I don't get the confidence in Tennessee beating Florida

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Even the Sports Animal people are confident Tennessee beats Florida and most of them are notorious negavols. And my question is why? The lead-up to this game feels very much like most of the Florida games the last 20 years. We are reeling from a bad loss and our o-line is looking very suspect. The sugar on top is our young QB appears to be going through growing pains and is dealing with shaky confidence from some mistakes and getting hit a lot in SEC play.so far. I don't feel good about this game at all.. I hope I'm wrong.
 
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You being optimistic is natural. It's called being a Vols fan. We've been bitten by reality more times than not after buying into false hope. Truth is, our Oline hasn't played like that and our QB hasn't been that bad. It's one game and not an indicator of what this team can do. Plus, night time Neyland is another animal and quite frankly, Florida sucks.
 
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Had we boat raced Arkansas I still wouldn't feel good about this game. Why? Because it's UF. and over the last 20 years we have not played them well. It doesn't matter how good we are or how bad they are. I will be surprised if we win this game. And I will keep saying this until we reel off 3 or 4 in a row against them. Just the way it is.
 
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ConantheVolbarian said:
Even the Sports Animal people are confident Tennessee beats Florida and most of them are notorious negavols. And my question is why? The lead-up to this game feels very much like most of the Florida games the last 20 years. We are reeling from a bad loss and our o-line is looking very suspect. The sugar on top is our young QB appears to be going through growing pains and is dealing with shaky confidence from some mistakes and getting hit a lot in SEC play.so far. I don't feel good about this game at all.. I hope I'm wrong.
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I never feel good about playing Florida. Every year it I dread it because more often than not we do not look great while UF looks like they can beat anybody.
 
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OrangeBeachVol said:
I don't see how any Vol fan can feel confident about it based our track record against them with multiple coaches. Us being the better team is not an advantage in this series. Just cautiously optimistic.
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Because the past has nothing to do with this game.

Time to move on.
 
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Remember what happened the year before last, in Neyland? We're in Neyland again this Saturday.

Also, our program is on the rise, has been for the last few years, while Florida's has degraded and bumped along near the bottom.

Those are the main two reasons I'm confident we're gonna whup Gator butt.

Go Vols!
 
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ConantheVolbarian said:
Even the Sports Animal people are confident Tennessee beats Florida and most of them are notorious negavols. And my question is why? The lead-up to this game feels very much like most of the Florida games the last 20 years. We are reeling from a bad loss and our o-line is looking very suspect. The sugar on top is our young QB appears to be going through growing pains and is dealing with shaky confidence from some mistakes and getting hit a lot in SEC play.so far. I don't feel good about this game at all.. I hope I'm wrong.
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You don't get it. But, you know, some of us don't know how to surrender to hopelessness, even when we're down and out. We just got faith of the heart.


You see, some of us Vols fans, like Benjamin Grimm, just don't know how to stay down. We're champions, and we know it. Gators and everybody else be dayumed.
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Re the UT vs UF series;
i have always believed that when we were good, they were better.
When they were bad, we were worse.
If SOS had Peyton Manning and Jamal Lewis in the same backfield, he would have never lost a game.
 
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I have ZERO confidence saturday. I said in my score prediction that i think we lose. Until Heupel can prove he can scheme around the 3-3-5 and the mediocre oline play. We are in trouble.
 
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I felt pretty good till the last two outings. Just feels like underachieving is the new m.o. at this particular juncture. It seems like they're not feeling it, I like to see them getting cranked up and getting each other siked. Hopefully they get fired up and whoop the hell outta floriduh. GBDO
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
You don't get it. But, you know, some of us don't know how to surrender to hopelessness, even when we're down and out. We just got faith of the heart.


You see, some of us Vols fans, like Benjamin Grimm, just don't know how to stay down. We're champions, and we know it. Gators and everybody else be dayumed.
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Great comic
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Remember what happened the year before last, in Neyland? We're in Neyland again this Saturday.

Also, our program is on the rise, has been for the last few years, while Florida's has degraded and bumped along near the bottom.

Those are the main two reasons I'm confident we're gonna whup Gator butt.

Go Vols!
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I was at that game 2 years ago, Florida was one hail Mary from winning that game. I will there tomorrow, hopefully we can play Much better than last week and win. If not we're in trouble. Go Vols
 
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BigOrangeFanatic said:
Had we boat raced Arkansas I still wouldn't feel good about this game. Why? Because it's UF. and over the last 20 years we have not played them well. It doesn't matter how good we are or how bad they are. I will be surprised if we win this game. And I will keep saying this until we reel off 3 or 4 in a row against them. Just the way it is.
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Agreed. No matter how bad those clowns are they always play out of their minds against us and we play like hot garbage. Kinda like last week, I'm definitely worried.
 
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It's like some of our fans inadvertently wish dread upon us every year with their whines of defeats past. It's like a black magic voodoo chant.

If we lose tomorrow it's their fault. They believe in the voodoo curse and yet they stir it up and invite it.
 
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Behr said:
It's like some of our fans inadvertently wish dread upon us every year with their whines of defeats past. It's like a black magic voodoo chant.

If we lose tomorrow it's their fault. They believe in the voodoo curse and yet they stir it up and invite it.
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If we do lose tomorrow, the fans will have nothing to do with it. I will be there and the fans will give their all. Hopefully the team does the same. Team has to play much better if they want to win!
 
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Have you watched UF? All you talk about is not understanding based on UTs play but there are 2 teams.
 
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If we can't throw down field against FL then we'll get beat. Two runs up the middle followed by a screen pass for no gain won't cut it this week. Hoping for a turnaround tomorrow.
 
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ConantheVolbarian said:
Even the Sports Animal people are confident Tennessee beats Florida and most of them are notorious negavols. And my question is why? The lead-up to this game feels very much like most of the Florida games the last 20 years. We are reeling from a bad loss and our o-line is looking very suspect. The sugar on top is our young QB appears to be going through growing pains and is dealing with shaky confidence from some mistakes and getting hit a lot in SEC play.so far. I don't feel good about this game at all.. I hope I'm wrong.
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You do know we've yet to play a home game against a Power 4 opponent? All our big games thus far have been on the road. Maybe you don't know it but winning on the road is tough. Even for elite teams. Just look at Georgia and Alabama thus far on the road. Georgia beats Kentucky by 1 point and then loses to Alabama who ends up losing the following week at Vandy.

We're gonna beat Florida cause we're the better team by a WIDE MARGIN (something that has rarely happened in this series recently) and because we're playing at home (which is a huge advantage in college football). That is why people are confident. They're using logic and reason rather than emotion (which is what you're using).
 
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