Annual Opponents Bama, Vandy, and UK

#102
#102
TrueOrange said:
Yes. They will have to choose who to get rid of out of any previous G5-G5-FCS game arrangement.

They’ll all choose to keep playing 1 FCS team and 1 G5 team.
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My hope is, as they do away from the Spring portal, is that those buy games for FCS will become preseason games.
 
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ENGRVOL said:
Next year if we have 5 conference home games and Vandy on the road we will only have 3 true road games all year. Ga tech in Atlanta will be vol heavy.

Hope George is ready.
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Early rumors are that the GT athletic director is trying to get this game into Mercedes Benz Stadium for a max ticket draw as well. Bobby Dodd only holds 52k people and the Dome holds 72K. That would be a win for us for sure in my book.
 
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zjcvols said:
My hope is, as they do away from the Spring portal, is that those buy games for FCS will become preseason games.
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That actually makes a ton of sense. Coaches dont have any need to even run the starters for a half or win by a lot. I guess the downside would be that they arent making their money back with a packed house, but then they could actually charge a little for a spring game. You'd think theyd make up the lost revenue from the extra SEC game. But yeah I love that idea.
 
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ButchPlz said:
Again, you all keep saying we get an "easy" draw, but all it does is leave more "difficult" teams to fill out the rest. We're going to get them anyway. Just like the teams with "hard" draws are going to get "easy" teams anyway.

With six additional games there will be no easy path. It's extremely simple math.
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You are correct. Which is why it was silly to even have competitive balance as a metric or goal. Preserve rivalries and everything else will work itself out.
 
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Rocky Top T said:
Every team got at least two, some 3 rivalry games. What in the world are you talking about???
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Vanderbilt and Kentucky are not rivals. They are teams we beat up on every season. The only rivalries Tennessee has are with Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. Those should have been our 3 permanent opponents. And they should have kept LSU/Florida and LSU/Alabama as rivalries.

Absolutely pathetic what the SEC just did.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
Vanderbilt and Kentucky are not rivals. They are teams we beat up on every season. The only rivalries Tennessee has are with Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. Those should have been our 3 permanent opponents. And they should have kept LSU/Florida and LSU/Alabama as rivalries.

Absolutely pathetic what the SEC just did.
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You don't understand that is the best they could do with 16 teams. Also, Kentucky and Vanderbilt are more of a rivalry than Florida, it was the 90's before we started playing Florida yearly. Been playing Vanderbilt and Kentucky Much Longer! Us older fans know who are our true rivalry games are.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
Vanderbilt and Kentucky are not rivals. They are teams we beat up on every season. The only rivalries Tennessee has are with Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. Those should have been our 3 permanent opponents. And they should have kept LSU/Florida and LSU/Alabama as rivalries.

Absolutely pathetic what the SEC just did.
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You should boycott all SEC sports in protest
 
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#119
Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
Vanderbilt and Kentucky are not rivals. They are teams we beat up on every season. The only rivalries Tennessee has are with Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. Those should have been our 3 permanent opponents. And they should have kept LSU/Florida and LSU/Alabama as rivalries.

Absolutely pathetic what the SEC just did.
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You already were told why you are wrong and why this happened and you still double down on ignorance.
 
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#121
With SEC expansion comes loss of longstanding games, see LSU vs Florida, LSU Alabama etc. I don’t think
the SEC is finished expanding as North Carolina, Clemson and FSU probably want in. LSU Florida was much watch tv for decades.
 
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#123
Volpatine said:
As a life long Vol fan I love this for two reason:
1. We keep games that mean a lot to our fans.
2. It should be consistently easier than other permanent opponents would be.

I hope we play either Kentucky or Bama on the road the same year we play Vandy away. That will give us 5 home games a year after we paint Nashville orange.
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Huh? We already know when we play all 3 of those teams home and away. They’re not going to change it. We play Vandy at home and UK and Bama on the road this year. That will flip next year.
 
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