How will practice work now our regular season is over

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I’m not sure if the rules with the playoffs. For instance can we practice this week? Do we get a set number of practices? If I recall once you took a bowl bid you had like 14 or something. Anyway, thanks in advance
 
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As soon as finals are over I expect them to kick it back into full gear. We won’t play again until December 20th or 21st so we will have 2 full weeks to prepare for whoever our opponent is. Give Heupel 2 weeks to prepare for anyone and this offense is going to be hitting on all cylinders.

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My guess is they will focus on Finals, but be in the facilities getting treatments and lifts to get their bodies right.
 
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Since it will be more than two weeks between our final regular-season game, we're allowed up to three practices per week of live contact and three days of noncontact or minimal contact per week. The day before and after live contact is noncontact or minimal contact.
 
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Kicker82 said:
We had some guys like Sampson and White banged up at the end of that game so the rest should be good to get them close to full health when we have to play.
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Bru didn't play either and I believe Thornton got hurt after his second TD and didn’t come back. I also believe Peyton Lewis got hurt. So rest is well needed.
 
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I'd say that UT coaches will be hitting the film hard right now to prepare for the 3-4 most likely teams that we will face, and work this week on UT centric error corrections. Once the opponent is finalized after the championship games next week, game prep for two weeks.
 
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If I'm Heupel, I make everyone on the roster do cold plunges every day for the next 3 weeks. The team who handles cold weather the best in the first round will win the game, and if we have to travel to Columbus, Ohio or South Bend, Indiana - we will be at a disadvantage because their players have had more time to adjust to a colder climate.

The best example of how cold weather affects outcomes is that the Miami Dolphins are 0-8 in games where the temperature is 45 degrees or lower with Tua Tagovailoa at quarterback.
 
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Man it’s got to be tough right now. Preparing for the game while at the same time trying to hold onto a recruiting class with early signing around the corner. On top of all that, trying to keep your own players here and figure out who is going to be healthy. Throw in NIL just for kicks
 
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VolPack22 said:
As soon as finals are over I expect them to kick it back into full gear. We won’t play again until December 20th or 21st so we will have 2 full weeks to prepare for whoever our opponent is. Give Heupel 2 weeks to prepare for anyone and this offense is going to be hitting on all cylinders.

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I remember the guys on TV says 1 Friday night game, 1 sat morning and night game and then a Sunday game. Had no clue all three would be Saturday. So that's basically 3 night games. Awesome
 
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Anyone know how and/or who will decide teams are slotted for which game? For example, are the #4-#8 seeds tied to a specific time? I hope that is how it goes rather than the committee picking who they want where just for ratings. It should be arbitrary Like the #4 seed gets the Friday game and so on or backwards of that.

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Anyone else think getting that bye might actually set you up for a azz kicking? I'd almost put money on at least two of the teams that played the week before beat those teams the next week.
 
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1Big_Orange_Fan said:
Anyone know how and/or who will decide teams are slotted for which game? For example, are the #4-#8 seeds tied to a specific time? I hope that is how it goes rather than the committee picking who they want where just for ratings. It should be arbitrary Like the #4 seed gets the Friday game and so on or backwards of that.

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5-12 seeds will be playing in the first round… 1-4 will get byes into the next weekend. ESPN is going to pick the two games they want and then give TNT the other two games. Hypothetically, if it ends up Alabama-Notre Dame they will definitely take that game and if it’s Tennessee-Ohio State they would surely take that game too. I don’t think they would take a second glance at it considering you could possibly have Penn State-Arizona State or Georgia-Indiana.
 
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bigdaddy said:
I’m not sure if the rules with the playoffs. For instance can we practice this week? Do we get a set number of practices? If I recall once you took a bowl bid you had like 14 or something. Anyway, thanks in advance
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Week 1 Review lots of game tape and get healthy. Go over new special plays. Let the subs get some extra time in practice.
Week 2 Normal Prep week
 
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bpalmer28 said:
If I'm Heupel, I make everyone on the roster do cold plunges every day for the next 3 weeks. The team who handles cold weather the best in the first round will win the game, and if we have to travel to Columbus, Ohio or South Bend, Indiana - we will be at a disadvantage because their players have had more time to adjust to a colder climate.

The best example of how cold weather affects outcomes is that the Miami Dolphins are 0-8 in games where the temperature is 45 degrees or lower with Tua Tagovailoa at quarterback.
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Oughta take em up to Newfound Gap for a few hours a day, colder up there than it is in Indiana or Ohio. One would have to think that in that regard, Tennessee being the upper south helps slightly. Knoxville will be the coldest SEC town represented in the playoff by a decent margin. They don’t have what one might call winter in much of the conference. East TN winter may not be Minnesota winter, but it’s something.
 
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Team needs to go down to Colombia and do some stem cell IVs like the pros are doing ASAP. They got the money for it with all the NIL now. They’d all be healed up and ready to go instantly lol.
 
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