BCS Bowl Still in Range?

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I think it's a long shot after the loss to LSU, but just to be optimistic, do you think we have a chance at one of the major bowls? The way its looking now, ALOT of things will have to happen to the teams in front of us.
 
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no. it would involve a nearly impossible series of events that happen in precisely the right way for UT to make it to a BCS game. Even a 1 loss UT team would have been on the outside looking in.
 
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duckman398686 said:
I think it's a long shot after the loss to LSU, but just to be optimistic, do you think we have a chance at one of the major bowls? The way its looking now, ALOT of things will have to happen to the teams in front of us.
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No. There was little chance of us making it in even if we ran the table. At this point, we're probably shooting for a New Year's Day bowl.
 
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Do yourself a favor and get this notion out of you head.
 
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Not unless they invoke a ND rule for TN saying that if we finish in the top 15 in the BCS and only lose 2 SEC games than we get an at large bid. ANd my answer is no.
 
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bigdaddy said:
Not unless they invoke a ND rule for TN saying that if we finish in the top 15 in the BCS and only lose 2 SEC games than we get an at large bid. ANd my answer is no.
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That rule sounds pretty groovy though.
 
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In past seasons, I would have said no in a heartbeat too. However, this is the first season with 10 spots in the BCS bowls, so we'll see if a 2-loss team can get in as an at-large this year.

I've seen several bowl predictions showing a 2-loss LSU team in the BCS.

Already, it looks like the ACC will have a 2-loss team, and if Texas loses again, the BigXII will be represented be a team with at least 2-losses.

Southern Cal plays Cal and Notre Dame, so the probability is high that 2 of those will have 2-losses.

If Auburn stubs its toe against Alabama, LSU will be in the SECCG. Arkansas will lose to both Tennessee and LSU. LSU wins the tie-breaker if there is a 3-way tie in the East.

There is still alot of football left. So who knows? But typically the way the Vols have been snubbed even when they are 10-2 (see 2003).... I think the Vols could end up in a lower tiered bowl again.
 
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this weekends loser likely determines the cotton bowl sec rep....the vols would finish with 3 losses and get the cotton, or the hogs drop the next two games with ut/lsu and finish with 3 losses. the team with 2 losses would head to florida for outback/citrus.
 
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smokierox said:
this weekends loser likely determines the cotton bowl sec rep....the vols would finish with 3 losses and get the cotton, or the hogs drop the next two games with ut/lsu and finish with 3 losses. the team with 2 losses would head to florida for outback/citrus.
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College Football News had us projected to go to the Cotton Bowl and play Oklahoma. Would be a nice match-up. I would rather see that than to see us go to the Citrus/Outback and play Wisconsin or Iowa.
 
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i must admit a little bias for the cotton...living in the dfw area gives me a chance to see the vols in action....weather can be fickle...i sat on a sheet of ice watching us get abused by kansas st and two years ago we torched tex a/m under cloudy skies and balmy 65 degrees.
 
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