Some depressing statistics

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Vols033

Vols033

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Listed below are Tennessee's rushing totals as a team year by year 2004-10. I have our team totals compared to the National Champion from that year along side.

2004 UT-2418, USC-2306
2005 UT-1411, Texas-3574
2006 UT-1404, Florida-2240
2007 UT-1946, LSU-2998
2008 UT-1475, Florida-3235
2009 UT-2043, Alabama-3011
2010 UT-1420, Auburn-3987

I love watching Bray throw the ball around the field to Rogers and Hunter as much as anyone, but until we establish ourselves as a team that has a running game that strikes fear into people, we might as well not worry about winning any championships.
 
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I didn't even have a response to that. It just upset me.
 
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Auburn had almost 4000 yards in rushing last year? That's insane
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Just what I want to read on a friday! It's true though. UT has got to be able to run the ball better
 
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maotai said:
Is that counting bowl games and SECC?
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Yes, total years stats, so every year except 04 and 07, the Champs had an extra game. But, I don't think that would've really mattered looking at how lopsided the stats are.
 
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So you are saying if we get 2240 yards rushing this year, we could be national champs?
 
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Vols033 said:
Yes, total years stats, so every year except 04 and 07, the Champs had an extra game. But, I don't think that would've really mattered looking at how lopsided the stats are.
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The 2004 and 2007 years were padded an extra game for Tennessee. And the 2005 and 2008 years were short two games for Tennessee.
 
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geechevol said:
So you are saying if we get 2240 yards rushing this year, we could be national champs?
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I'm saying that we have to have a dependable running game to ever win a championship. We can't continue to rush for a mediocre amount of yards against quality opponents and ever expect a change in our status in the SEC. Remember, this stat could get much uglier if i brought up rushing yards per year against quality SEC opponents. Keep in mind that Auburn ran for over 400 yards on LSU last year.
 
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maotai said:
The 2004 and 2007 years were padded and extra game for Tennessee. And the 2005 and 2008 years were short two games for Tennessee.
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Yes if you want to get exact. You think we make up the difference if we had 2 extra games?
 
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Vols033 said:
Yes if you want to get exact. You think we make up the difference if we had 2 extra games?
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Numbers wise yes, 2 games could be -10 yards or +400 yards. 2 of the 3 lowest years were 2005 and 2008.
 
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Championships? I just want to win 8 games this year and 9-10 next. 'Course 7 wins could take the SECe, so while we have taken a parabolic fall, others have fallen, too.
 
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It would just make everyone happier if you posted yards per game instead of total yards. The fact that our number of total games was different for 4 out of the 7 years posted makes it tough to really see the trend.
 
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Put an asterisk by USC's. They used an ineligible player for a lot of those yards
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Texas and Auburn rushed for so much due to their ridiculously athletic QB's (Young and Newton). Wonder how many we had when Tee Martin was our QB.
 
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