Vols -9.5 vs. Kentucky in Lexington

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I saw on Wednesday's injury report that Arion Carter and Ben Bolton are both questionable. I believe Bolton is Carter's backup and would it be redshirt freshman Burns who would be next in line at that spot? I still think UT wins without these two if they both can't play but it's never a good thing to not have your leading tackler available. Hopefully Carter is off of the report tonight.

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Hey maybe it will be like when Daniel bituli got the start after somebody got hurt and came out and balled out for us for the rest of the year! (Or maybe we give up 500 yards of offense again)

Isn’t this exciting?!?!!!
 
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Don’t think Carter plays with “double turf toe.”
It was giving him fits v. Bama, impacting his “stop and go” abilities to run to the ball. Turf toe is an excruciating/painful injury. And he has it on both feet 🤦‍♂️.

The kid (name escapes me - 🤦‍♂️)who was suspended 1st half @ Bama is the backup. And then the other backup is injured, too.

Vegas has been spot on the past few weeks but maybe they’re wrong this time, though the $$ is on KY.

My gut says 27-21……..

Vols will have 7 penalties:

two being hands to the face keeping our D on the field.

Two presnap penalties
one personal foul
two holding penalties
One DPI or OPI
One offsides


My hope is 37-10 Vols with 235 yards rushing, 250 passing, 4 or less penalties, and KY 3rd down conversion 30% or less
 
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Vols due to come out and prove they can win a tough road game. Yes, this will be a tough road game.

Current line is -9.0 to -9.5. So Vegas has UT as a 10-point favorite.

My (useless) research had me at Vols 31-23.

So I'll stick with that. Vols win; don't cover. I couldn't care less about the cover. Just win.

It's a "1 game" season for UT at this point.
 
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Like last time we played at Kroger field, this will be a one score game that will go down to the wire. Vegas understands that, hence why the line is tightening.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
We don't lose to Kentucky. The 3 times we've lost in my lifetime were 3 of the worst Tennessee teams we've had and 2 of them Kentucky still barely won and the one they didn't was the weird Covid year that I almost don't count.

Stoops' best 2 teams couldn't beat Tennessee and both years Tennessee wasn't very good.

We're going to win Saturday, it's just a matter of how badly we beat them.
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We also don't blow them out in Ky. We lost in 17, won by 4 in 19, '21 we won by 3,'23 we won by 6. Not to mention this game is between Alabama and OU, yes that makes me a little nervous. Do we get caught flat or looking ahead? We all know Heupel Coached teams have at times been caught sleepwalking in Road games vs not so great teams. Hope we don't in this one, but anybody that thinks it's a guaranteed easy win hasn't been paying attention. I very easily can see a 3-6 point games. Wouldn't surprise me at all.
 
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Spiritof96 said:
Cats can't score TDs. They put up 20 pts AT BEST. Will give up 28 easy, 35 likely. Perimeter tackling and back-end communication have been a defensive weakness all season. Heupel exploits that every year.

It's a feel-good win for the Vols.

Edit to add; UK S#i^'s the bed every time we play UT anyway. It's almost always our worst performance of the year, regardless of the season.
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The last 4 times in KY have all been close games. Heupel's teams have been known to **** the bed in SEC Road games.
 
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DaltonVol2298 said:
If I bet, I’d bet on Tennessee covering. Kentucky as usual with Stoops is not an explosive offense and is good for a couple of WTF moments each game to derail drives.
They outgained the Shorthorns by like 200 yards yet still lost because they could not punch it in at the goal line. Thing is Stoops actually played to win instead of his usual playing scared but they could not block the Texas defensive front once they got close to the end zone. I at least respect him actually having some guys for a change but the talent difference kicked in there.

Heupel owns Stoops so even if the Cats somehow cover they ain’t winning. Stoops just struggles so much against us and against good teams. To add to that, I think we are gonna be angry about the Bama game and take that out on the Cats!
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Not me. I took UK +10 earlier in the week. Bought it from 9.5 to 10. It's down to 7.5 and I'm considering hitting KY again.
 
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Peradox1K said:
Too low. It should be -17
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I feel confident Vegas knows what they are doing. Already some big time money on KY. It's dropped from 9.5 down to ,7.5. I bought KY up to +10 earlier in the week. We haven't beaten KY by more than 6 in KY since 2015. I may lose and hope I do, but I hit KY pretty big and may him them again at +7.5.
 
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SubVet676 said:
Vols due to come out and prove they can win a tough road game. Yes, this will be a tough road game.

Current line is -9.0 to -9.5. So Vegas has UT as a 10-point favorite.

My (useless) research had me at Vols 31-23.

So I'll stick with that. Vols win; don't cover. I couldn't care less about the cover. Just win.

It's a "1 game" season for UT at this point.
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It's 7.5 now and dropping l. Some big time wise guy money on KY.
 
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