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Crowded SEC East race dwindles down to two contenders - SEC Blog- ESPN

The race to represent the division in the SEC championship game is down to two teams: Tennessee and Florida.
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Tennessee (7-3, 3-3)

Remaining SEC schedule: Nov. 19 vs. Missouri; Nov. 26 at Vanderbilt.

Path to Atlanta: No matter what it does on the field, Tennessee still needs a Florida loss to even have a chance to claim its first SEC East title since 2007 and first-ever rematch with hated rival Alabama in the SEC title game. But the Volunteers’ path to Atlanta seems relatively smooth. A Florida loss on Saturday and two Tennessee wins over beatable opponents would get the Vols to the top of the division standings.

The bottom line: Tennessee’s Sept. 24 win over Florida looms large now. If Tennessee and Florida finish with matching 5-3 conference records, the Vols would win the division tiebreaker thanks to their head-to-head win. The FPI gives Tennessee a 67 percent chance of beating both Missouri and Vanderbilt to finish at 9-3 overall and 5-3 in SEC play. Its probabilities also show that Tennessee has a 55 percent chance of winning the division and representing the East in Atlanta. But it all starts with an LSU win over Florida. If that doesn’t happen, Florida repeats as East champ and Tennessee’s midseason three-game losing streak will have been its undoing.
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ESPN's latest article on the East race. Saturday could be fun watching LSU beat the gators, and TN securing a dominating win on senior night!
 
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Jones: Vols won't watch scoreboard of LSU v. UF Saturday.

UT hosts Missouri to conclude a three-game homestead at Neyland Stadium at 3:30 p.m. ET Saturday. The Vols - Tigers game airs on CBS.

LSU hosts Florida at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La., at 1 p.m. ET Saturday. The game Tigers - Gators game airs on the SEC Network.

Jones said Monday the result of the LSU - Florida game is out of Tennessee's control.

“In terms of scoreboard watching, we don’t ever look up at the scoreboard," Jones said. “We have to worry about the things that we can control. Control the controllables.”
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Butch Jones: Vols will not scoreboard watch LSU-Florida game | WBIR.com
 
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They better ve focused on whats in front of them, surely they learned their lesson in Columbia
 
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Coach Horse face on UF's chances to secure the East Division.

The stakes couldn’t be higher for this game. Win and you have a date with Alabama for the SEC Championship the first weekend in December. Lose and you’ll be rooting for Vanderbilt to upset Tennessee on the final weekend of the regular season.

“I mean just go take care of business,” McElwain said of the opportunity to go and play for the SEC East championship this week. “Obviously that’s one of your goals when you start, and yet. Yeah we’ll put a plan together, get on the bus and we’ll show up.”
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Florida Gators need rare SEC West road win at LSU
 
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LSU is ready to stomp the gators and end their SEC East hopes!

The Gators (7-2, 5-2) can win the SEC East with a win over LSU (6-3, 4-2) in their noon kickoff Saturday in Tiger Stadium. The Tigers must win to keep their Sugar Bowl hopes alive and continue a resurgence that might just end in the hiring of interim coach Ed Orgeron as the team's full-time leader.

There’s more, too.

The cross-divisional rivalry picked up steam last month, when Hurricane Matthew’s projected path postponed their meeting scheduled for Oct. 8 in Gainesville. LSU’s administration pushed against attempts from the SEC office and Florida officials to keep the game in Gainesville when rescheduled. Athletic director Joe Alleva and LSU officials refused to play three straight SEC road games in a 13-day stretch or lose a home game during such a trying year for a city hit by historic flooding in August.

The Gators ultimately agreed to relocate the game to Baton Rouge after terse negotiations. It resulted in SEC commissioner Greg Sankey chiding Alleva for the athletic director’s public comments about negotiations; then-UF athletic director Jeremy Foley called discussions with Alleva and LSU president F. King Alexander “difficult.”

Meanwhile, a large contingent of LSU fans and some players believe Florida used the hurricane’s predicted path as a way to wriggle out of the game. The Gators were banged up then — and they are now, too, coincidentally.

“They can’t run no more,” LSU running back Derrius Guice said Saturday night.
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Florida players spiced things after the Gators’ win over Missouri on Oct. 15. They draped purple and gold beads around a Halloween figure — a cat skeleton that the school said a fan threw onto the field. Players placed the cat skeleton upright on the field and slung the beads around its neck. That same week, LSU’s live mascot, Mike VI, had been euthanized after a battle with cancer.

Yes, the juices are flowing for this one.

“It’s going to be crazy, especially being at Death Valley for a second year in a row,” running back Leonard Fournette said. “We’re ready.”
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'They can't run no more': LSU, Florida clash with Sugar Bowl (for the Tigers), SEC East title (for the Gators) potentially on the line | LSU | theadvocate.com
 
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There are two weeks left in the season and just as we all predicted, it’s going to be Florida or Tennessee representing the SEC East in Atlanta.

But what if I told you Florida would blow a 21-3 halftime lead and lose to Tennessee? Or that Tennessee would have three conference losses before the end of October? Would you have predicted either team to win the division then?

It hasn’t gone according to script for either side. As of a week ago, every team in the East except Missouri still had a chance to win the division. Yet here we are. If Florida beats LSU on Saturday, the Gators will repeat as division champs. If Florida loses and Tennessee beats Missouri and Vanderbilt to close out the season, the Volunteers will win the East.

“We’re in a two-game playoff,” Tennessee coach Butch Jones said after Saturday’s 49-36 win over Kentucky.
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Through the first month of the season, the Volunteers were college football’s “team of destiny.” They started 5-0 despite trailing at halftime in three of the five games. They followed the second-half comeback against Florida with a Hail Mary on the final play of the game to beat Georgia the next week. There was something in the water in Knoxville.

But Tennessee’s luck ran out on the road at Texas A&M, and as injuries began to mount, the season began to spiral out of control.

First, it was the Texas A&M loss. Then, the Vols were dominated at home against a superior Alabama team. Then, two weeks later, they were stunned by South Carolina and fell two games behind the Gators in the division. Just days after the loss, star running back Jalen Hurd added salt on the wound when he announced he was going to transfer.

Destiny quickly turned into despair.

There’s still hope, though. This isn’t the Tennessee team many of us envisioned before the season. It’s not the team that began the year in the top 10. But one Florida loss to LSU, and the Vols are back in the driver’s seat to win the East.
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Did everything go as planned for Florida and Tennessee this season? No. But the East still comes down to the Gators and the Vols.

The prize for the winner? A date with No. 1 Alabama in Atlanta.
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As unpredictable as SEC East has been, it's still Florida or Tennessee - College Football Nation Blog- ESPN
 
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Bottom line, not matter how you slice it or try and sugar coat it, the SEC E. has been less than spectacular this season. (And the last few for that matter). But someone has to win it. Might as well be UT.
 
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I can't stay away from these threads ! Bring it home VOLS! Find 2 325 pound dudes to play dt vs bama and shock the world 🐘🔫 sec🏆 Go VOLS!
 
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Sadly we've given Vandy something to motivate them. Beat us and they can take it all away, should be an interesting storyline for the game. That said, I don't think they can hang with us. It will be a similar game as the Kentucky game I think.
 
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eskimovol said:
sadly we've given vandy something to motivate them. Beat us and they can take it all away, should be an interesting storyline for the game. That said, i don't think they can hang with us. It will be a similar game as the kentucky game i think.
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do not overlook mo. Did't they beat the h--- out of vandy??
 
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Looks like we are going to beat Florida twice this year. Once head to head and once for the division, assuming LSU does what's expected.
 
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my co-workers from Alabama tell me that Lane Kiffin would like to beat Tennessee for a 2nd time this year. He wants to hang 51 on this defense so that he can tell everybody how he scored 100 points on UT in 1 season.

I for one, would rather end the season 10-3 than 10-4, so leave me out of the Atlanta hopefuls.
 
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Brianchevy said:
my co-workers from Alabama tell me that Lane Kiffin would like to beat Tennessee for a 2nd time this year. He wants to hang 51 on this defense so that he can tell everybody how he scored 100 points on UT in 1 season.

I for one, would rather end the season 10-3 than 10-4, so leave me out of the Atlanta hopefuls.
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Kiffin is a fantastic OC. No doubt about it. I think putting all bias and personal feelings aside most on here agree he's in a class all to himself. However, forgetting to be objective and letting our emotions and personal feelings get the better of us, I think most on here agree he's a cawk sucking douche bag that will one day get the ever living chit beat out of him by some guy who's daughter or wife he's been banging and he'll be ran out of methville or whatever chit hole town he's boss hog in. And my wish is I'm alive and remembered to pay the cable bill so I can watch it.
 
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My money's on the Tigers. UF's SECCG dreams are going to die in Death Valley. We just have to take care of our own business. If we'd have done that in Columbia, we wouldn't have to worry about Vandy.
 
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Butch Jones: Vols will not scoreboard watch LSU-Florida Game........

Maybe that's what our LBs and DTs were doing during the KY game.
 
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savannahfan said:
do not overlook mo. Did't they beat the h--- out of vandy??
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I watched that game. I wasn't rooting for either team, but man, the refs had to be getting paid by MO. Even the announcers were stunned at some of the calls that went against Vandy. And it was on two of their touchdown drives at a point where Vandy would have stopped them on 3rd for a punt on one call, and another would have made MO kick a field goal instead of getting a touchdown. So don't let the score fool you. I really couldn't believe the horrible officiating. It was crazy to watch. It was for that reason, I just changed the channel. I like watching good games as it was close for a while. But when I don't have a preference for who wins, I'm not going to watch a blowout or bad officiated game.
 
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