What ability would White have to dictate which team a bowl selects? If there are rules saying they take the highest ranked SEC team not in the playoffs, that's the rule. I'd love the Sugar bowl and being the lead in to the playoffs, but we didn't take care of business. And to be perfectly honest, if I'm comparing bama and UT at this moment, I'm seeing bama with Young in a far more favorable light than UT with Milton. We aren't the same high octane offense we were with Hooker. If he were still playing, our "fun factor" would still be sky high. Now....not so much. We are a shell of what we were earlier this season. Stinks, but that's life. You accept it as being what you have earned and deserve based on your play. Bama might have some losses but they're nowhere near as bad/inept as ours vs UGA and SCjr. Those were flat out ugly. No, UT had a great year by our standards, but we're not nearly at the level some of our fans think we are.
Frankly, a truly, truly awful take.
If we didn’t “take care of business” against a tougher schedule then neither did Bama.
I would love to point out what they did or did not do against the defending national champs or on the road at Sout Carolina for that matter, but I can’t because Bama eluded losses there by not playing either team. They *did*, however, share a common opponent with us in LSU and…well, the Vols certainly “took care of business” against the SEC West champs. Bama did not.
We’ll see what happens, but whatever the outcome, the roster of 2- and 3-star players that bested Bama on an actual football field should be ranked ahead of them and the whole country knows it.
