Bama is a 10 point favorite

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VersaceButch said:
It's like beating a dead horse but it goes without saying the Vols have to have a complete game to have any chance against Bama. Can't have 7 turnovers again, cannot start slow, cannot get behind by 17-21 points, etc.

I have faith this team can be competitive in this game, but we will not win if we don't figure out some way to fix our first half woes. Call me a negavol all you want. I love this team and feel like their the most resilient team in the nation, And that would serve you very well in big games like the SEC championship or the playoffs. That experience is invaluable.

But we will not make it there if we don't put together complete performances. And it will take that this week for a banged up Tennessee to beat a healthy Alabama.
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I think its more than about complete performance. Its way more about injuries IMO. When you have injuries like we have, it's difficult to beat the #8 team, much less the #1. Look at the LB position, we are weak there. Jumper has played great. But Cortez has been up and down and he may not be able to go. Losing a SR AA LB like JRM is jusr devastating. Hopefully Kirkland is back for Bama, but even if he is will he be 100%? I hope so but just having him will not fix everything. Sometimes missing skill players as good as Sutton and JRM are just too much.

I have faith in this team, there is absolutely no quit in this team and they will show up Saturday and give their best. I just think the injuries will be too much. And to be honest, nobody could blame Tennessee if we lose this game.
 
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I loooooooove when Vegas needs Tennessee to cover

Like someone else said, if it gets to 13.5 or 14, I might bite.
 
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My book just went to 14....i hammered the vols whom I normally don't wager on for a variety of reasons.

This kind of line movement is significant.....from 9 to 14 represents a TON of public money and a decent amount of sharp money on the tide. Could be a perfect vegas set up to take the sheep out to slaughter.

The under is gonna be a good play as well. The world is on the over and in these matchups I see a slugfest....

Tn 20
Bama 17
 
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NeverWe'llSever said:
Doubt we score 38 on Bama. Wouldn't be surprised if it's another 19-14 slug fest with UT on top this time, of course.
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We've scored 45 points and 38 points on Va-Tech and Florida. Both teams with higher rated defenses than Alabama.

Ole Miss scored 43 and Arkansas scored 30 on this Alabama defense.

I'm confident we can score at least 35 if we don't have a million turnovers.
 
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There were I believe 17 point favorites last year. UT lost by 5. The games have been getting closer each year.

Yes I know we had the off week last year and we are banged up - but I'm not selling this team short. They have more determination than I have ever seen in a team at any level.
 
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Razorback here, Y'all have a great chance to win this Staturday. If your qb can make acurrate throws to his receivers then you will win going away. Alabama's secondary is not very good imho and you have a much better running game than the Hogs. So Go Vols and Beat Bama.:rock::good!::good!:
 
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kaiserhog said:
Razorback here, Y'all have a great chance to win this Staturday. If your qb can make acurrate throws to his receivers then you will win going away. Alabama's secondary is not very good imho and you have a much better running game than the Hogs. So Go Vols and Beat Bama.:rock::good!::good!:
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Thanks Pig!
 
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This one will be all about offense and Dobbs. Can the Senior beat the Freshman? We have the talent to score. I am not sure we have the depth to keep the defense fresh for four quarters.
 
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VersaceButch said:
I just don't get this drastic line shift. 5 points in 24 hours on some sites?? I get that we are banged up but we have a home game and have not been beaten by double digits since early 2014. How can people really think this TN team will get rolled at home more so than they did on the road against eventual National Champions Alabama last year?

This is going to be a fight. One I don't expect us to win, but our guys are not going to roll over at home.
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The Deplorable Masses are driving the line from 8 to 13. 59% to 41% for Gumps on the split as of Weds. This is actually potentially great news. Same thing happened during FL week. What you want to look at is where the money goes on Friday afternoon. That is when the wise ones put down big money. If a lot of late money goes to the Big Orange watch out should be a nail biter and we will knock em off
 
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1725gatorhater said:
Personally I feel that we took on the best team in west at their home in double overtime. This is not Bama's year. We will beat Bama and they will drop another to A&M the following week and we will play A&M again.
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Obviously you haven't seen a single Alabama game this year.
 
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There was a point made in the preseason that Bama has never won the NC when they were preseason #1. Doesn't really mean anything, but their team does have weaknesses. Most notably on the OL and perhaps the secondary. QB is another factor, but he's actually performed pretty well in away SEC games. The Neyland Effect needs to be at full force.
 
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VOL-uh-tile said:
There was a point made in the preseason that Bama has never won the NC when they were preseason #1. Doesn't really mean anything, but their team does have weaknesses. Most notably on the OL and perhaps the secondary. QB is another factor, but he's actually performed pretty well in away SEC games. The Neyland Effect needs to be at full force.
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That wouldn't be true. Bama has won the NC after being preseason number one.

And I've never even seen a NC team that didn't have "weaknesses," Everything is relative. Weak compared to what?

I hate getting into a pile of myopic stats that really prove nothing and ends up straining the eyes. So I will say this:

All Hurts has done is direct the highest-scoring offense in Saban’s decade of dominance in Tuscaloosa. The Tide are averaging an SEC-best 44.8 points per game.

Hurts is completing 63.8 percent of his passes for 1,242 yards. Perhaps most surprisingly, he’s taking care of the football. He’s thrown 9 touchdown passes and just 2 interceptions.

That’s the fewest interceptions among the eight SEC quarterbacks who have thrown at least 150 passes this season. It’s six fewer than Vols senior signal-caller Joshua Dobbs.

He’s also third among SEC QBs with 296 rushing yards.
 
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