GoBigOrangeVols
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Don’t see how anyone could say Tennessee “got lucky” vs Mississippi State because I don’t think we played a good game at all offensively and still beat their ass.
I don't subscribe to the notion that we didn't play well offensively on Saturday. If you look at numbers, we had 357 yards on just 58 plays, and controlled to ball for 33+ minutes. That's 6.16 y/p and .56 minutes per play.
Compare that with what Alabama did on Saturday against A&M: They had 448 yards on 65 plays, and they had the ball for 29 minutes. that's 6.89 y/p and .48 minutes per play.
We showed slightly better ball control, and only slightly worse yards per play than Alabama did against a similar defense.
Now, they scored 48 and we scored 20 --- but we only needed 13 to win; they needed at least 28.
I don't think we played poorly at all on offense Saturday -- in fact, I think it was our best offensive game of the season (outside UTC). We did exactly what we needed to do on offense to win the game.