“The 10 most baffling SEC games of 2021 - #3: Florida rolls Tennessee”

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Looking back, these were the 10 most baffling SEC games of 2021

3. Florida rolls Tennessee
Wait … what? Florida beats Tennessee more often than the average American pays their taxes. What’s baffling about that?

At the time, nothing was really surprising about it. We just watched the Gators go 60 minutes with Alabama, and Tennessee had lost a home game to Pitt. Little did we know that Florida’s only other SEC win would be at home against Vandy. Meanwhile, Tennessee turned into a frisky 7-5 team with a top-15 offense in Year 1 with Josh Heupel.

And for what it’s worth, this game actually started out close. It all turned when the Vols had a dropped pass on 4th down in the third quarter. Then the wheels fall off and Florida took over. But within the next 1-2 weeks, Tennessee looked like the better team for the rest of the season.
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Vandy was the only other SEC win… in 2017 Florida was 4-8 with one SEC win… us.

Good lord when is it going to stop??
 
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It is not baffling at all, we beat KY even when they have the better team, FL beats us even when we have the better team. It is just the way it is, FL lives "rent free" in our players heads. We did not have a more talented "team" than FL this year, they clearly have more, but next year is a different story.
 
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MurphyVol said:
What's more baffling is Bama needing a missed PAT to beat them
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Seems like some teams get by on hype and hope for a while at the beginning of the season but fall apart under adversity and scrutiny. They are good because they are expected to be good. Drop a key pass or miss a key block in the first couple of games and you get a few eyebrows raised. Still dropping passes or missing blocks 4 or 5 games into the season and everyone is questioning you. We had the opposite issue. Nobody expected anything and when we actually saw that we could do something, we came together as a team. Took us a bit to find our QB but we got there.
 
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xpsyclonex2002 said:
Seems like some teams get by on hype and hope for a while at the beginning of the season but fall apart under adversity and scrutiny. They are good because they are expected to be good. Drop a key pass or miss a key block in the first couple of games and you get a few eyebrows raised. Still dropping passes or missing blocks 4 or 5 games into the season and everyone is questioning you. We had the opposite issue. Nobody expected anything and when we actually saw that we could do something, we came together as a team. Took us a bit to find our QB but we got there.
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To continue on with this statement, is with the news of Hooker returning, a very positive finish to early recruiting the team can see things start to line up. This should create more buy in from those within the program with the potential to see a break out season next year. It will be very advantageous for this staff to win the bowl game to continue the uptick.
2022 could be a really good year, and with a few breaks that go our way could be a special year.
 
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It would be baffling if the game was a one off anomaly. But it’s not. UF usually dominates us regardless of the coaching staff or current crop of players. Some said this years staff will be different when it comes to UF. They were not. We got schooled yet again by a terrible UF. If Vol fans haven’t figured out that UF is a guaranteed loss for any HC at TN by now then I don’t know what to say.
 
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We didn't play 60 minutes. End of story. Not hard to figure out.

In fact, that was a running theme for this team, the inability to score snd finish the second half. I expect that will end next year. The only head florida is in is yours.
 
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TOrange99 said:
To continue on with this statement, is with the news of Hooker returning, a very positive finish to early recruiting the team can see things start to line up. This should create more buy in from those within the program with the potential to see a break out season next year. It will be very advantageous for this staff to win the bowl game to continue the uptick.
2022 could be a really good year, and with a few breaks that go our way could be a special year.
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We win this bowl game convincingly and have a good offseason and the SEC will be on notice. Depth has been our weakness. against real competition we've been a 1 half team. CJH shored that up a lot with one round of portal guys. Another round of portal guys + a full recruiting class and we're gonna be trouble. Gonna still need a clutch #2 QB.
 
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Wish they'd do most baffling calls...UT would have quite a few of them. OM strip/fumble/TD top of the list for me...quite possibly took our W away...to me, more egregious than the "mustard call", but that one would be up there too, along w/ MST/Memphis call. There's been some crazy bad calls this year.
 
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Every season in September, many fans paint in their minds what SHOULD and should not happen based on a teams perceived power. Balls bounce funny, players have up and down days, coaches scheme perfectly and erroneously, then there is weather, girlfriends, sickness, injury etc. All that together has a huge impact on what happens week to week. That's what makes sports interesting and fun. And why they actually play the games.
 
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Boston Vol said:
Not baffling at all. UF was playing really well the first half of the season. Something obviously happened after the UGA game and their season went off the rails.
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I think the LSU game broke them. It was their third SEC loss, and they seemed to give up after this game.
 
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Florida was Alabama, UGA level good during that game and we weren't close to as good as we ended up being.

When Dan Mullen started messing with the quarterback rotation it destroyed Emory Jones, who was absolutely killing it and subsequently messed up Richardson and the team had no cohesion and they died.
 
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NeverWe'llSever said:
We always play Florida when they have hope.
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That's because Florida won't schedule TN when it's possibly cold in Knoxville. They try to avoid cold weather games at all cost. With Missouri and Kentucky now both on their schedule each year, they are forced at least one possible cold game. But they want TN at the beginning of the season
 
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sunnyvol79 said:
And no Vol fan should get their hopes on beating Florida next year
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Just because you like to live in that loser mentality doesn’t mean that we all do and I’m glad CJH doesn’t either… he is building a culture and team that plays to a standard and not the opponent and with greatly improved total depth next year we will be able to survive deep into the game… Vols will be a very tough consistent team next season
 
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