Are our rivalries unbalanced?

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The Tennessee Volunteers may have an obvious rival, but who is the second or third rival? Is there a second or third?

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This is how I expected it to look. I weighed it 40 Alabama and 30 each for Florida and Georgia. Also figured we would be a big bit behind Auburn when it comes to Alabama rivals.
 
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Rivalry- competition for the same objective or for superiority in the same field.

From the perspective of the majority of our SEC counterparts; Tennessee football has not been competing for the same goals that they are. It has been a foregone conclusion for more than a decade that Florida, Georgia, Alabama, LSU and sometimes Auburn, Texas A&M will compete to win the SEC. Tennessee can’t even get into the discussion anymore. At this point, we have no real rivalries.
 
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Tennessee is Vanderbilt 2.0 to our rivals right now they chalk it up to a cupcake win every season and don’t worry about us. This won’t ever change under Pruitt but it can under Mr. Freeze
 
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JBVolunteer said:
Rivalry- competition for the same objective or for superiority in the same field.

From the perspective of the majority of our SEC counterparts; Tennessee football has not been competing for the same goals that they are. It has been a foregone conclusion for more than a decade that Florida, Georgia, Alabama, LSU and sometimes Auburn, Texas A&M will compete to win the SEC. Tennessee can’t even get into the discussion anymore. At this point, we have no real rivalries.
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Oh, yeah we do...it’s just that it’s slipped to Kentucky and Vanderbilt. Very sad, but we can blame the inept management of this program for the result.
 
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sportprof101 said:
The Tennessee Volunteers may have an obvious rival, but who is the second or third rival? Is there a second or third?

With the help of message board members beginning in 2014, we—the students and professors of the Know Rivalry Project—began answering this question and others related to rivalry in NCAA Football. Please help us update and expand our results to ensure that the Tennessee Volunteers are included by taking 9 minutes to complete our newest survey:

https://umassamherst.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3FdJ8eN2EgFCfCB?grpID=1051&mbsrc=mb

Our previous results have been featured in numerous sports media outlets, as well as the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. You can view those results and learn more about us at our KnowRivalry.com website BUT we'd prefer you didn't until you completed the survey via the link above... we don't want to influence your opinions provided in the survey.

We use the Qualtrics online survey software for data collection. This academic research has been approved by two US universities' Institutional Review Boards (IRB) and it poses no risks to respondents. You'll find more information on the disclosure agreement that is required to start the survey. Thank you for helping us to include the Tennessee Volunteers by participating and please share this with any other fans that may also help.

Jonah, Student Researcher, Northern Kentucky University
Dr. Joe Cobbs, Northern Kentucky University
Dr. David Tyler, University of Massachusetts—Amherst
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No but our fans seem to be.
 
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Traditional: Used to be bama, Vandy and then KY. Georgia somewhat too. Used to also be Auburn, Georgia Tech, Sewanee, and Ole Miss.

Since Divisions created: bama, Florida, Vandy, Georgia, KY, then SCAR and Mizzou.
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
It’s almost as if the fans are getting paid millions of dollars to make dumb decisions.

The fans have very little to do with the team’s poor performance.
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I’m getting tired of all this “blame the fans s***.” We ain’t the ones hiring gumps and geeks on The Hill.
 
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