BigOrangeTrain
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This is how I'd rank them as well, but 4 through 8 could be shuffled into any order and I wouldn't argue. Lots of unknows this year.Here's how I rank Tennessee's 2019 football opponents
#1 Alabama
#2 Georgia
#3 Florida
#4 Mississippi State
#5 Kentucky
#6 Missouri
#7 South Carolina
#8 Vanderbilt
#9 BYU
#10 UAB
#11 Georgia State
#12 UT-Chattanooga
I picked Vanderbilt over BYU and UAB because they're an SEC team. BYU has a poor offense and they have to replace their starting linebackers and I think that leads BYU to a 5-7 record in 2019 which will result in head coach Kilani Sitaki being fired. UAB wont be as good in 2019 as they were the last two seasons because they lost a ton of players. UAB has to break in a new offensive line,new starting defensive line, new linebackers and new safeties. I think UAB goes 7-5 in 2019.This is how I'd rank them as well, but 4 through 8 could be shuffled into any order and I wouldn't argue. Lots of unknows this year.
Agreed. No idea why so many are ranking them high. Vandy, BYU, USC jr, and heck even UAB will be tougher games than them.MSU loses 56% of their defense, 90th in the country. I don't think it will be near what they were last year.
And LOL at giving up 38 to a bum and inexperienced UAB team. If our 4 million dollar defensive man cant keep uab from scoring less than 38 then we might as well go ahead and fire up the old hot board.
And UK is gonna get bushwacked worst than last year.
And no way we whip Vandy. We will be lucky to just slide by them. Mason is a good coach and has had our number. He really gets that team UP for playing us. Meanwhile we sleepwalk into that game on annual basis. Hell they nearly had UF and Notre Dame last year. They will dearly miss Shurmur, but a grad transfer will ease things...just a tad.
Miss State
Mizzou
South Carolina
BYU
Vanderbilt
Kentucky
UAB
Georgia State
Chattanooga
Though, I find it difficult to rank most of these teams this year as there's a lot more turnover than usual entering 2019. Miss State lost a lot of starters; same deal with Mizzou. Kentucky was good last year but I feel like they have the biggest talent dropoff of any team in the SEC in 2019.
Mizzou landing Kelly Bryant was a big coup. They are further down the list without that.
UAB is better than people realize. That and the BYU games are not "gimmes" even if we're the favorite.
Even that may be overstating matters. We struggled mightily with Charlotte.Considering how bad UT has been the last 2 years, all of our opponents will be difficult except Chat and Ga St
Fantastic! We are bringing back about 90% of our offensive production from last year. Of course, that offensive production last year was about 50% of what would be necessary to compete at the top level of our conference.Even with the loss of Richmond and a few other starters, we still bring back the 2nd most starters in NCAA and almost all of our scoring offense.
Most of the new starters for us will be DL and players getting recruited over which is almost never a bad thing. Richmond would have been recruited over unless he moved to guard too.
Wrong. 9 very winnable games if a 90's-era UT team were playing for us. We are nowhere near good enough to say that anymore.1. Missouri
2. Mississippi ST
3. Kentucky
4. BYU
5. South Carolina
6. Vanderbilt
7. Georgia State
8. UAB
9. Chattanooga
9 very winnable games; however Tennessee prob still needs at least a year to start winning every game they should/could.
1. MissouriRank these 2019 opponents from toughest to easiest. These games will be the test of how well our season goes and I want to see what Volnation thinks about our opponents.
-Mississippi State
-Vanderbilt
-Kentucky
-Missouri
-South Carolina
-BYU
-Georgia State
-UAB
-Chattanooga
Even that may be overstating matters. We struggled mightily with Charlotte.
wait...we need to score 44 pts a game to compete?? good luck with that dreamEven that may be overstating matters. We struggled mightily with Charlotte.
Fantastic! We are bringing back about 90% of our offensive production from last year. Of course, that offensive production last year was about 50% of what would be necessary to compete at the top level of our conference.
...and you're suggesting that the transitive property applies to college football?
Wrong. 9 very winnable games if a 90's-era UT team were playing for us. We are nowhere near good enough to say that anymore.