What's the most IMPORTANT game for UT this year?

#51
#51
Florida is the most important. We will trounce USC and UGA in front of rocking crowds at Neyland. Alabama will be tough just 'cause it's Bama but we'll win that one too.
 
#55
#55
Lexvol said:
As I mull this over in my mind, I can understand why a Gator might circle other games on the schedule. But if by chance (I give it about 35%) the Gators lose to the Vols, it will be the most important game of the season for them as well.
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Hadn't thought to ask myself the same question. I would have to mull that over a bit. UT game seems to be key to winning the SECE, the UGA game may be the difference maker should we have one loss and you guys threatening to blow your advantage should you have beaten us, then there's FSU ...

Tough call.


Fine Vol said:
LAW how much of a chance do you really feel we have of winning in SwampVille.
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Right now, this moment, I'd say you win it about 1 in four tries. Ask me tomorrow and I may say 1 in 6. Ask me in a few months and I may say 3 in 4.

Depends in part on whether our team can all get paroled at the same time.
 
#56
#56
lawgator1 said:
Hadn't thought to ask myself the same question. I would have to mull that over a bit. UT game seems to be key to winning the SECE, the UGA game may be the difference maker should we have one loss and you guys threatening to blow your advantage should you have beaten us, then there's FSU ...

Tough call.




Right now, this moment, I'd say you win it about 1 in four tries. Ask me tomorrow and I may say 1 in 6. Ask me in a few months and I may say 3 in 4.

Depends in part on whether our team can all get paroled at the same time.
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LOL, I will bet $100.00 if ya give me the 4-1 odds:yes:
 
#57
#57
No way we can lose to a team from the PAC 10 and still be taken seriously... if we win the SEC crown but lost to CAL then everyone will be saying how much stronger the PAC 10 team is than the SEC. Once we beat CAL then the most important game is Florida, for real.
 
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#58
Lexvol said:
I guess that I am thinking if we lose to Cal then there really are no important games for the Vols. If we can't beat Cal, we aren't going to compete with any big name schools.
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with your lack of experience in the secondary and at WR you may be a completely different team mid/late season than you are the first game.
 
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#60
Orange Delight said:
No way we can lose to a team from the PAC 10 and still be taken seriously... if we win the SEC crown but lost to CAL then everyone will be saying how much stronger the PAC 10 team is than the SEC. Once we beat CAL then the most important game is Florida, for real.
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unless you think you are going to challenge for the NC, the florida game has to be the most important.
 
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droski said:
with your lack of experience in the secondary and at WR you may be a completely different team mid/late season than you are the first game.
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If it takes that long the Vols will not be contending for anything significant.
 
#67
#67
If we come out of the swamp alive - we have a very good chance of taking the East. If we don't, I see another 8-4 season. So Florida is the hinge game.
 
#69
#69
UGA's the most important game, IMO. A realistic look at the division indicates that UF has such a demographic advantage that, given good to excellent coaching, they should be in the driver's seat more often than not. They currently have good coaching again. Therefore I think it's critical to reassert ourselves over UGA and push them back down into the second division spot they occupied for most of the 90s.

Alabama is the game that I care about the most. Florida is the one everybody circles on the calendar. But it's not a coincidence that our program went into decline about the same time that GA started beating us regularly. That needs to stop.
 
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Fine Vol said:
Tenn. seems to play to the level of the opposition.
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That does seem to to be the M.O. of the past few seasons. When Phil was in his prime UTK would blow-out the ugly stepsisters by 30-40 points. Vandy has been making a living off of playing to the competition for years and if their kind of success is where this road leads then I am all for resuming running up the score whenever possible.
 
#71
#71
Vercingetorix said:
UGA's the most important game, IMO. A realistic look at the division indicates that UF has such a demographic advantage that, given good to excellent coaching, they should be in the driver's seat more often than not. They currently have good coaching again. Therefore I think it's critical to reassert ourselves over UGA and push them back down into the second division spot they occupied for most of the 90s.

Alabama is the game that I care about the most. Florida is the one everybody circles on the calendar. But it's not a coincidence that our program went into decline about the same time that GA started beating us regularly. That needs to stop.
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Harsh.

A reasoned view of things, and certainly defensible. But harsh.
 
#72
#72
lawgator1 said:
Finevol has his thread about the hardest game to win. Let me change the topic slightly. What's the most important?

Now think before you answer. On papper, Florida is the most important because the winner has such an advantage in the SECE. But, can't an argument be made that its the Cal game because it sets the tone for the rest of the season? What about the 'bama game? Do you need to let Saban know whose boss, not for this year, but for the rest of the decade?

Hmmmm ....
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It's got to be Florida. We stomped Cal last year and we all saw what a "tone setter" that turned out to be. Not only does beating Florida give us an early leg up in the SECE...but I think Florida is the real tone setter for our season every year. It occurs so early and not only are we behind the 8-ball immediatelyif we lose but it is also extremely demoralizing for players and fans alike to lose to the Gators
 
#73
#73
lawgator1 said:
Harsh.

A reasoned view of things, and certainly defensible. But harsh.
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I try to be realistic. Florida had as much talent in anyone in the league even in the 90s, with a coach who was not exactly regarded as being entirely devoted to recruiting. There's 25 million people in the state, for crying out loud. Given good coaching, they're going to be in the mix every year. So UT needs to make this a two-horse race again, like it was in the 90s. Richt's success has come largely at our expense.
 
#74
#74
TuskALoosa said:
Nick has been quoted as saying that the game of life is the most important one. He's really more of a father figure to the players than a head coach.
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That's got to be one sorry @$$ family environment. .........having a Dad thatwill bail without a moments notice.
 
#75
#75
Vercingetorix said:
I try to be realistic. Florida had as much talent in anyone in the league even in the 90s, with a coach who was not exactly regarded as being entirely devoted to recruiting. There's 25 million people in the state, for crying out loud. Given good coaching, they're going to be in the mix every year. So UT needs to make this a two-horse race again, like it was in the 90s. Richt's success has come largely at our expense.
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Oh, boy. I think you are really going to hear it now. You almost sound as though it is fated that UT be second-fiddle to UF forever.
 
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