We should never play Bama again

#5
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hUTch2002 said:
Ah, the old “take my ball and go home approach”. I’m personally not a fan.
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We have had 15 years of terrible football and meaningless bowl games. If it puts us in a position like Georgia I’m all for it. Georgia plays a cupcake from the west almost every year. You think they care if they walk into playoffs only having to play Mississippi State and the weakest Auburn team in recent memory? I want us to play meaningful football and if the committee doesn’t respect strength of schedule why should we?
 
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Volsinnash said:
We have had 15 years of terrible football and meaningless bowl games. If it puts us in a position like Georgia I’m all for it. Georgia plays a cupcake from the west almost every year. You think they care if they walk into playoffs only having to play Mississippi State and the weakest Auburn team in recent memory? I want us to play meaningful football and if the committee doesn’t respect strength of schedule why should we?
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WE should’ve handled business against South Carolina and all of this would be a non issue.
 
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chuck0303 said:
I saw somewhere today that said when Texas & Oklahoma join the SEC that they will eliminate the divisions and the top two winning-est teams will play each other in the SEC championship game. True. I don't know.
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Yep under that format we would be playing Georgia Saturday. It is appears that is coming.
 
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Volsinnash said:
If head to head records or strength of schedule doesn’t matter for rankings, why should we schedule bama every year or tough out of conference opponents?
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Completely agree. Quality wins and strength of schedule are meaningless. Drop the Bama game and give us another cupcake. Don’t schedule any real good OOC opponents.
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
Completely agree. Quality wins and strength of schedule are meaningless. Drop the Bama game and give us another cupcake. Don’t schedule any real good OOC opponents.
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We're in the SEC. If we trade out Bama, we have to play another SEC West school to keep the 8 in conference schedule.

Do you want Arkansas to be our 3rd Sat in Oct rival or Missouri? Sounds exciting, eh?

Blaming Alabama because we didn't take care of business is weak. If we'd done the job in Columbia like we were 21 point favorites to do, this thread never occurs.
 
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Those of you supporting not playing Alabama, I don't want to see a word from you about Tennessee traditions.

If someone wants to make Neyland seat 80k and put in seats, keep your trap shut about tradition.

If someone wants to stop playing Rocky Top, you'd better not say, "It's tradition!"

If we do away with the T, I don't want to see a peep from y'all about tradition.
 
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Volsinnash said:
If head to head records or strength of schedule doesn’t matter for rankings, why should we schedule bama every year or tough out of conference opponents?
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Who said those things don’t matter?

The SOS is basically a wash. Bama at 8 and Tennessee at 7.

Bama SOR at 5, Tennessee’s is at 7

Bama FPI at 2, Tennessee at 5

Tennessee has the head to head, but I can assure you it’s slight, because it was home and on last second FG. Still have the edge, but it isn’t huge

Tennessee has the win advantage

Bama definitely has the loss advantage

Tennessee has a bad disadvantage in they have been non competitive in 1 game and blown out by 4 scores in another.

Tennessee lost late……no time to work back up (non factor but it’s real)

They are 6th and 7th

I’m not real sure how anyone can argue if it were either way. Bama should have taken care of business vs Tennessee or LSU and Tennessee should not have let a 25 point SC beat down happen.
 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
Those of you supporting not playing Alabama, I don't want to see a word from you about Tennessee traditions.

If someone wants to make Neyland seat 80k and put in seats, keep your trap shut about tradition.

If someone wants to stop playing Rocky Top, you'd better not say, "It's tradition!"

If we do away with the T, I don't want to see a peep from y'all about tradition.
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Tradition went out the window when they instituted the playoffs. One loss used to eliminate you and the rivalries meant more in that scenario. This year no one really cared about the result of the Georgia game because they thought it wouldn’t matter at the end of the year. And when we go to 8 or 12 teams the games will mean even less. Hell 3 loss teams will be able to play for a national title lol.
 
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Volsinnash said:
Tradition went out the window when they instituted the playoffs. One loss used to eliminate you and the rivalries meant more in that scenario. This year no one really cared about the result of the Georgia game because they thought it wouldn’t matter at the end of the year. And when we go to 8 or 12 teams the games will mean even less. Hell 3 loss teams will be able to play for a national title lol.
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With the mandatory top 4 at some point we will see 4 loss teams not only in……but getting a bye.

Not often, but it has happened and will happen again.
 
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When Oklahoma and Texas hit, they may rotate off the schedule. But we have no choice but to play them. I'll be curious to see how it all unfolds with divisions gone. You kinda have to have a true complete rotation and not keep any permanent rivals, to make it fair.
 
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VolArmy74 said:
When Oklahoma and Texas hit, they may rotate off the schedule. But we have no choice but to play them. I'll be curious to see how it all unfolds with divisions gone. You kinda have to have a true complete rotation and not keep any permanent rivals, to make it fair.
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I will say this. When the playoffs expand it will help us having a tougher schedule when determining at large bids for the playoffs. But that’s the only bright side I see to playing them every year.
 
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Volsinnash said:
Tradition went out the window when they instituted the playoffs. One loss used to eliminate you and the rivalries meant more in that scenario. This year no one really cared about the result of the Georgia game because they thought it wouldn’t matter at the end of the year. And when we go to 8 or 12 teams the games will mean even less. Hell 3 loss teams will be able to play for a national title lol.
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We don't play Bama for the playoffs. We play Bama because we hate those SOBs and getting to beat them is a pleasure we've enjoyed more than any other football program.

One of the guys from my HS in TN went to play LB for Bear over Battle. I won't say I never spoke to him again, but it changed things.

CONSTANTLY here I see people (including me) bitch about how college football is changing, the portal sucks, NIL is ruining football, etc and then I see posts like these that want to voluntarily tear down traditions. I just don't get it. Whatever traditions we can keep, we should keep.
 
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VolArmy74 said:
When Oklahoma and Texas hit, they may rotate off the schedule. But we have no choice but to play them. I'll be curious to see how it all unfolds with divisions gone. You kinda have to have a true complete rotation and not keep any permanent rivals, to make it fair.
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That's troubling and I hope we can keep things like the 3rd Sat, the Iron Bowl, the Egg Bowl, etc.

Maybe I'm just old but this gets under my skin, y'all call it triggered, because seeing red and that damn elephant on the other sideline CANNOT be something we no longer care about.

 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
Those of you supporting not playing Alabama, I don't want to see a word from you about Tennessee traditions.

If someone wants to make Neyland seat 80k and put in seats, keep your trap shut about tradition.

If someone wants to stop playing Rocky Top, you'd better not say, "It's tradition!"

If we do away with the T, I don't want to see a peep from y'all about tradition.
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Stop telling other fans how to fan. You are being ridiculous.
 
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