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Harbaugh and Sandusky want you to hold their beers. Art Briles, Hugh Freeze, Bobby Patrino and Mike Price are considering asking you to do the same.

It is important for the QB to lead the team. Perhaps the only position in all of sports where a leadership role is so strongly tied to a specific position. Doesn't have to be the point guard or power forward in basketball, or the pitcher or catcher in baseball, or the goalie in soccer. Only...

It always comes down to Team. Always. Always, always. When we get too caught up in the Amazing Talent or FIve Stars or Family Pedigree of this lad or that lad, we're losing focus on what's important. Team. Team chemistry, team work, team spirit, team cohesion. It's just Team. Go Vols!

I honestly and sincerely doubt Bama ranks that high. lol. I mean, just in the letter S, there are Samford, Stillman, and Spring Hill. I'm betting at least two of those also outrank Alabama academically. Heh. Go Vols!

I'm with him, preferring to stay at 12 spots in the CFP. The only teams that need to be in the playoff are those that have a legitimate shot at proving they are the best team in the country. There are never 12 of those, much less 16. Would probably have been ideal if we'd expanded to just 8...

You saw at least one. We all did. The Moonshine Mountain Cookie Company, or whatever they were called, and their deal with first Alontae Taylor, then Bru McCoy. Every interception (Alontae) or touchdown (Bru) wins all fans two free cookies, that deal? Yah, that was one of the first...

My initial reaction is to respond No. Unlike Mark Richt, Josh Heupel has NO SHORTAGE of drive to win championships. He can be a top notch recruiter, developer, schemer, leader, motivator, and game day play caller. He has all the tools to win titles. But... The one big unknown is whether...

I'm thinking Florida (away). Here's why: there's an apparent trend running in the Vols-Gators rivalry over the past decade or so. And if that trend is valid, one would expect us to beat Florida at their house sometime in the next few years. If it happens this year, it's kind of a rough...

Even trying to stay objective, the TSIO rates higher than: 10- Minnesota - Wisconsin ... may have # games but does not have national implications, since about WW II. 9- UF- FSU ... until the 1980s all the Florida schools were afterthoughts in football. 8- OSU - Penn St. ... this is the little...

My wife can see 2,083 colors. I see like, 6. Plus black, white, grey and brown. My wife can spend more than 2 hours getting dressed. Lotsa details to figure out. I can do it all in 3 minutes. Just saying, I don't much care what we wear. As long as we're kicking butt, I'm happy. Go Vols!

Yeah, of course WE were. We're talking about all the other guys. Those other teams' fellas.

Any sport that can compel fans to drive five hours, late into the evening ... sneak onto the enemy's campus ... find and subdue a 225-pound billy goat with some pretty scary-looking horns ... figure out a way to lift that goat into the bed of the truck (or back of the van, not kidding it...

I'll tell you what, if you go by our music, we Tennesseans are the most heartbroken SOBs in the world. We can't keep a girl to save our lives. Go Vols!

It's a strange question you ask. If you only care about national titles, then every non-playoff bowl has been "irrelevant" since the BCS was introduced in 1998. Tennessee and Florida State played for the crown that winter, and everyone else was in an "irrelevant" bowl. Right? So how can...