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[Johnny Majors' Ghost]

The Right Reverend has always been an honest man.

Hugh Freeze shares thoughts on Auburn job after Liberty’s upset of Arkansas

 

[#Vol4Life1991]

Look at this and he is a jinx. Wish he would’ve picked uga yesterday lol

 

[BigSteve09]

Our consolation prize being the Sugar Bowl or Orange Bowl does not bother me at all, by the way.

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

I doubt there will be enough excitement for a rematch between #1 UGA and #4 UT. A #2 OSU/UM vs #3 UT would be a very desirable matchup, and if UT had played UGA close in a competitive game, I think that ranking would have been penciled in. Vols need to dominate the next three games and hope the dominos fall UT's way. There will be headwinds with putting two SEC teams in the playoffs with the way this weekend played out.

We lost by 14. Oregon lost by forty plus. Playoff committee will put us in if we win out. They have short term memory and will look at overall records and SOS.

 

[#Vol4Life1991]

We lost by 14. Oregon lost by forty plus. Playoff committee will put us in if we win out. They have short term memory and will look at overall records and SOS.

Oregon isn’t winning out.

 

[BigSteve09]

Didn't the committee prove in the last few years that the conference championships mean next to nothing to them?

 

[LadyVolette]

Yeah, I think we would have had more PI calls if we had thrown to the players being held. Of course, there was a blatant non-call at the end, so who knows. Regardless, we were out of rhythm from the start and just could not get it back. The receivers looked like they were running soft routes too, but that’s hard to see on TV.
It’s such a precision game—if you’re not feeling it, you’re not making the plays against a team like Georgia.

It also seemed like they cut to commercial every minute and a half

 

[#Vol4Life1991]

It also seemed like they cut to commercial every minute and a half

Hate cbs so much. Their college games are prolonged due to commercials

 

[volfanCLT]

Oregon? Get out of here with that. We have way better wins and their loss to a common opponent was infinitely worse.

No chance the committee has them higher this week.

 

[KPT_VFL]

Hooker was not himself but it’s also hard to get in a rhythm when your drives are stalled with false start after false start.

 

[WebbCobb]

Those plays were there, but I still think the biggest issue is that our offense is too stubborn about pushing the ball deep in the passing game. UGA was willing to vacate the middle of the field, especially in the 10-15 yard window when they blitzed and Hooker usually didn't have a single option to get rid of the ball quick. I blame many of the sacks on him holding the ball too long due to most receivers running 15+ yards down the field. Sometimes you have to just take what's there and be smarter about when you take your shots deep. I think a rematch would come with a much better plan on offense from Heupel.

I was wondering yesterday if it’s up to the receiver to recognize the blitz and adjust. On one of UGA’s blitzes, he ran right by Hyatt. If Hyatt curls, cuts in, or even slants into the vacated area, it’s an easy 12-15 yard pitch and catch. Instead he continued towards the deep safety on a longer route

 

[Vols2DaWall]

Season isn’t over, still have 3 games left.

Can’t be looking forward to the playoffs, gotta take care of business first

*5 games left

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

Oregon isn’t winning out.

Oh I agree. Season will work itself out. TCU and Oregon will both lose soon. And then we just have to handle our business and we will get in.

 

[smokeyhuntsgators]

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Love this

And this..

 

[Aesius]

I hope there isn’t an overreaction to what happened yesterday in terms of play calling the rest of the way. UGA is probably the only team that can do what they did to us. Mizzou and USC will try to copy it and we need to burn them when they do.

 

[Volnut]

Doug Mathews points out on his show today that if Tennessee wins out, it will only be the 2nd time in program history that Tennessee has won 11 games in the regular season.

Of course '98 is the only other time and you have to account that were many years in history where the season was less than 11 games, but still shows what an amazing season this still is.

 

[BigSteve09]

Next week:
Colorado at USC
Indiana at Ohio St
Washington at Oregon
Arizona at UCLA
Stanford at Utah
Mizzou at Tennessee
LSU at Arkansas
Louisville at Clemson
Nebraska at Michigan
Alabama at Ole Miss
Georgia at Miss St
Kansas St at Baylor
TCU at Texas

Still some opportunity for things to move around. As long as we dominate Mizzou we will be 4-6.

The next week:
Tenn at SCar
Ohio St at Maryland
Georgia at Kentucky
Miami at Clemson
Illinois at Michigan
TCU at Baylor
Utah at Oregon
USC at UCLA
UAB at LSU
Ole Miss at Arkansas
K State at WVU
Austin Peay at Bama

Final Week:
Miss St at Ole Miss
UCLA at Cal
Vols at Vandy
Ga Tech at UGA
SCar at Clemson
Auburn at Bama
Iowa St at TCU
Oregon at Oregon St
Notre Dame at USC
LSU at TAMU
Kansas at K State
Utah at Colorado
Mich St at Penn St
Illinois at NW
WVU at Ok St
Mich at Ohio St


The point is, there is a lot of football left to play this month. We have survived all of our hardest tests, and we have some opportunities to pad our standing. In the meantime, we get to watch everyone else around us fight for their lives.

Given that TCU has had the luxury of playing mostly backup QBs this season, I think they will run into some real tests now.

The PAC 12 teams will all take care of each other.

Lots of spoiler opportunities for rivals in the final week of the season.

The trendy SEC teams on our heels will start taking each other out.

 

[smokeyhuntsgators]

Birmingham bowl working behind the scenes to get bama

 

[vol4eva]

A TCU or Oregon loss and we’re practically guaranteed a playoff spot.

 

[SoilVol]

Still can't get over Kirby's transfer player comments. Like he didn't do unholy things for Arik Gilbert, Tykee Smith, Kendrick, Jamie Newman, JT Daniels, even Eli Wolf etc.

To sit there and act like you're above the portol after having two classes ranked #2 for transfer portal in the past 4-5 years.

 

[DeepPurpleFloyd]

i watched LSU-Bama last night and visited Bama forum this morning.. talk about entertainment.. Saban is tired, he’s 71, Golding and O’Brian have got to go, they are going traveling because the season is over, Sankey does not want them to hire Pruitt back as a defensive coordinator, but they need to do it anyway…

Probably best at this point for Saban to just retire and hire Pruitt as both defensive coordinator and head coach.

 

[LA Vol]

We lost by 14. Oregon lost by forty plus. Playoff committee will put us in if we win out. They have short term memory and will look at overall records and SOS.

The committee has flexibility in which metrics they want to apply and how they weight them. And they will weight the best matchups, because that's the engine that drives everything. There will be little appetite for an SEC-SEC rehash. So assuming UGA, not OSU/UM is #1, they'll have to justify ranking UT #3... which can be done if the dominos fall the right way. But there are too many variables and too many games and championships to be played to know how the dominos will fall.

 

[vol4eva]

Even IF TCU and Oregon win out, we STILL might make the playoffs.

Odds are pretty good right now we earn a playoff spot.

 

[drvenner]

This list is as of Feb 2022. Not sure if it's been updated since then. Not sure if this bodes ill or well for us. Barnhart was here for a short stint in the AD? I am not sure. Big 10 has three affiliations. Big 12 and Pac 12 have two and SEC has one. One could argue that Slocum is an SEC affiliation.

 

[drvenner]

In the Moran Invitational, I drafted Mordecai…………………..and dropped him last week.

I knew somebody had him, LOL. Ai chihuahua.