Ouch. Makes This Season More Disappointing

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BlinghamptonVol said:
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That’s because we should have beaten Georgia 4 different times in that game. We didn’t play and lose our second game to Alabama until the 3rd Saturday in October, and that was after Bama had beaten Georgia. And was a 1 loss team by that point. The loss to 2 win Oklahoma started the slide a couple games after that and we stopped it with a decisive win over FL who played much higher ranked opponents more closely (including Ole Miss the previous week)… so we hung around the top 20 and finally got bounced after getting our butts handed to us at home by Vandy. All that in combination with three receivers over 700, and the most passing yards for a QB in the SEC It’s not baseless. We aren’t in the top 25 now, so I don’t know what this bozo is complaining about. No, it wasn’t made up, it made sense.
 
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Well the Vols didn't make their schedule. They won the games they were "supposed to". The ball literally bounces another way or a different call here or there and the UGA and OU games are wins.

Tennessee played the BEST team Vanderbilt has ever had in 135 years of their football program, a now 10 win team with a Heisman Trophy contending QB and a roster full of seniors and grad students. Can Vanderbilt get even better? Maybe, with the new college football in the NIL and transfer portal era......

We all know that fist and foremost Tennessee HAS to stockpile quality defensive players in multiple positions.

YOU SIMPLY CANNOT WIN IN THIS LEAGUE WITH NO DEFENSE OR EVEN AN OKAY DEFENSIVE CONSISTENTLY.

Score a lot of points and out score people here and there? Sure every once in a while. But that's how you want to live? Have to be excellent on defense and get off the field or you just simply have no legitimate chance.
 
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The difference in winning and losing a close game is often super fine. OU and UGA were basically coin flips. Bama and Vandy were close games midway through the 4th quarter before the wheels fell off.

We certainly aren't a top 15-20 team in the country. But the difference in any of the top 21ish to 35ish teams in pretty miniscule. You could argue any number of those teams are worthy of being a Top 25.
 
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vegasvolfan said:
That’s because we should have beaten Georgia 4 different times in that game. We didn’t play and lose our second game to Alabama until the 3rd Saturday in October, and that was after Bama had beaten Georgia. And was a 1 loss team by that point. The loss to 2 win Oklahoma started the slide a couple games after that and we stopped it with a decisive win over FL who played much higher ranked opponents more closely (including Ole Miss the previous week)… so we hung around the top 20 and finally got bounced after getting our butts handed to us at home by Vandy. All that in combination with three receivers over 700, and the most passing yards for a QB in the SEC It’s not baseless. We aren’t in the top 25 now, so I don’t know what this bozo is complaining about. No, it wasn’t made up, it made sense.
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This is a good analysis^ we played top teams close and basically had one of the best beat. That and how you laid it out with the spacing and rankings of the teams we lost to made staying in the rankings happen. Now, if you put the Vandy blowout where the UGA loss was in OT game, then we would have dropped out of the top 25 earlier. The games where laid out to where we just kept the so called experts guessing.
 
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In all fairness, we didn't play any 7-5, 8-4 type P4 teams this year. The combined record of the teams we lost to was 41-7. We didn't lose to or beat any "sorta good" teams, we didn't have those on our schedule. We had the best and the worst. No middle, SEC schedules typically have not worked like that in years past. I think they need to go back to divisions. Have divisions of 8, you play your 7 division rivals every year, and rotate the other teams 2/2/2/2. That way you still play every team at least once every 4 years.

Make the East:

Tennessee
Alabama
Auburn
Georgia
Florida
South Carolina
Kentucky &
Vanderbilt

Make the West:

Texas
Oklahoma
Texas A&M
LSU
Ole Miss
Arkansas
Missouri
Mississippi State

That preserves all the traditional rivalries and you would have a more true champion of the SEC when the winners of those divisions met.
 
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How is Tulane ranked? They beat a 7-5 ACC team, got demolished by the only ranked team they played and lost by 12 points to 6-6 UTSA.
How is James Madison ranked? They didn't play a single ranked team all season, beat 6-6 Washington St by 4 at home and lost by 14 to 8-4 unranked Louisville.
How is Navy ranked? They beat now unranked South Florida by 3, got destroyed by Notre Dame and lost by 14 to North Texas.
How is Georgia Tech ranked? They haven't beaten a single team that is ranked. They lost by 12 to 7-5 NC State, 14 to 8-4 Pitt and 7 to Georgia. They lost 3 out of their last four games to end the season, yet still ranked.
How is North Texas ranked? Their only ranked win was against Navy, who also has no business being ranked. They were smoked 63-36 by South Florida.

If people want to trash our team for how they performed, fine. Don't ignore other teams for similar results.
 
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Fatdad32 said:
All the teams we lost to are top 12 teams in the country. Our losses only indicate we're not a top 12 team. We are definitely a top 25 team! 2 of those 4 games could have went either way.
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Exactly.
They could have presented it as "TN did not lose a single game to a team not ranked in the top 12". Has a different ring to it.

Is there any unranked team whose only losses were to top 12 teams? I'm guessing no.
 
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madbamahater said:
Well the Vols didn't make their schedule. They won the games they were "supposed to". The ball literally bounces another way or a different call here or there and the UGA and OU games are wins.

Tennessee played the BEST team Vanderbilt has ever had in 135 years of their football program, a now 10 win team with a Heisman Trophy contending QB and a roster full of seniors and grad students. Can Vanderbilt get even better? Maybe, with the new college football in the NIL and transfer portal era......

We all know that fist and foremost Tennessee HAS to stockpile quality defensive players in multiple positions.

YOU SIMPLY CANNOT WIN IN THIS LEAGUE WITH NO DEFENSE OR EVEN AN OKAY DEFENSIVE CONSISTENTLY.

Score a lot of points and out score people here and there? Sure every once in a while. But that's how you want to live? Have to be excellent on defense and get off the field or you just simply have no legitimate chance.
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And the ball bounces a different way, the Arkansas and State games are losses.
 
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The aforementioned Georgia Tech. 9-3, no wins over ranked teams, lost 3 of their last 4. Losses to unranked NC State and unranked Pitt. Four wins that could have gone either way(Colorado, Clemson, Wake Forest, Boston College). Still ranked...
 
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luthervol said:
Exactly.
They could have presented it as "TN did not lose a single game to a team not ranked in the top 12". Has a different ring to it.

Is there any unranked team whose only losses were to top 12 teams? I'm guessing no.
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exactly. you could say the same thing about a lot of ranked teams.

Notre Dame's only "big" win was 9-3 USC
(L) Miami 10-2
(L) TAMU 11-1
(W) Purdue 2-10
(W) Arkansas 2-10
(W) Boise State 8-4 G5
(W) NC State 7-5
(W) USC 9-3
(W) Boston College 2-10
(W) Navy 9-2 G5
(W) Pitt 8-4
(W) Stanford 4-8
P4 teams they beat had a combined 34-50 record
 
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