jakez4ut
Patience... It's what's for dinner
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:thumbsup: i know it ain't gonna happen anytime soon, and this is going to sound like it's coming out of left feild coming from me, but one of the reaons i think TN is somewhat "irrelevenat" mid to late season is because the FL game is so early in the year.Exactly . . . The back half of the schedule always include tough games with the likes of Alabama, South Carolina, and Arkansas; not to mention when we have a west opponent like Auburn or LSU thrown in there or an out of conference game with somebody like Notre Dame or Miami.
I think under the old SEC system where we were closing with Ole Siss, Kentucky, Vandy 423 would have been right, but not so much now.
by the 3rd week, we've had our litmus test, and we spend the majority of the rest of the year clawing back in with the rest of our sec tilt.
i look around and see the Bama/Aub, FL/GA, FSU/Mia, OK/TX, ND/USC, MICh/OSU type games later on in the year, those games building in anticipation as the season goes on as the teams beat many of the lesser opponents on their schedule, setting up "the big game" between teams that have compiled 5, 6, 7, 8 or more wins against each other.
we get 2-0 vs. 1-0 or 2-0 in the 3rd week....it's the equivelant of a bottle rocket going off, comparitively speaking.
I for one would like to at least swap the FL game for early Nov, where we usualy play a round table West opponent...and give it time to build up. or maybe at the least swap the GA and FL games....
something...caus as i look at teams like GA, BAma, TX...the only reason they are ranked, and relevant is who they played so far. none of those teams are THAT good, yet, the early season schedule affords them to hang around in the national eye a little longer than maybe they should...
and that's not saying that the back end of the scheudl is weak. it's a realization that some other teams have their superbowl toward the end of the year, like they should, and we have the equivelant of the Daytona 500, where no one remembers anything but the winner.
like i said, that's out of left feild...but it's something that has always caught my attention.