What was our projection before this season?

#26
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The Tall Gguy said:
I think consensus was 9-3. That is highly unlikely.
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This is a fact. Somebody can bump the thread and they will see.

I picked 9-3...same as i picked last year.


Vegas was 7.5 and 8.5 wins depending on which company and when you looked.

The SEC media picked us to finish 9th in the SEC this year.

We will likely beat any of those projections. I think we finish 9-3. With a chance to win the bowlgame and have 10wins again.

I am admittedly a big supporter of CJH...but I dont know why the best thing we could go for on 4th and 1 was a pass to freshman TE JVD...and nobody told him 5times to get his head around immediately due to pressure coming. I also question going for the onside kick the 2nd time instead of kicking it deep. I know we are super thin and young on defense though due to injuries. Our defense played well enough to win. Our offense committed 3TOs, gave up too many sacks, dropped too many balls, and ran on 1st down at least a dozen consecutive times for a total of 10yds. I know we have to stick with the run...but if the defense KNOWS you are gonna run it up the middle every single 1st down then you stay behind the schedule all game and it eventually bites you.

We had a bad game. At home with 40 recruits and 12 different 5* guys watching. Its not the end of the world though...and CJH is THE best coach in the SEC not named Kirby.
 
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BlinghamptonVol said:
I predicted 11-1 with a win over uga. But for some missed fgs, we'd be right on track.
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I hope somebody on the team gives the kicker Gilbert a wedgie so hard that he can wear his CareBears underoos as a headband.

We have to get a better kicker for next year. I know that he is 13 for 16 etc...but his misses caused us the biggest game of the year and didnt help today either. He isnt clutch. Period.
 
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What stinks is that our schedule has been very favorable by SEC standards for the second year in a row and we still cannot beat teams in the SEC with actual winning records. I think I saw that we have the second easiest schedule of all SEC teams. Just think how bad it would likely be if we played the same schedule as some of our less favorable SEC brethren that get stuck with more difficult schedules.
 
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Rocky Top T said:
There were plenty saying 10-11 wins
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II don’t believe you.

Nobody except me and @LittleVol expected our WRs to be this good and NOBODY expected Joey to lead the SEC in passing. Most people were worried about OL depth. Once Gibson joined McCoy on the injured list, expectations dropped even lower.

If anyone predicted 11 wins, they weren’t being serious.
 
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bpalmer28 said:
II don’t believe you.

Nobody except me and @LittleVol expected our WRs to be this good and NOBODY expected Joey to lead the SEC in passing. Most people were worried about OL depth. Once Gibson joined McCoy on the injured list, expectations dropped even lower.

If anyone predicted 11 wins, they weren’t being serious.
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Doesn't matter if you believe me, I saw what I saw
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
I hope somebody on the team gives the kicker Gilbert a wedgie so hard that he can wear his CareBears underoos as a headband.

We have to get a better kicker for next year. I know that he is 13 for 16 etc...but his misses caused us the biggest game of the year and didnt help today either. He isnt clutch. Period.
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Gilbert is actually a little better but he reminds me of the kicker we had with Butch 2014-17. That guy was automatic as long as the kick wasn't for the lead & less than 40yrds.
 
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The day Nico left the vocal majority here declared 7-5. Vegas dropped us from 9.5 to 8.5 wins. We right there where the experts predicted and doing better than the posters thought.
 
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I said before season 8 wins was our peak. If we pulld 9 heupel should be extended. But the way we have lost games has been unacceptable. No discipline, unprepared, no sense of clock mgt, just simple stuff that should not be happening at this point and it all comes down to coaching
 
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Beauknowsfootball said:
Do we even have a chance at the citrus?
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It's highest remaining ranked SEC team after the playoff selections. Is it possible...yes? But Tennessee would also likely need some degree of help

The overall records in the SEC are currently as follows for SEC teams with 3 or less losses:

#3 Texas A&M 8-0
#4 Alabama 7-1
#5 Georgia 7-1
#7 Ole Miss 8-1
#9 Vanderbilt 7-2 (this ranking will be drop after today's loss to #20)
#18 Oklahoma 7-2 (this ranking will be higher after today's win over #14)
#20 Texas 7-2 (this ranking will be higher after today's win over #9)
#19 Missouri 6-2
#14 Tennessee 6-3 (this ranking will be drop after today's loss to #18)

So it's a bit debatable. There's still a bunch of remaining matchups between the teams in and above that range:
-Alabama and Oklahoma still play each other,
-Oklahoma and Missouri still play each other,
-Georgia and Texas still play each other (and in a way that has an effect Georgia still plays GA Tech)
-Texas A&M and Texas still play each other,
-Texas A&M and Missouri still play each other,
-Tennessee and Vanderbilt still play each other.

And then it's hard to gauge. If everything follows the expected results, Texas would fall behind to 8-4, dropping them behind UT. Either Oklahoma or Missouri would fall to 8-4 as well, dropping another behind UT. And one would presume if Tennessee were to beat Vanderbilt, the Vols would be the higher-ranked 9-3 team.

That'd more or less leave:

Texas A&M 12-0
Alabama 11-1
Georgia 11-1
Ole Miss 11-1
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Oklahoma OR Missouri 9-3
Tennessee 9-3
Vanderbilt 9-3

Making things iffy. There'd be 4 SEC teams in the playoffs. As far as the Citrus Bowl went, it'd be a pull from who's 9-3 between OU/Mizzou, UT, and Vandy (likely coming to the rankings and who's the highest out of the three).

Honestly (other than lots of significant upsets in the last 4 weeks) Tennessee's best case scenario to get to the Citrus Bowl might involve also wanting one more SEC team to get into the playoffs...either OU beating Alabama, Missouri, and LSU OR Missouri beating Texas A&M, Mississippi State, OU, and Arkansas.
 
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I vividly recall a large number of people on here saying Heupel had a pass for this season due to losing Nico after the spring and having to grab the best option he could find at QB with a very limited amount of time to learn the playbook before the season. That sentiment was thrown out the window very quickly. There were more people predicting 7-5 than there were 9-3.
I said we should be able to get to 9 wins even if we weren’t a really good team just based on the schedule and could possibly get to 10 wins and make the playoffs. The playoffs are now off the table but 9 wins is still achievable.
 
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