Tennessee not covering the spread/Your outlook

If Tennessee does not cover against Appy State will your outlook be diminished?

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#26
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jasonvol18 said:
I'm really not sure we cover the spread especially being week 1. I would imagine play calling is very vanilla on both sides of the ball and if the opportunity presents itself we get as many starters out soon as possible and let the 2nd and 3rd stringers get as many reps as possible. I would imagine ending the game as healthy as possible is much higher on the priority list than covering the spread. In a perfect world Dobb's,Hurd,Kamara,Sutton,JRM and the rest of the starters are out by halftime and our backups pad the lead and the stats. Let Dormady throw it 10-15 times and let S.Jones sling it around a little in the 4th Quarter
And let JK,CFA and I forgot the name of the late addition RB all get 10 or so touch's. Of course things usually don't work out the way we want and end up having to play the starters longer than they should have to. Would love to be up 35-0 or 42-0 at HT and not have to worry about seeing the starters again till next Sat night. You just never know how first games of the season will end up going
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To clarify, my personal outlook would only be affected with respects to how we "looked" in not covering the spread, as previously stated by vollygirl. I was mainly curious on how other fans felt, given the hypothetical.

I put the same asterisk on the first game, like yourself, for things like vanilla play-calling, protecting starters, the unknown of how good the opponent actually is, etc. etc.

If, say, UT were to win it by a last-second FG, however, then I'd personally have to wonder a bit more about the following game. I wouldn't lower my season predictions for that, but if something similar to the aforementioned scenario happened through game three, I might.
 
#27
#27
It is the first game of the year so there are a lot of unknown. That being said the gambler in me always comes back to "Good teams win, Great teams cover"
 
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He_Made_It said:
To clarify, my personal outlook would only be affected with respects to how we "looked" in not covering the spread, as previously stated by vollygirl. I was mainly curious on how other fans felt, given the hypothetical.

I put the same asterisk on the first game, like yourself, for things like vanilla play-calling, protecting starters, the unknown of how good the opponent actually is, etc. etc.

If, say, UT were to win it by a last-second FG, however, then I'd personally have to wonder a bit more about the following game. I wouldn't lower my season predictions for that, but if something similar to the aforementioned scenario happened through game three, I might.
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Did you think the same thing when we beat Syracuse with a late field goal in the '97 season? That season ended pretty well didn't it? I put very little stock in the first game of the year, unless we got beat of course.
 
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