 1 on 1 coverage....

 

[Volsfannn]

Not the school’s call. When it comes to the Music City/Outback/Duke’s Mayo/Liberty/Texas/Gator Bowls, the conference places who goes where.

Forfeit then. UT's track record is awful.

 

[casetopia]

Why were acc refs used? Thought it was supposed to be neither teams conference?

 

[GrizzlyVol]

Say what you want, but Purdue was short handed and we played like crap on defense. Despite that, Heupel lost this game all on his own with his stupid play calling. THIS is why UCF fans were not that upset about him leaving. He's looking a lot like the second coming of Hal Mumme. Dumbass play calls.

Not having Taylor at corner hurt

 

[CNCVol88]

Out coached

Out refereed

 

[MADISONGAVOL]

Does any other team get horrible officiating as often as the Vols?

And of course our fans are going cry about everything. Dude threw 3 picks and we lost. We deserved to lose. Yall are pathetic guys wth

 

[Powder and shot]

Score Downs and we don’t put it in the hands of refs

 

[chef3531]

23 class better be freaking heavy on defense

 

[MAD]

This game has to end in some nutty way.

You called it

 

[GAVol]

Did the officials on the field make the call or was it made by Officials in the head office? I’m not sure how it works.

The guy on the field ruled forward progress has stopped. Everything stops when that happens.

 

[GetEmVols]

Bad calls all game. But why the hell did we have 20 seconds and three timeouts and we only needed 7 yards. We throw 3 bombs? Dumb

 

[JohnD13]

Seriously....who can I email at the Big Ten? I'm going to give them the equivalent of a burning mattress in their inbox.

ACC officials

 

[CNCVol88]

Why were acc refs used? Thought it was supposed to be neither teams conference?

Purdue is B1G