Last Third Saturday in October?

[gunner]

Will this be the last annual meeting of the Tennessee and Alabama with the new schedule format next season?

Is Saban sabotaging our annual rivalry game?

 

[stolitonic]

Pretty sure Bama is on the schedule next year. Whether it will be the TSOO or not though, I dunno.

Next year is only going to be an interim year though it seems. I would expect schedule chaos in 2025

 

[Vol in Buckeye Land]

The Tennessee AD and fanbase need to raise holy hell if Sankey doesn’t ensure that the TSIO will be played annually in 2025 and beyond.

 

[Nationdom]

The Tennessee AD and fanbase need to raise holy hell if Sankey doesn’t ensure that the TSIO will be played annually in 2025 and beyond.

Yes sir. They should be our annual and we should be theirs.

 

[Volhoops]

If it is such a rival game between the two programs, why would they not just schedule to play each other in the years they are not scheduled in the SEC ? Same with all rivalries. Sounds like they are still only playing eight SEC games with an expanded league. I personally only care about playing Bama once a year and that is in Atlanta in the conference championship.

 

[Vol in Buckeye Land]

Yes sir. They should be our annual and we should be theirs.

I mean you gotta give them Auburn too. It’s unfortunate that the two biggest rivalries in the conference both involve Bama.

 

[CMcEver]

I mean you gotta give them Auburn too. It’s unfortunate that the two biggest rivalries in the conference both involve Bama.

Georgia/Auburn has been played way longer than either Bama/Auburn or Georgia/Florida, that one won't be received well either.

 

[Special Ed]

I won't miss it.

 

[tennesseekilt]

Will this be the last annual meeting of the Tennessee and Alabama with the new schedule format next season?

Is Saban sabotaging our annual rivalry game?

I sure hope so, or hope it's done after next year anyway. Not playing Alabama until the SEC Championship and/or the playoffs is the best way to make the SEC Championship and/or the playoffs every year, and that's all I care about.

 

[Vol865]

I mean you gotta give them Auburn too. It’s unfortunate that the two biggest rivalries in the conference both involve Bama.

Yet we're losing our 2 biggest rivalries to end up playing Vandy or UK while everyone else gets to keep theirs. The 1-7 model is garbage.

 

[tennesseekilt]

Yet we're losing our 2 biggest rivalries to end up playing Vandy or UK while everyone else gets to keep theirs. The 1-7 model is garbage.

Who cares? We'll play them in the postseason anyway. Why make the path there harder if we don't have to?

 

[Vol865]

Who cares? We'll play them in the postseason anyway. Why make the path there harder if we don't have to?

I care. I want to play actual rivals every year. That's like Texas not getting to play OU every year. It's a loser mentality to shy away from competition. If we can't play ours, nobody else should be able to either.

 

[lukeneyland]

I doubt the Conference would be stupid enough to TSIO fade away

 

[Manchester Vol]

Will this be the last annual meeting of the Tennessee and Alabama with the new schedule format next season?

Is Saban sabotaging our annual rivalry game?

Saban is retiring this year.

 

[VolBricks]

Saban is scared, he doesn't want to play Heupel's teams every year

 

[OrangeInKy]

I mean you gotta give them Auburn too. It’s unfortunate that the two biggest rivalries in the conference both involve Bama.

You act like South Carolina/Vandy just doesn't exist

 

[Vol in Buckeye Land]

You act like South Carolina/Vandy just doesn't exist

You right, you right. An anchor and a chicken, it doesn’t get much more epic.

 

[JCHateSteve]

You right, you right. An anchor and a chicken, it doesn’t get much more epic.

 

[OrangeInKy]

You right, you right. An anchor and a chicken, it doesn’t get much more epic.

It's what football was invented for. Such a rich history.

 

[LadyinOrange]

I won't miss it.

It isn't like it has been much of a rivalry over the last decade anyway.

 

[volsfan125]

Espn will pony up more $$$ in the end and the SEC will go to a 9 game 3-6 schedule with Alabama, Kentucky and Vandy being our annual rivals.

 

[gunner]

Pretty sure Bama is on the schedule next year. Whether it will be the TSOO or not though, I dunno.

Next year is only going to be an interim year though it seems. I would expect schedule chaos in 2025

Yes, based on what I have found concerning future schedules the Vols will play the following SEC games next season.

At Arkansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Vanderbilt with home being Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi State and Florida.

Dates and times are still TBD.

2024 Tennessee Football Schedule | FBSchedules.com

View the 2024 Tennessee Football Schedule at FBSchedules.com. The Volunteers football schedule includes opponents, date, time, and TV.

fbschedules.com

 

[PowerT4me]

We'd see them every other year under this arrangement? I remember losing the Auburn rivalry when we went to conferences. I didn't like that at all but I got over it. I hope we keep it but money means more to programs now than traditions it seems.

 

[VFL-82-JP]

Who cares?

A lot of us.

College football without tradition is just NFL-lite.

I don't watch the NFL, because college football is waaaaay better. More compelling. More flavored. Flat-out more interesting.

And that has a lot to do with tradition and rivalries.

break/break

For what it's worth, I think this recent comment by Saban, and perhaps others less widely reported, might be shots across the bow of ESPN. Showing them a future based on the 1&7 model, in effect telling them to pony up more $$ or lose some of the best annual rivalries in the conference (and big $$ draws on TV each fall).

Hopefully that's all it is, and no one at SEC HQ is seriously considering giving up so many good traditions.

Go Vols!

 

[Behr]

A lot of us.

College football without tradition is just NFL-lite.

I don't watch the NFL, because college football is waaaaay better. More compelling. More flavored. Flat-out more interesting.

And that has a lot to do with tradition and rivalries.

Go Vols!

Lulz. I just spent about 8 minutes typing a TL;Dr response, but I deleted it because it was probably too politically incorrect.

May The TSIO and live forever.