Is Kentucky a must win game?

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Is Kentucky a must win game? We surely don’t want to lose four in a row. Would be huge to get a win over a Top 15 team and would probably mean a 7 win season.
 
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No.

I mean, depends how you define "must win," but most definitions would be answered, "no."

It's not required to get to a bowl.

We're almost certainly not in the hunt for SEC-East, so that doesn't make it must-win.

About the only must-win angle I can think of is, they're Kentucky. We simply do not. Lose. To Kentucky.

So if that's where you're coming from, then Yes. Otherwise, pretty much No.

But it doesn't have to be must-win for us to want to win.

So let's win anyway. Go Vols!
 
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No way....that be dumb. Beat Candy and South Alabama to go bowling.

6-6 vs 7-5....no significant difference. We will take 50,000 fans anywhere, so all the bowls want us badly.
 
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Not at all...with many folks saying a few weeks ago that there was no way we get to a bowl game, this team has already exceeded expectations.
 
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This is super simple. Is it a "must win"? No, you've got two great shots to get to 6-6. But in the sense of trying to be good at football and have positive momentum to sell to recruits and fans? Yes, absolutely. Tennessee needs to beat one good team. That will make their recruiting jobs that much easier. They lost a winnable one with Pitt, and whiffed again on Ole Miss. They need to show they can get it done.

I mean, let's break this down proper -

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Win at Kentucky, win gimme games, win bowl game - 8-5 and a lot of positive buzz. "Eight wins" is like getting a B- on a report card. It's a .600 record, you beat at least one good team, and sounds worlds better than 7 or 6.

Win at Kentucky, win gimme games, lose bowl game - 7-6 and some minor buzz. You did lose at the end, but you finished with a better than .500 record. You beat one good team on the road. That's not bad for the year after Captain Blackmail got the boot.

Lose at Kentucky, win gimme games, win bowl game - 7-6 and some minor buzz. You won at the end, which is good, but you didn't beat any real teams. Still, better than .500. Still not bad.

Lose at Kentucky, win gimme games, lose bowl game - 6-7 and not a lot to say. You beat bad teams, and lost to good teams. Not great. Not terrible.

Lose at Kentucky, beat Georgia - wait what is this doing here? Who put this here? Go on, get out of here. SHOO!

Lose at Kentucky, lose one of the gimme games - womp womp.
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So there you go. Technically no. But totally yes.
 
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mtvols said:
Is Kentucky a must win game? We surely don’t want to lose four in a row. Would be huge to get a win over a Top 15 team and would probably mean a 7 win season.
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No, don’t think so. Certainly, we have a chance but so far in the two games (Pitt & Ole Miss) we had a chance we’re 0-2 and those were at home. We haven’t beaten anyone so far that we weren’t supposed to. Think we’ll finish 6-6 with the music city bowl (hopefully). A decent season all things considered. That it’ll make coach Heupel the first coach since Kiffin to take the Vols to a bowl in his 1st year.
 
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