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#56,730
knoxvol52 said:
SEC has a possible chance of getting 5 teams in...

As of right now.

3 Big Ten- Ohio State, Indiana and Oregon
1 Big 12 - Texas Tech or BYU with Cincinnati as a sleeper team
1 or possible 2 ACC teams. Georgia Tech or Miami. Virginia as a sleeper team Has to win ACC Championship.
Yes Notre Dame gets in if they win out and I see no resistance for them on rest of their schedule.
G5 team- Memphis has inside track ..

SEC- Texas A&M , Alabama, Georgia probably in. Mississippi and Tennessee both could get in if they win out but a few things can't happen.


1.Hope and pray Michigan doesn't win Big Ten Championship. Very possible they play Ohio State at home, then could possibly beat Indiana in Big Ten Championship game.
2. Dont want Georgia Tech to win ACC Championship vs a 1 loss Miami team. A 2 loss Miami team has 3 really good wins Notre Dame. South Florida and Florida.. Good chance a 2 loss Hurricane team gets a bid.


Best case scenario for Tennessee is win out and Mississippi losses and not worry about any of these other situations.

Jmo.
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Good post! I see it similarly

1-5 conference champs (SEC, ACC, Big10, Big 12, g-5)

2 big10
4 SEC
Notre Dame

The only way I see us being left out is if they decide to let two ACC teams in. Louisville, Miami, Virginia, and GT could make things interesting with how soft their schedules are. But I would hope that a two loss SEC team would get in over a one loss Virginia or Louisville.
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
That doesn't make any sense...at all. It looks like none of these guys have ever played defense before. I mean the players out there are not just X and O stupid...they are also absolute garbage fundamentally.

It is shocking to me how bad they are....Banks, Inge, Martinez and even RG have to be losing their minds over the way these guys are playing. RGs guys are also playing like garbage fundamentally...so he doesn't get a pass either.

I could understand if they dropped off some...but this is the worst defense they've put on the field at Tennessee...and it makes no sense at all...Bank is not great, but he has done far far better than this.
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Heups got to get the defense fixed. He’s going to waste championship level offensive talent if he doesn’t make changes. An it could cost him his job. No excuse for the defense to be playing this poorly. I don’t think our linebackers have covered anyone all season. An Boo can get gone
 
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Outofmyvolcanmind said:
Because our secondary (minus 2 players) is so bad, the two turnovers and drive before the half were the difference. Otherwise this would’ve been a nerve wracking game to the end.

This has been a problem since Heupel took over. We don’t match up well against good QB’s. Last year, Pavia was the only good QB we beat. Green, Beck, and Howard beat us and two of them convincingly. If Heupel wants to win a championship he will need to correct our DC and CB coaching and recruiting.
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Secondary recruiting hasn’t been anywhere near good enough. Same with linebackers until recently.
 
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OGbabyaviVol said:
Definition of insanity…doing same thing over and over and expecting different results. Heup needs to make Timmy come down to the field and call the defense, or demote him and let Inge or Alan Williams. Doing something/anything different! May need to tell Boo to sit too. I am wondering if he is a cancer on the defense and the cause for some of the trash effort we see.
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Spot on.

This team is a few secondary players away from being undefeated and a top 3 ranking. Which is the problem. We are five years in and there is zippo development in that area along with a DC who cannot get his players to understand how to play and execute zone coverages the whole time he has been here. They are Sunseri D level bad even with Hood locking down one side. Hood came in at the elite level - this staff gets no credit for his performance other than starting him. All the other OC's have to do is isolate Redmond and Boo while throwing crossings and digs underneath our pitiful safeties and behind our LB's who cannot cover either. Too often they cover nobody and just react to where the ball is thrown.

Even being bad in coverage, if they would just tackle well they could minimize the damage and occasionally force FG's instead of TD's. But they cannot even do that. They have NO eye discipline at all. They fall for eye candy, gimmicks and schemes like bad high schoolers.

Add in there is no point in having LB's stand around and then try to tackle a receiver while never having one spy a QB that can run, which is about 90+% of them now days. The only things we do well on D is pass rush and clamp down on the run when Banks has enough sense to go 4 DL and keep 6 in the box, which is not all that often. There are times now that he moves the LB's outside and only has 4 in the box. That makes them no good at stopping anything.

Having two elite CB's with a third in the wings in Hood before the injuries helped hide the weaknesses at safety and nickel with Boo in the game. All of the OC's know the answers Banks has for it now.

If there is no change in the weak links in the defensive coaching staff after this season, Heup will not be around much longer and that would be a shame because he is a master at offense. But he needs to man up as a HC and make the tough calls for the betterment of the program.
 
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SKV84 said:
Well LSU is out of the playoff picture now. We have a chance to knock OU out of that picture next weekend. Texas still has to play Vandy, UGA, and TAMU...so they'll most likely get knocked out. SEC is probably gonna get 4 spots. Just have to keep winning in spite of the defense.
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Road to Playoffs IMO - Post UK

Need to win out, obviously. Probably need uga and bama to win out for sake of our resume. Need our opponents on schedule to win as many games as possible while dropping games to us or others enough to not beat us out for spots. It would be tremendous for msu, ark, vandy, Kentucky, uf to cause...
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#56,741
Cutter Boley is not a bad QB. Threw for 300 vs Tejas. Had a good game. Defense is what it is, sigh. And its not good.

Wanted to see the line get home more often. Did see some holds, got to get off blocks.
 
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Vfl83 said:
Im almost convinced that our offense is playing a major role in how our defense plays under heupel. When are offenses is scoring quickly and moving fast our defense is atrocious. When we slow our offense down like we did under Nico and run the ball more our offense is magically much better. I think there is a correlation.
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Not sure pace has much to do with not using your arms to tackle, taking bad pursuit angles or just giving up in coverage all in the first half.
 
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Jackcrevol said:
Cutter Boley is not a bad QB. Threw for 300 vs Tejas. Had a good game. Defense is what it is, sigh. And its not good.

Wanted to see the line get home more often. Did see some holds, got to get off blocks.
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Boley is a very talented freshman that's finally getting comfortable. He has improved a lot over their last few games. That being said, our defense made it too easy for him.
 
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