Ap Top 25, Vols #5

[ABINGDON VOL FAN]

There’s too many variables. Don’t count on it . If Lsu beats Georgia , TN is out .

Nope. TN beat LSU by almost 4 touchdowns and LSU has two losses.

 

[ABINGDON VOL FAN]

Winning the SEC is an automatic playoff spot. Show me actual proof otherwise.

With two losses, No. Give me an example where an SEC 2 loss champion made it to the final four.

 

[LadyinOrange]

Who would have dreamed this possible two years ago?

Sure beats the heck outta knowing your season is over after losing to the lizards in week 3.

 

[LadyinOrange]

Georgia has 62 1st place votes in the AP Poll. Ohio State has 1. Why would anyone vote for Ohio State over Georgia ?

Herbstreit bribed somebody.

 

[Dougie_D]

We win out and we are in The Playoff

Dumbest post ever. We have zero shot of being in a champ game. We can’t just win out

 

[ETV]

Still have games to play and the season is far from over. No matter if UT is in the playoff or not, fans should still be very satisfied with how the team has progressed to this point.

 

[Johnnyreb#VFL]

Need to dominate in these next 3 games. Like 50-60 point blowouts

Nah. Just cover the spreads and we will be sitting pretty

 

[OldVolMan]

I love how the dude from south bend is just completely unwavered that Alabama is not only better than Tennessee but is a top 5 team.

Mike Berardino at College Poll Tracker

Did someone from Tennessee bully him when he was a little boy?

 

[njvols]

Win out and have 2 wins over Top 10 teams.
GA wins out and goes to the SECCG vs LSU.
GA wins that and goes to playoff.
OSU and Michigan will play each other, but neither has the resume that UT does.
GA, TCU (possibly), winner of OSU-Michigan, and UT in the playoffs.
Reasonable?

If we are taking a L it’s better to take it now than closer to end of season. If we take care of business we will be fine

 

[titansvolsfaninga]

LSU isn’t hearing UGA. I don’t think anyone is tbh.

OSU presents a different match-ups than we do. They also drop back and move the pocket.

 

[dduncan4163]

Dumbest post ever. We have zero shot of being in a champ game. We can’t just win out

We don't have to make it to Atlanta to make the playoff a**hole. A one loss SEC school has an extremly high chance of making the playoff

 

[Fightmaker]

With two losses, No. Give me an example where an SEC 2 loss champion made it to the final four.

An SEC champion who limped in after getting scorched at home

 

[dduncan4163]

Still have games to play and the season is far from over. No matter if UT is in the playoff or not, fans should still be very satisfied with how the team has progressed to this point.

Couldn't agree more. Even the biggest sunshine pumpers didn't envision a 11 win regular season. We are less than two seasons removed from complete rock bottom and Heup has us in the Top 5 in the country. He's the coach we've been waiting for Hoss

 

[ABINGDON VOL FAN]

An SEC champion who limped in after getting scorched at home

Who and when?

 

[Fightmaker]

Who and when?

LSU after getting spanked by us, and a very demeaning loss to FSU

 

[ABINGDON VOL FAN]

LSU after getting spanked by us, and a very demeaning loss to FSU

What year and what were the other teams records in the SEC? Still not going to happen this year.

 

[Fightmaker]

What year and what were the other teams records in the SEC? Still not going to happen this year.

We might be arguing about the same cause

 

[kxtop]

If the playoff committee follows suit we will be in a great spot.

Playoff committee should have us 4

 

[TrapVol]

Not that simple. Can’t just pretend they didn’t lose to FSU and get curb stomped by us.

Exactly. No way a 2 loss LSU team gets in over a 1 loss Tennessee team that curb stomped them in their own house. Winning the SECT won’t change that.

 

[Dougie_D]

We don't have to make it to Atlanta to make it to the playoff a**hole. A one loss SEC school has an extremly high chance of making the playoff

You aren’t considering what happens in the SEC championship game. It doesn’t matter if TN wins out and that’s it. TN has to win out and GA has to win. If GA loses, they are 12-1 and we are 11-1 with a WIN over us

 

[Dougie_D]

Exactly. No way a 2 loss LSU team gets in over a 1 loss Tennessee team that curb stomped them in their own house. Winning the SECT won’t change that.

If LSU wins they become the 4th seed as a (11-2) SEC Champ w/ wins over AL, GA , and Georgia gets the 3rd spot at runner up (12-1). How hard is this to get? TN didn’t beat GA

 

[Daniel_Lincolns_Foot]

Yeah, I get that, I was thinking from the Tennessee perspective. If you pretend we’re the #1 team in the country based on talent, we could still easily lose to #2 UGA on the road and then be robbed of a playoff for losing one game on the road to the second best team with that system, which is unfair compared to all the other teams who got to play them at home that year. In the NFL, they have home and away for the regular season to make the division winner arrangement more fair.

Yes, some years your team will be at an advantage/disadvantage with their schedule, but I still think it’s more “fair” than a committee using some list of metrics to rank teams.

 

[dduncan4163]

LSU would have to beat UGA and I don't see that happening. If UGA wins the SEC we get the 4th and maybe even the 3rd spot. The playoff committee has put 2 SEC in the Playoff many times and we are the second best team in the SEC. If we win out we will most likely get in the Playoff.

 

[pimo1]

Very possibly could be Georgia, Ohio state, TCU, and Oregon. (Oregon although not a better resume but they respect power 5 champs.)

Oregon and TCU will both find a way to lose a game before season ends. It's in their nature. The nightmare scenario for UT is if Michigan beats OSU, LSU beats UGA in Atlanta(not likely) and TCU wins out. Right now all we can do is win out convincingly and root for teams like Pitt, Florida and Kentucky to finish strong. We need LSU to win out and lose to UGA. The better teams on our schedule finish out the year the more it helps us we need Bama to win out also.

 

[pimo1]

Still don't understand why it was fair to keep 1 loss Alabama ahead of TCU but can't keep 1 loss Tennessee ahead of them.

I'll be rooting for two UT's this weekend it looks like.

Recency bias, our loss is new. But we will be ahead of them in the rankings that count Tuesday. The fact we lost by 14 is not helpful though.