2024 SEC opponents

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#51
barrylee said:
S Carolina and Texas should be happy, easiest scheduling in my opinion. We have our regular hard schedule and added an at Oklahoma for good measure.

It is what it is but I thought they were going to look at last 10 years and adjust?

Really thought we might get Texas in a battle of UT's..
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I think they put us in Norman in 2024 so that they could potentially have Arch and Texas visiting Neyland in 2025. The storyline of a Manning visiting Tennessee might be too good to pass up . No guarantees that Ewers is gone after this year, but pretty good chance Arch is starting in 25.
 
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#59
Eastknox865 said:
This is what I don't understand a lot of Vol Fans want to continue Alabama Florida and Georgia but if we lose all three you will cry and complain. I care more about wins and would rather play them in the SEC championship. I don't want to hear no crying if we lose. What's more important continue to play the two best teams in America every year plus Florida or win as much as possible.
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Completely agree. The days of laying a tough schedule actually mattering are over. I say play a schedule that’s as easy as possible. Clemson won the NCs and made the playoffs every year by using the easy schedule format.
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
Completely agree. The days of laying a tough schedule actually mattering are over. I say play a schedule that’s as easy as possible. Clemson won the NCs and made the playoffs every year by using the easy schedule format.
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I am good with playing either UGA or Bama in a season. Screw playing both every season.
I would rather play one and face the other in the playoffs.
 
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#64
KINGSVOL said:
Think 2024 is bad, what if we go to 9 games in 2025 without a reset; AL, Vandy, Ole Miss, Texas, Mizzo, USCjr, Auburn, A&M and LSU!!! Hope Nico is ready!!!!!
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Oh no! Wont somebody please think of the power teams and their FCS cupcake game!
 
#65
#65
HiltonHeadVol said:
This schedule for 2024 year simply underlines what I have been saying all along about the folly of going to 9 games. If the SEC gets "shamed" into a 9 game schedule in the following years, blame no one but our own foolishness.....and the begging by the Big Ten and rest of the non-SEC folks for our conference to fall for this. The SEC haters out there know that adding a ninth game almost insures that we lose at least one playoff entry almost every single year. Just look back at 2020 from the pandemic and the 10 game temp schedule. Only FIVE teams finished over .500, two teams were at .500 and Seven teams finished below .500. It is obvious we will beat ourselves up, lose more games, and eliminate a playoff contender almost yearly. Then, because of the arms race in this conference, more coaches fired, coaching salaries continue to spiral, and as such could be risky for a healthy conference whom all wish to copy. This schedule upcoming will be a real test. No need for a 9th game.
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Nice avatar! What beach is that?
 
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So who is the lucky team that gets to play all the bottom level teams? Probably Georgia. They always play the weakest schedule in the SEC.
 
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#68
cherokeeeVOL said:
Looks like the kind of schedule we’re used to. We play most of these teams every year anyway. And we were scheduled to play Oklahoma too before the series was dropped.
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Exactly. Very favorable in my opinion for the Vols. If anything given we have always played Georgia and Alabama annually our schedule remains consistent. 2024, Geogia gets Bama on the road...which is beautiful.
 
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Namorto1 said:
Exactly. Very favorable in my opinion for the Vols. If anything given we have always played Georgia and Alabama annually our schedule remains consistent. 2024, Geogia gets Bama on the road...which is beautiful.
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You must be a young guy. Before the SEC split into divisions, Tennessee rarely played Georgia or Florida. We played Ole Miss much more often. I think our usual opponents were Kentucky, Vandy, Bama, Auburn, Ole Miss, then a rotation of LSU, Miss St., Florida, and Georgia. Ahhh, the good ole days.
 
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Volnanza said:
You must be a young guy. Before the SEC split into divisions, Tennessee rarely played Georgia or Florida. We played Ole Miss much more often. I think our usual opponents were Kentucky, Vandy, Bama, Auburn, Ole Miss, then a rotation of LSU, Miss St., Florida, and Georgia. Ahhh, the good ole days.
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I’m not sure it was really a full rotation among the four based on some of the gaps, was it?

I mean at this point, Tennessee has still played Georgia Tech more times than they have played LSU.

And Tennessee pretty much went from 1955 to 1970 without playing UF in season.

Likewise, Tennessee didn’t play UGA from 1937 to 1968, and even then they only played them 4 times between 1968 and 1980.

Meanwhile, while there was a gap between 1934 and 1948, Tennessee pretty much played Mississippi State yearly from 1948 through 1964 (after which they only played them 3 times between 1964 until 1986).
 
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