AP Poll Tennessee at #5 9/22

[adam.vol]

Wow. Not sure I’ve seen a team win and drop 4 spots before.

Maybe Clemson two years ago. Winning ugly every week will cause that.

 

[kell7517]

And the last time that happened teddy Roosevelt was pres.

Was he president in 2013?

 

[Dudleys87]

When you have to “survive” against VANDY.

 

[Dudleys87]

Mizzou sure got punished for squeaking out a win against Vandy

That’s the way it should be. Nobody should need OT to beat Vandy at home.

 

[movinonup]

Picked my screen name when we were at the bottom of the barrel years back..........figured there was only one way to go and hoped to see it one day !
Well that day is here !!!

 

[Boca Vol]

Can't recall anytime where a top 10 team struggled at home playing Vandy. I'm sure Vandy fans will correct me.

UT struggled against Vandy in the mid-late 90's. They gave Manning fits from 95-97.

 

[dovervolz]

Was he president in 2013?

It was a joke. Loosen your panties

 

[GetEmVols]

Looks right to me! And we move up a spot next week after the rock fight between Bama and UGA

Nah ole miss will probably pass us so we won’t move.

 

[kell7517]

It was a joke. Loosen your panties

Cute. But you aren’t funny. Dope!!

 

[Ned Ray McWorkher]

The UGA/Bama loser will fall below Tennessee. The top is for undefeated teams until everyone loses.

 

[dduncan4163]

Some of y’all won’t realize it until we win another National or at least conference championship, but UT is back among the upper echelon of college football where we belong. Will be a perennial contender for the foreseeable future.

I've been waiting a LONG LONG time to say you are 100% correct Hoss. Tennessee has a seat at the table once again. We may very well have a SEC or Nation Championship or both sitting in our trophy case at the end of the season. The lean year are behind us. Time to feast again Nation

Go Big Damn Orange

 

[LittleVol]

Yeah but, the Defense is a lot more than the Line, as important as it is.

It all starts up front.

We didn’t know if Pili would be healthy or not.
Carter is still young and coming off injury and we lost a bunch of starters, but the better your d-line is the better it covers up weaknesses and gives time for them to become stronger.

 

[Daniel_Lincolns_Foot]

In before the polls don’t matter, just win.

They don’t matter much right now, but I still like seeing us in the top 5. Way better than not even being in the top 50.

They do matter more now, though. The higher we can position ourselves early in the season, the better our chances when playoff rankings start rolling out. Getting in the top 5 early and staying there allows for a hiccup later in the season. Not saying I want that, of course, but it’s definitely a little bit of a safety net.

 

[Rockytop10nessee]

Love that Mizzou keeps dropping

Yeah their hype train is over the top. We’d beat their asses

 

[GetYouSomeofThat]

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How damn awesome would a playoff game in Neyland be? If they can somehow hang onto/end up in this spot, that is what we would most likely get to experience.

I am ready to see that now!

 

[Nerwen Aldarion]

How damn awesome would a playoff game in Neyland be? If they can somehow hang onto/end up in this spot, that is what we would most likely get to experience.

I am ready to see that now!

Maybe tptb will want one too

 

[BenGrimm]

I would like to complain but I can't. I can't think of anybody on that list ahead of us that we should about default be passing. Our offense looked very beatable yesterday. Ole Miss's defense is the only defense on that list that I think would have some trouble with us. Everybody else on that list would give our offense the exact same problem that Oklahoma did. Yeah we put up points, but they more or less shut us down. And to be perfectly honest, if they had started the game with that backup quarterback, we may not be smoking cigars and celebrating a win. They're making me question our secondary again. At no point in time during the game were they able to run. But they were starting to carve us up in the passing game.

Both of their scoring drives came after got roughing the passer calls.

And we were in prevent for one of the drives.

 

[Dirtyhairies]

Doubtful

Hey look

Say what? If uga loses, they drop below teams without a loss, I'd say to 8. Uga or bama loser to 8.

Weird, it’s almost like you not know what you were talking about, but you were confident about it too. Crazy how that works.