That doesn't make sense, ESPN is tied to the SEC financially. Also, if bama was in our situation, you think it would have been the same result? They could have easily put OSU in front of UGA as well.
It's not about the conference, but about the team. Tennessee just won't get the respect until they win big again. Nearly 15 years in the gutter damaged our brand more than most want to admit.
I don't want to hear he's a class act IF he's not communicating with the staff this late in the process.
Also. If he goes "silent" or to the osu/um game, he's 100% GONE.
It's all about recency bias. Nearly all of the rankings are based off what's happened the last few weeks. If Ole Miss had beat uga back when we beat bama and we had beat bama just a couple of weeks ago, then we would be higher because we would be perceived as "hotter".
This week is straightforward, everyone in the top 12 or so. Lot of cupcake games this week though, so realistically Arkansas beating Texas and Kansas beating BYU would be huge. Florida beating LSU would knock them out of the SEC and playoff race and boost our FL win.
Heupel is not helping our cause by playing so conservative toward the end of games. Every point matters in todays playoff system. You're a fool if you think these playoff ADs and commissioners are actually sitting and watching all the games, they will look and see UT 33 - MSst 14 or they could...
It's going to take stringing together some playoff runs for UT to gain real national respect again. We were irrelevant for just too long and we've lost that national brand recognition. Watch pretty much any national college football show and UT is barely mentioned. Same goes for playoff rankings...