Biggest Vandy UT game ever?

#51
#51
I'm not sure about that but the stakes are high... I don't care if it's vandy or not. I still hate them. We must win for a bowl so I'd say its pretty big and there is alot of pride on the line.
 
#52
#52
Actually it's a lot worse to lose to a horrible Vandy team than a team that has big sec wins and headed to a bowl. We aren't there yet.
 
#53
#53
This is a copy from a thread on Vandy forum, no joke.

Should it be called a rivalry any more?!
"Rivalry" is a term that has been used in the past to describe the UT-Vandy football series-- but I'm questioning today whether the term is applicable any more.

In a true rivalry, BOTH teams have to participate. With Vandy crushing UT 41-18 last year, being 13-4 in its last 17 games and riding high under James Franklin, and with UT only 3-19 in SEC games the last three years, it doesn't seem to me like much of a rivalry any more.

I confess, there was a time when I used to intensely dislike Tennessee... but not any more. Now, I kind of look upon Tennessee as Vanderbilt's little brother. You know how it is... you may beat your little brother to a bloody pulp when it's just the two of you together, but ultimately you don't want him to reach the point of being totally disrespected by the rest of the world.







speechless.....
 
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#54
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IhateGA said:
This is a copy from a thread on Vandy scout page, no joke.

Should it be called a rivalry any more?!
"Rivalry" is a term that has been used in the past to describe the UT-Vandy football series-- but I'm questioning today whether the term is applicable any more.

In a true rivalry, BOTH teams have to participate. With Vandy crushing UT 41-18 last year, being 13-4 in its last 17 games and riding high under James Franklin, and with UT only 3-19 in SEC games the last three years, it doesn't seem to me like much of a rivalry any more.

I confess, there was a time when I used to intensely dislike Tennessee... but not any more. Now, I kind of look upon Tennessee as Vanderbilt's little brother. You know how it is... you may beat your little brother to a bloody pulp when it's just the two of you together, but ultimately you don't want him to reach the point of being totally disrespected by the rest of the world.







speechless.....
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Delusional.
That doesn't even anger me in the least.
The emotion those words bring out of me is simple pity.
 
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#58
#58
newandbetter said:
Vanderbilt Has A Chance To Make History

Much has been made about Vanderbilt’s beating Florida at Gainesville for the first time since the Second World War. When the clock hit 00:00 at Florida field last Saturday, and Will Muschamp’s world came crashing down around him, it had been over 67 years since Vanderbilt had managed this feat.

Think about that. 67 years.

For a Vanderbilt fan born in 1946 and dying last year at the age of 67, he would have lived his whole life without ever seeing Vanderbilt beat Florida at home. It’s an incredible stat, and one showing the absolute ineptitude of Vanderbilt’s program over that timespan.


Rumors are swirling of Franklin leaving Vanderbilt for greener pasture$.

But there’s another record, even more illustrative of Vanderbilt’s longsuffering, that the Commodores have a chance to do away with during this month of November.

When Vanderbilt beat Tennessee last year at Dudley Field, it was the first time they had beaten the vols in over 6 tries, and one of only two wins over Tennessee going back 30 years. So on the 23rd of November, 2013, Vanderbilt will attempt to do something it hasn’t been able to do in a very long time: beat Tennessee two years in a row.

That’s right. A two year winning streak against Tennessee would be a big deal for the Commodores, and here’s why.

Remember the fictitious Vanderbilt fan up-article, who lived 67 years and never saw Vanderbilt beat Florida in Gainesville? Well, he’s got nothing on Mr Fictitious Vanderbilt fan #2, who lived…wait for it…87 years and never saw Vanderbilt beat Tennessee two years in a row. He would have gone 87 years without ever being able to talk smack about a winning streak, ANY winning streak, even of two years, over Tennessee’s football team.

87 years. It’s incredible, when you think about it.


Vanderbilt's 1922 squad. (Not the 1926 squad, but you get the idea)

1926 was the last year that a Vanderbilt fan was able to look a Tennessee fan in the eye and say “we’ve beaten you two years in a row”. But all that could change in November. Vanderbilt could make history.

Vanderbilt could beat Tennessee two years in a row. Their first winning streak over Tennessee in football since 1926. Will it happen? Common sense says it could. Vanderbilt is playing very good football right now, and Tennessee is not. Vanderbilt has confidence right now, Tennessee does not.

History, however, begs to differ.

I must say I didn't write this. Got it from a Vandy fan.
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Try passing this back to the Vandy fan. 1926 was the year Neyland assumed command of the Tennessee football program. Despite losing to Vandy his first year, Neyland not only "evened the score" with the Commodes but set in motion that 87-year cycle. Fast forward to 2013, Butch Jones' first season at Tennessee. He is already beating the unholy feces out of James Franklin on the recruiting trail; it is only a matter of time before he begins doing it on the playing field. Would the Vandy fan gladly accept another 2-year winning streak over us if it meant that it set in motion another 87-year cycle before Vandy won back-to-back games against Tennessee?
 
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#60
#60
Does anyone think like me, and think that this is Coach Butch Jones biggest game of his career, yea he has had bigger games in mid level football, but this is the SEC, and even though we almost beat GA and beat SC, but none of that means anything if we don't go bowling and hold our recruiting class together as the 2 go hand in hand. Butch can prove that he fits in here and that the Vols have turned the Corner. I think this game is Huge and we will beat Vandy like a Drum.
 
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#65
#65
this game is hugee i am so pumped for it i wish i could come from Birmingham to get loud with my other brothers and sisters but unfortunately i have to work Saturday morning but i will be in front of the tv by game time GO VOLS BEAT VANDY i hope we win out and go to a bowl game......
 
#67
#67
No it is not an end all, but then we are still at the same level that Dooley had us. This is our chance to right the ship and not look back. we need the extra practice and we need our recruits at our bowl game, and not someone else's. And besides we need to shut CJF's mouth once and for all.
 
#69
#69
Nashvol2 said:
Bigger than I wished it was.
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Pretty much. It's bigger than it should be. In the overall history of UT football it doesn't even register. In the short term it carries some weight as to where we are and where we are going.

UT took a couple of positive steps in the middle of the season and have stalled out since. They need a positive finish and there is no excuses for not get one.
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#70
#70
The game itself is largely meaningless.

But UT could definitely use the bowl practice. Not to mention the morale boost that would come along with getting to a bowl.
 
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#71
#71
This game may indeed give fans confidence in Jones, if the Vols are able to pull the upset. On the other hand if the Vols get beat by Vandy it may have the opposite effect.
 
#73
#73
If this is the hugest game in CBJ's career I think that's depressing for all TN fans. It's important in that Vandy embarrassed us last year.
 
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