Good Luck! Hope to see yall in ATL!

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YankeeVol said:
Because you're a fraud
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No. I just know the better the SEC does as a whole the better it is for Tennessee. Conference prestige matters both in recruiting as well as rankings when it's close. Why else do you think we were safely in the playoffs as a 10-2 team but Miami was out at 10-2? If they played in the SEC and we played in the ACC we'd probably be out while they would be in.

When teams are not separated by much being in the better conference helps. And you can't be in the best conference unless the other teams in your conference succeed as well.
 
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DaddyChad said:
Rooting for an SEC team other than the Vols just seems like rooting for an ex that keyed your car and slept with your best friend while you were dating. But in this case I despise Notre Dame, always put those mofos in only for them to be stomped by the first team with a pulse they play.
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As someone who lives outside the SEC footprint, I appreciate the other conferences getting put in their place. I don’t interact with any UGA fans regularly, but I know a lot of fans of Big10 schools who, despite only winning 2 championships in the last two plus decades, continue to believe that the only teams that matter are from midwestern shitholes.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
Good luck to yall as well. I always root for SEC teams to do well in the postseason.

I wanna see Tennessee, Texas, and Georgia all in the Final 4 and us to play yall for the natty.
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SEC teams being good during our decade of misery really helped Tennessee. Nothing better than having a losing record but then pointing out to people that we lost to the national champs and 4 teams who won their bowls. I wasn't about to root for success of the programs that were benefiting from the downfall of UT football. I'll never understand SEC loyalty. Having said that, I also despise almost every other team,so it's really left me on a quandary when SEC teams play non SEC teams.
 
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OrangeInKy said:
SEC teams being good during our decade of misery really helped Tennessee. Nothing better than having a losing record but then pointing out to people that we lost to the national champs and 4 teams who won their bowls. I wasn't about to root for success of the programs that were benefiting from the downfall of UT football. I'll never understand SEC loyalty. Having said that, I also despise almost every other team,so it's really left me on a quandary when SEC teams play non SEC teams.
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SEC loyalty is weird. Drug addict Gators fans and drunk, barking fans of the puppies deserve to watch their teams loose constantly!
 
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OrangeInKy said:
SEC teams being good during our decade of misery really helped Tennessee. Nothing better than having a losing record but then pointing out to people that we lost to the national champs and 4 teams who won their bowls. I wasn't about to root for success of the programs that were benefiting from the downfall of UT football. I'll never understand SEC loyalty. Having said that, I also despise almost every other team,so it's really left me on a quandary when SEC teams play non SEC teams.
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Incompetent coaching would have doomed us in any conference. Just like how we're back to being elite now in a still tough SEC.

Being in the SEC helped us in 2022 when we finally started playing elite football once again. Remember how we quickly rose to #1 in the college football playoff rankings ahead of teams like Ohio State that were also undefeated. Why? Because of the respect you get beating other teams in the SEC. Think about how skeptical everyone is when a new team rises out of nowhere and has an undefeated season going. We naturally doubt if they're as good as their resume. In the SEC that'll never happen. You go undefeated in the SEC you'll be #1 in the rankings just based on the reputation the SEC has built. Mississippi State in 2014 is a good example of this. They're not different than Indiana this year. A typically terrible program that all of a sudden has a magical year. Indiana was doubted (rightfully) early on. Mississippi State on the other hand was never doubted after they started beating SEC opponents.

Conference strength matters when you're actually a good program. And being in a bad conference doesn't make you a good program. It just makes you a fraud that'll be exposed soon enough.
 
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DaltonVol2298 said:
SEC loyalty is weird.
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Only for the uneducated fan. Anyone with common sense knows that you want your opponents to look good against everyone but you that way you look like you're the best. Nobody respects someone beating up on a midget. However if you take down Mike Tyson in his prime you get respected.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
Incompetent coaching would have doomed us in any conference. Just like how we're back to being elite now in a still tough SEC.

Being in the SEC helped us in 2022 when we finally started playing elite football once again. Remember how we quickly rose to #1 in the college football playoff rankings ahead of teams like Ohio State that were also undefeated. Why? Because of the respect you get beating other teams in the SEC. Think about how skeptical everyone is when a new team rises out of nowhere and has an undefeated season going. We naturally doubt if they're as good as their resume. In the SEC that'll never happen. You go undefeated in the SEC you'll be #1 in the rankings just based on the reputation the SEC has built. Mississippi State in 2014 is a good example of this. They're not different than Indiana this year. A typically terrible program that all of a sudden has a magical year. Indiana was doubted (rightfully) early on. Mississippi State on the other hand was never doubted after they started beating SEC opponents.

Conference strength matters when you're actually a good program. And being in a bad conference doesn't make you a good program. It just makes you a fraud that'll be exposed soon enough.
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Conference strength does matter, you are correct. However, in the postseason, it doesn't matter much. UGA winning it all or doing well in the playoff doesn't benefit the SEC next year that much, imo. If UGA or Texas wins it all, I don't believe for a minute it helps Tennessee. It does help them thiugh.

Conference strength matters, but that doesn't mean I'm ever going to root for any of them. There has never been a time in my life that the SEC hasn't been the 1st or 2nd best league, regardless of me rooting against every other team. It all works out. Also, SMU was in a trash league with no good wins and made the playoff. Indiana was in a mediocre conference with really just two good teams, and they made it. So, how much does it matter now? Bama and UK both had bad losses to bad teams in a good conference and it was more important to the playoff committee than the really good wins they had in a really good league. So, using the committee's logic, stacking wins is what matters.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
Only for the uneducated fan. Anyone with common sense knows that you want your opponents to look good against everyone but you that way you look like you're the best. Nobody respects someone beating up on a midget. However if you take down Mike Tyson in his prime you get respected.
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You used too be good at trolling but you've gotten to arrogant lately.

SEC loyalty is for the weak minded. If it makes you feel good that Alabama and Georgia play in the SECCG and Florida goes to the Citrus bowl while Tennessee goes 5-7 and sits at home, then that ain't Educated and common sense in my book.

Lol I bet Bama, South Carolina and Ole Miss fans are feeling the advantages of being in the SEC right now. I can hear them all now "GO Georgia!!!! GO Tennessee!!!! GO Texas!!!"

If we had such great SEC respect just because we were in the SEC, we'd be playing in Neyland tonight.

Gtfo with this weak crap.

GO VOLS!!!
 
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