UT is the 2nd best road team in the nation in the last 10 years

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#5
home field advantage means nothing to the vols, lets hope that changes this year especially when we are in the top 3 biggest stadiums in the country.
 
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GAVol said:
That would be slightly more respectable if Georgia had actually traveled west of Fayetteville, Arkansas or north of Lexington, KY in the past 40 years.
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I was thinking the same thing...
 
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sickemsmokey10 said:
Georgia (33-8-0)--0.80488
Tennessee (36-11-0)--0.76596
Texas (34-11-0)--0.75556
Virginia Tech (36-12-0)--0.75000
Miami (FL) (35-14-0)--0.71429
Ohio St. (33-14-0)--0.70213
Florida St. (35-16-0)--0.68627
Michigan (33-16-0)--0.67347
Boise St. (38-19-0)--0.66667
Oklahoma (28-15-0)--0.65116

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I would be interested ins seeing the trend over the last 5 years compared to the last 10. The 97,98,99, and 01 seasons are impressive, outside of that program has underperformed most of the time.
 
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oklavol said:
I would be interested ins seeing the trend over the last 5 years compared to the last 10. The 97,98,99, and 01 seasons are impressive, outside of that program has underperformed most of the time.
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We've still had big wins on the road over the past 5 years.

2003 @ Florida
2003 @ Alabama
2003 @ Miami
2004 @ Athens
2005 @ LSU
2006 @ Georgia

and we've been successful in the places where we're "supposed" to win...Columbia, Nashville, Lexington, Oxford.

Now, big wins at home, that's another story.
 
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VolinArizona said:
Only 3 of the 6 you mentioned are big wins.
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I think that anytime you go into Gainesville or Athens and get a win, it's "big."

I know that Bama wasn't very good in 03, but that it was a dog-fight, 5 overtime game, that will go down as one of the most memorable games in the history of the rivalry...and we were victorious.
 
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Jaytrain5 said:
I think that anytime you go into Gainesville or Athens and get a win, it's "big."

I know that Bama wasn't very good in 03, but that it was a dog-fight, 5 overtime game, that will go down as one of the most memorable games in the history of the rivalry...and we were victorious.
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I don't know man, beating an 8-5 and 9-4 team on the road isn't impressive. It's a good win, for sure, but not a defining win.
 
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VolinArizona said:
I don't know man, beating an 8-5 and 9-4 team on the road isn't impressive. It's a good win, for sure, but not a defining win.
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Well, if you only consider "big" wins as those that come against teams with 10-2 or 11-1 records, then you really only have 1, maybe 2, chances each year to get a "big" win...and those games may not necessarily take place on the road.

"Big" is just a relative term, I suppose.

I guess my main point is this...UT has been consistently successful on the road in the SEC for more than a decade. The Vols have regularly defeated the teams that they're supposed to beat on the road, and they've been solid in hostile environments against rivals and ranked opponents.
 
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VolinArizona said:
I don't know man, beating an 8-5 and 9-4 team on the road isn't impressive. It's a good win, for sure, but not a defining win.
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the only thing i'd sat to that is had we lost any of the three you refer to, they'd be viewed as big losses...that much i know for sure.
 
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And they say winning at home is easier.

That really is an awesome road record. And just thinking about some of those losses where we were in the game going into the fourth...'00 and '02 uga, '00 lsu, '05 uf, ' 05 bama.

I wonder if the home record being so bad against good teams is a result of the team feeling extra pressure being at home, or maybe overconfidence, or they just an edge being on the road that they dont get at home?

Whatever the reason, its extremely frustrating.
 
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GAVol said:
That would be slightly more respectable if Georgia had actually traveled west of Fayetteville, Arkansas or north of Lexington, KY in the past 40 years.
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Also, how does it count when UGA loses to UF at the neutral sit? Probably does not count as a road loss?
 
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