The Official #12 Tennessee vs. Arkansas Game Thread, 4:15 PM ET, SEC Network

[TennesseeTarheel]

Heupel's offenses have been particularly strong coming off a bye week. They have averaged 38 points per game in the 11 games with a 9-2 record.

Orange is the new blue?

 

[VolCalls]

I'd like to see them play Miami. They look pretty salty.

I’d put Indiana up against anyone right now.

 

[VolCalls]

Arkansas 1 for 10
Good Guys 10 for 78

Arkansas is a very disciplined team. They had a poor coach who wasn’t good at schemes and game planning. Now they have one. Watch how they play against A&M next week at home.

 

[VolCalls]

The sorry Ark team starting a fight at games end rather than shaking hands and getting their butts to shower in locker room is abysmal. Go Vols! Hope they duck and lose the next game!

They’re finally playing with fire. Take them to cover vs A&M next week, too.

 

[VolCalls]

Give him time. He'll be coaching not to lose in 2 to 3 years or he will be at a bigger program by then.

Have you Googled him? He wins everywhere he goes. Best coach in the country right now.

 

[cgrish]

Heupel's offenses have been particularly strong coming off a bye week. They have averaged 38 points per game in the 11 games with a 9-2 record.

And I think that is below our average. We did get beat last year at Ark, and barely won this year, and did not cover the spread, We played bad but still won. I am grateful for the win, but if the Sec comes down to 4 or 5 teams tied, the score differential between common opponents does matter.

 

[CAVPUT]

I’d put Indiana up against anyone right now.

Great coach and staff. They've done a tremendous job. If we were in the market for a head coach, he'd be call #1.

 

[landscapingvol]

Arkansas is a very disciplined team. They had a
poor coach who wasn’t good at schemes and game planning. Now they have one. Watch how they play against A&M next week at home.

Arkansas is very “disciplined” because the game was poorly officiated, prior to last night they weren’t. This is the cope the Banks apologists always make. Syracuse was a “great” team offensively, Mississippi State, Georgia etc. when they played Tennessee but that hasn’t translated to the rest of their opponents after playing Tennessee. Georgia has been pretty mediocre offensively, Mississippi State scored 9 points against A and M, Syracuse scored 3 against Duke and 17 against SMU. Tim Banks has the distinct honor of making every opponent looking great offensively

 

[nuclearjunky]

The Indy Coach (Cignetti) may be the best at it right now. Indiana. Hoosiers. Never had a football team until this guy. He coaches for 60 minutes.

I don’t know much about him. But I will start looking at what he’s doing. Right now to me he is this years hot coach everybody is talking about. How many coaches over the last few years at non-traditional power teams have a good year and they are suddenly the talking points for how their, our, coach should be coaching on this board and others. The media fawns over them and they get 5 minute spots on Gameday and they never achieve that level of success again. I just look at it as nobody is a proven championship coach until they are and then repeat it. Saban was a questionable hire at some point in his career. From memory only James Franklin, Shane Beamer, Luke Fickell, Scott Frost, Billy Napier. Hell I guess you could throw Heupel in that conversation as well. I hope that Cignetti keeps winning because I like when the status quo gets disrupted. Nothing pleased me more than Penn State losing again yesterday.

 

[VolCalls]

I don’t know much about him. But I will start looking at what he’s doing. Right now to me he is this years hot coach everybody is talking about. How many coaches over the last few years at non-traditional power teams have a good year and they are suddenly the talking points for how their, our, coach should be coaching on this board and others. The media fawns over them and they get 5 minute spots on Gameday and they never achieve that level of success again. I just look at it as nobody is a proven championship coach until they are and then repeat it. Saban was a questionable hire at some point in his career. From memory only James Franklin, Shane Beamer, Luke Fickell, Scott Frost, Billy Napier. Hell I guess you could throw Heupel in that conversation as well. I hope that Cignetti keeps winning because I like when the status quo gets disrupted. Nothing pleased me more than Penn State losing again yesterday.

Considering this is the second year in a row he's doing it at the Power 4 level and has a 136-37 career record as a head coach, I'd say he's not the flash in the pan you think he is.

Google him.

 

[WillisWG]

 

[deatojl]

That high flying UGA offense that scored 40+ on us being shut out by AU late in to the second quarter.

Don’t forget about that juggernaut Alabama offense that only scored 24 on Georgia and was shut out in the second half. The same Georgia defense that we hung 40+ on.

 

[m_scott]

A 3 point win in the SEC is a win. Sure there are concerns but I’m taking this win and moving forward. Thankfully even with the defensive struggles they were able to get us some turn overs, now going forward the offense has to make the other team pay dearly for those mistakes. GBO

 

[Arrested Devolopment]

No way this is a top 10 team. We're a product of a soft schedule. Give us the UF schedule, and I'm not sure we would have 2 wins right now.

Maybe. I'm more invested in this timeline.