I’m realistic. We will not beat Bama in two weeks with our current offense. We’re gonna need JTD or Dwan to get better all season and we will have a shot in the SECCG if we beat Florida.
Here, I'll help you be even more realistic.
This coming Saturday, Jeremy Pruitt's defense is going to remind the college football world that Georgia is playing a backup quarterback. Mr. Bennett is going to spend the first half of the game confused and increasingly frustrated. He will spend the second half angry, afraid, and broken. You will watch him lose his spirit during this game.
Both teams are going to struggle to sustain drives. The defenses are going to rule over the offenses. Both ways. Field position will become key as the two teams swap punts from series to series.
As the game closes, with Jarrett Guarantano taking a knee in the victory formation, the scoreboard is going to read 17-16. Two touchdowns and a field goal (one of the TDs by the defense) will have beaten one touchdown and three field goals.
UGa will have gotten into the red zone more often than the Vols, but that won't have been a difference in the game.
The difference will be that Tennessee's QB played smart, didn't try to force things, took what the defense would give him, and handed the ball off to his running backs what felt like 100 times so that they could take advantage of running behind the best offensive line in college football. Meanwhile, UGa's quarterback floundered and made key mistakes.
There, sip on that reality for a bit. It's coming for you. You gotta be ready for it.
Go Vols!