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[Devo182]

We are being punished for playing in the SEC.

Lol because we are easily ranked the #1 1-loss team in the country?

Basically the opposite.

And UGA is the highest ranked undefeated team. And LSU (followed by Bama) is the highest ranked 2-loss team...

SEC means big wins. And some of that is helped by where teams begin (preseason rankings), because the Anchoring Bias is real. And preseason rankings are another place where the SEC (deservedly) gets the benefit of the doubt.

Teams like Clemson and USC are the ones getting punished because of their conference, and thus, their poor SOS.

 

[SoilVol]

ACC champion could still be a headache.

Clemson & UNC both still got 1 loss. Was really hoping Louisville or Wake Forest could upset one of them.

We may still be picked ahead of the ACC champs, but always nice for there to be no debate.

Don't see them as a threat at all. They both lost to Notre Dame. UNC lost to ND at home and nearly lost to App State. Vols would clean sweep the ACC.

 

[pierce60]

 

[VolNRaleighNC]

You happy now?

Not completely but it is what it is. I’d rather not play UGA in ATL for an essentially 2nd home game for them. Not necessarily “neutral”.

Oh well, can’t have your cake and eat it too…

 

[Smokey123]

What a shot by JJJ

 

[TheMagnificantOne]

Not completely but it is what it is. I’d rather not play UGA in ATL for an essentially 2nd home game for them. Not necessarily “neutral”.

Oh well, can’t have your cake and eat it too…

Me either...I rather play them in the National Championship Game

 

[Rishvol]

Titans are averaging 3 yards per play. More punts than first downs. Sheesh

OC should've been fired last year and should've been left in the tarmac last week

 

[Devo182]

ACC champion could still be a headache.

Clemson & UNC both still got 1 loss. Was really hoping Louisville or Wake Forest could upset one of them.

We may still be picked ahead of the ACC champs, but always nice for there to be no debate.

0 chance. Clemson was hardly "in it" undefeated.

As someone else said, the 1 loss for both divisional leaders (UNC and Clemson) is 3-loss Notre Dame lmfao.

The ND win over the ACC's 2 best teams just shows how awful that conference is.

 

[lilesrt]

Lol because we are easily ranked the #1 1-loss team in the country?

Basically the opposite.

And UGA is the highest ranked undefeated team. And LSU (followed by Bama) is the highest ranked 2-loss team...

SEC means big wins. And some of that is helped by where teams begin (preseason rankings), because the Anchoring Bias is real. And preseason rankings are another place where the SEC (deservedly) gets the benefit of the doubt.

Teams like Clemson and USC are the ones getting punished because of their conference, and thus, their poor SOS.

If TCU goes undefeated in a lesser conference, are they more deserving than a 1 loss Tennessee team, whose lone loss was to Georgia?

 

[Devo182]

Tennessee WR Cedric Tillman, who missed several games early in the season with an ankle injury, played in the Vols' last two games. He dressed for warmups Saturday, but after being introduced for Senior Day, changed into street clothes. Heupel said Tillman could have played, injury wasn't an issue, but "the best situation was for him to sit this one out."

 

[yourstruly23]

That line is about to MOVE.. wouldn’t be surprised to see it at -25 by the time Saturday rolls around

 

[Devo182]

If TCU goes undefeated in a lesser conference, are they more deserving than a 1 loss Tennessee team, whose lone loss was to Georgia?

more deserving is a phrase I hate - but yes. If you go undefeated you have "deserved it".

That doesn't make them the better team (which I thought was how they used to it and the AP/Coaches were the ones that went off "deserved") but it's apparently the new method for them. It is how we were ranked #1 even as a 9 pt underdog vs UGA. We were more deserving, even though we weren't viewed as the best team.

 

[jordan4vols]

Rece Davis made this argument. I thought the point about "who in the top 10 has a really impressive road win?" was particularly incisive.

It’s exactly as we all said. After we get back to winning and Oregon and some others lose the narrative will shift to how there is no way to keep us out.

 

[jakez4ut]

CBS updated projections are out. They have us as the #4-seed facing Georgia in a rematch. I’ll take it!

I'd take it too. But I'd prefer a big 10 team in Tempe first.

 

[Devo182]

TCU -2 vs Baylor

Basically a coinflip game. Vs a 6-4 opponent...very telling lol.

 

[bcmbvol]

OC should've been fired last year and should've been left in the tarmac last week

I assume you mean literally in the tarmac. I’ve tried to watch the Titans a bit, but I’ve seen economics lectures more exciting than their offense.

 

[Revived2002]

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Fascinating! How many teams on that list did TCU beat to get that high? Their resume must be impressive.

 

[VolInDayton]

I don't understand why there was any talk about us running up the score.

I went to the OSU game yesterday. OSU kept CJ Shroud in the game up 49-14 in the fourth quarter. No one says anything. OSU always keeps their starters in late into the game.

 

[Christian Lowe]

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I know the basketball team is struggling at this moment, but never forget how rare it is to be where we are. Top 10 program in all three major American sports is nearly impossible.

So impossible that the class of college baseball only a decade ago is now willing to write off the entire program just for a few more football wins.

 

[Rishvol]

I assume you mean literally in the tarmac. I’ve tried to watch the Titans a bit, but I’ve seen economics lectures more exciting than their offense.

Yes cemented shoes but not sleeping with the fishes

 

[peaygolf]

COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF (FIESTA BOWL)

(Photo: Dan Harker, 247Sports)
Projection: No. 2 Ohio State vs. No. 3 Tennessee
Please football gods, let us have this matchup in the playoff between the nation's two most explosive offenses. Imagine the number of fireworks in this showdown between the Buckeyes and Volunteers, who are each led by Heisman candidates quarterbacks and several top-end wide receivers. Ohio State locks in the No. 2 seed if it wins out while Tennessee could slide into the No. 3 seed if the selection committee wants to avoid a semifinal rematch between the Vols and Georgia and TCU loses a game over its final two games and the Big 12 finale.

 

[Big Orange#1]

People are living in fantasy world if they think a 2 loss LSU team who we beat would ever sniff a spot over us. Surely lol

And they are never going to beat UGA in Atlanta anyways. Even if it wouldn’t happen

 

[TheMookieMonster]

TCU -2 vs Baylor

Basically a coinflip game. Vs a 6-4 opponent...very telling lol.

Vegas also said Texas was 7.5 points better than TCU, too. Don’t trust it. Hammer TCU. They aren’t losing unless it’s to Kansas State who is red hot right now.

 

[UTProf]

LOL...that's just Kanell setting up rankings so it would be easier for USC or the ACC champ (Clemson or UNC) to jump us.

The playoffs really aren't any different than the old days of multiple polls naming champions. They're just as full of ish. Only difference is the playoffs tend to raise up little teams out of misplaced sense of fairness more than the old name-a-poll days.

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]