The Official #23 Tennessee vs. New Mexico State Game Thread, 4:15 PM ET, SEC Network

[HighRockvol]

How is it only 3rd and 8 they threw a backwards pass

They ruled it incomplete when it was clearly backwards

 

[Clad in Big Orange]

I know these game threads have a certain reputation but damn, were a missed FG away from being in the mix for a National Championship and some of y'all are ready to hit the reset button.

No, we really just want to see better roster management, player development, in-game coaching decisions and team execution.

 

[Freak]

Is Mac gaining any weight???? He looked more in command but dang he doesn’t look he has gained much weight. His arms are skinny. He has add some muscle in the off-season. GBO

He probably has but I sure can't tell that he's any bigger.

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

Better right now or not, MacIntyre is the more talented and younger guy who’d benefit more from game reps

Maybe. Maybe not. Apparently Heupel doesn't think so. I wouldn't mind seeing McIntyre either, but I'm not going to worry about it

 

[chrisvannoy]

getting gmac only one series is a huge mistake on hype

Says to me Heup is going back to the portal for a starting QB

 

[BigOrangeFanatic]

We're playing LOTS of young guys. We're youngest in the SEC

Yeah cant expect young guys to get better as the season goes on. Weve played nearly an entire season now, and we look worse on both sides of the ball.

 

[Jimmyandjoes]

In a game that's 42-9. We only had 2 drives with our 2nd and 3rd string QB's.
Not ideal

 

[adam.vol]

How many points per game is the offense averaging? I don’t remember ever seeing this many defensive scores in a season.

 

[Clad in Big Orange]

Heup is liable to bolt for another job the way some of our “fans” have treated him lately. And I really couldn’t blame him.

I don’t think Heupel even knows this place exists.

 

[Smokymtnbullet]

Some will follow Heup to Baton Rouge.

 

[ttocswob]

How is it only 3rd and 8 they threw a backwards pass

They called it a forward pass... great officiating.

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

They seem to be regressing. Not super encouraging.

We came in to this game missing almost half of our starting defense. Our QB got here 6 months ago and was a INT machine before he got here and that seems to be rearing it's ugly head. We're gonna be okay

 

[vols 30]

Says to me Heup is going back to the portal for a starting QB

I hope not

 

[Big Al Orange]

Players don’t get psyched up to play teams like NMS. Some of y’all need to chill

We win big. Bama looses, and Ohio St. is gonna beat the chit out of Nico and his UCLA sissys. I’d say it’s a good day to be a Vol !!

 

[JMSqb11]

In a game that's 42-9. We only had 2 drives with our 2nd and 3rd string QB's.
Not ideal

Well it seems Heupel had a gameplan that required 3+ quarters to get Joey to keep his streak intact.

 

[sechamp2012]

I know these game threads have a certain reputation but damn, were a missed FG away from being in the mix for a National Championship and some of y'all are ready to hit the reset button.

As Johnny Majors said “the legion of the miserables”
Happens every year, taxes, death & miserable Vol fans

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

No, we really just want to see better roster management, player development, in-game coaching decisions and team execution.

Better player development? Don't we have like 3 or 4 projected 1st round picks? When's the last time that's happened?

 

[UTFanForLife]

“Showed us 0” is dumb and just downright idiotic. There is more than enough to hate the guy for but this notion his first year as starter was a nothing burger is just foolishness.

Nico was very pedestrian last year. So the Iowa game was valuable for him then? Cause to me it didn’t look like it helped much.

 

[OrangeTsar]

That’s my expectation. I think we’ve peaked under Heupel.

You are probably right, because we are about to run the poor man off. He will then spend the next 25 years beating the socks off of UT as we hire failed group of 5 coach after failed coordinators.

 

[sechamp2012]

We win big. Bama looses, and Ohio St. is gonna beat the chit out of Nico and his UCLA sissys. I’d say it’s a good day to be a Vol !!

I think Nico not playing tonight backup starting

 

[bpalmer28]

Says to me Heup is going back to the portal for a starting QB

That’s the only thing that makes any sense.

 

[Jimmyandjoes]

Some will follow Heup to Baton Rouge.

Why would he got to that absolute sh#t show.
Got the gov making decisions, talking about getting Trump involved, trying to find cause for a fired coach to not pay him,a board of supervisors that's doing the hire, who is his boss? Not to mention they fired a coach for winning average of 9 games.
Lots of red flags at LSU

 

[Manchester Vol]

We win big. Bama looses, and Ohio St. is gonna beat the chit out of Nico and his UCLA sissys. I’d say it’s a good day to be a Vol !!

Nico is laying out against Ohio State. (Cramps)

 

[RAVOL]

20 mns ago everyone was complaining get starters out as well as key backup now its why is our team playing this way. Vol Nation at its best gotta love this place. In CHRIST Alone

 

[mackievol]

We win big. Bama looses, and Ohio St. is gonna beat the chit out of Nico and his UCLA sissys. I’d say it’s a good day to be a Vol !!

Nico doesn't want to get embarrassed again so he's sitting this one out