The Official #5 Tennessee @ South Carolina Game Thread, 7:00 PM ET, ESPN

[DaddyChad]

With this defense we don’t deserve to be in the playoffs. Need to pull it together.

 

[happy-go_vol]

Some guys are just upset we haven’t played well. That was an obvious hold.

They've been killing us with holds

 

[Dudleys87]

0 offensive points against Florida. 0. This South Carolina team scored ZERO offensive points against the Florida Gators. What did we DO this week at practice?

Soft serve ice cream with a soft zone emphasis

 

[GhostVol]

Do we drop out of the top 10?

Maybe not "out" but def in the bottom.....

 

[ABINGDON VOL FAN]

Face mask by USC…good grief…turned our LBs head completely around. Refs horrible! No calls on their offense for holding, face mask, whatever.

Doesn’t matter. Even if they were called we can’t stop anybody.

 

[tnvols72]

There is a reason banks not at previous job

He is not there because UT gave him over a million to come here. I hope he gets sent back

 

[beachvol23]

We really don't have the talent...LB and secondary players are not that good...Banks helps the defense when he is playing, but apparently has a tough time keeping things in the middle of the road...

No dingdong the defensive coordinator!!!!!

 

[landscapingvol]

Good grief y’all whine too much, we were never a playoff quality team defensively and it is more than obvious tonight. Does this loss suck? Yeah but until we get a real DC it’s going to keep happening unfortunately but it’s still been a good year

 

[kptvol1]

I can’t see how we pull out of this. Defense is Swiss cheese and it’s just easy for them. We have no business losing this one.

 

[MurphyVol]

Well on to next week, can we hold Vandy under 40?

 

[YankeeVol]

Just get the lead for the first time..

Ain’t gonna happen bud

 

[cwbytruckers]

I get the feeling some Gamecock fans are commenting tonight

 

[cobbwebb0710]

My god our defense sucks!!! We absolutely do not want to be in the playoffs! We will get embarrassed even more than we are tonight!!!

Well, it’s looking like we probably won’t have to worry about that.

 

[Vawlranger88]

Play like this next week on D and see what happens

 

[HoopCreekVol]

How in the world did this team beat Bama with this defense…

Now that's a mystery...

 

[lifeisdeep]

stop blaming the refs… they are just flat out outplaying us period… it is what it is

Do you understand that if one team has to play by rules and the other team can do whatever they want, the team with impunity can’t lose? It’s pretty basic.

 

[vols40]

Becausde our D coaches are idiots!

Nothing to do with our d has not been world beaters in any game this season except for maybe Kentucky.

 

[I4Vols]

Tim Banks is earning that paycheck this evening.

Last one

 

[Smokey#6]

It's Banks calling the defense to play way off

This will go down as the worst coverage I've seen by Tennessee in my 30 years of watching them.

 

[JMSqb11]

Anybody still think we going win?

I get weird vibe where this game is like the 2017 Georgia tech game. We can’t stop them all game and then finally get some stops.

 

[hardyemt_p]

Huge hold for that

Yeah refs missed it

 

[Russdaddy2027]

Our offense is fine even w/o deep balls.
Defense is nonexistent and if this is the product they are capable of providing Vols don’t deserve playoffs.

 

[BP4Prez]

Well on to next week, can we hold Vandy under 40?

Vandy has a chance to become bowl eligible.

 

[vol94]

I may be incorrect but this team expected to come out here and win just by showing up. You’d think the GA game would’ve taught them something. One can’t expect the O to score on every possession. But USCjr has scored five TDs on SIX possessions. Only one stop by TN, ONE!!!!

 

[Arrested Devolopment]

Two score game - Let's goooooooo!