Do we reach top 25?

[GAVol]

We appear to have the worst defense in all of college football. So, no.

We weren’t the worst defense in Lexington tonight.

 

[LucidZ]

All I really care about is getting to a bowl game. Would be great for Heupel's first year and it would be great to get more practice time.

 

[MurphyVol]

I think it would matter to the players. Do you not think they would like to be a top 25 team? Even if it is for a week.

With prepping for UGA and rankings not coming out until Monday, I'd hope they really wouldn't care that that felt "ranked" for 5 days

 

[MurphyVol]

We weren’t the worst defense in Lexington tonight.

Well...their D gave up 4 less points and 150 less yards.

 

[Birdie]

I mean you never come into a game saying, let’s not play defense today, but I suspect the game plan for today was prepare for a shootout and offense needs to score every time we touch the ball.

Then they should have played more aggressive. If you fail they score and our O gets the ball. If they succeed then we create a negative play or turnover. This bend don't break D doesn't help the defense or the offense. Been a fan of Banks this season but not his best night.

 

[Eastknox865]

You're not very good at detecting sarcasm.

got you

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Wake Forest said hold my beer

You’re allowed to put on a clown show after you appear in the rankings, but not before. Just IMHO, of course.

 

[IluvdoubleD's]

pitt is 25.

 

[Zues1]

5-4 ?

 

[USAFgolferVol]

That's literally the basis for the take. If you're tired because you can't get off the field, it's not an excuse. It's just poor defense.

Yep, but we must do something about our offense too.

 

[Sara Clark]

I don't think so. While I'm happy to have won this game....that defense, man o' man very bad, beyond bad. One might make the argument defense had a bad night, to an extent. But coming off a bye week, no excuse for it.

 

[JohnD13]

I'm thinking they keep us outside of top 25 but would like to be wrong. Either way this is the best team we have seen in a long time IMO

DO you people even think before you post this crap?

 

[BruisedOrange]

IIRC, we were preseason ranked in the 50s and 60s by most prognostications.

To finish the bowl season ranked 25th is a worthy goal. It would put us on the nationwide football radar screen like a surface-to-air missile. Posting the name "Tennessee" to the Top 25 list in front of the nation's eyeballs, would put us back in the recruiting conversation for younger players beyond the South and elevate our reception by high school coaches.

Football insiders already know what's happening here. But an end-of-season Top-25 appearance causes the name "Tennessee" to pop up in barber shop conversations, family gatherings, those places where kids hear their elders talking, and take subconscious note of the names that are praised, admired, or respected.

That's where the long game for recruiting success begins.

 

[Gnew6011vfl]

I'm thinking they keep us outside of top 25 but would like to be wrong. Either way this is the best team we have seen in a long time IMO

We won’t be in the top 25 BUT are there 25 times in cfb better than us? I’ll rephrase, out of “ the top” 25 teams how many could beat us right now? IMO there isn’t 25 teams better than us with the points we put up GBO