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but keep in mind that Alabama has held the #1 ranking every season except for 2007 in that run, won multiple national titles, and has been pretty much in the mix every season since 2009. The entire SEC and the rest of the Nation, in general, have been dominated by Alabama.

Auburn is 5-10 against Saban
Arkansas is 0-16
Florida is 1-8
Georgia is 2-7
Kentucky is 0-5
LSU is 4-12
Ole Miss is 2-13
Mississippi State is 1-14
Missouri is 0-4
South Carolina is 1-2
Texas A&M is 2-9
Vanderbilt is 0-4

So it isn't like Tennessee is the only team to have severely struggled against Saban.
 
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Normally, I get streak concerns. After all, football is 80% mental and 40% physical, but Tennessee beat Florida and destroyed LSU, I would like to think they have changed from thinking about being a repetitive loser to the mind frame of, time to bring some pain.

Never know though. They might be sucking their thumb thinking about 15 L's in a row. I doubt it though.
 
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The greatest rivalry in college football and maybe the greatest sports. Right up there with Cards and Cubs.
 
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fossilfiction said:
Normally, I get streak concerns. After all, football is 80% mental and 40% physical, but Tennessee beat Florida and destroyed LSU, I would like to think they have changed from thinking about being a repetitive loser to the mind frame of, time to bring some pain.

Never know though. They might be sucking their thumb thinking about 15 L's in a row. I doubt it though.
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Halph66 said:
And even with all those numbers, Tennessee has beaten Alabama more times than any football program in the NCAA. Just keep repeating that truth. GBO!
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Great point, only Auburn has a better winning percentage against them as well among SEC programs.
 
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This rivalry has usually been of winning streaks but if you would’ve told me when I was a kid that Alabama would go 15 straight, I would’ve fell over dead. We gotta start beating them.
 
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Flipdaddy said:
This rivalry has usually been of winning streaks but if you would’ve told me when I was a kid that Alabama would go 15 straight, I would’ve fell over dead. We gotta start beating them.
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I remember as a kid, people talking about our losing streak against Alabama that started in 1980s and went to mid 1990s. That one was bad as well. It really isn't a good rivalry because one team is always up and the other is down.

Also CFB has been dominated by 3-5 programs in recent history. Ohio State with B1G, Oklahoma with Big12, Clemson with ACC, etc.

I think with NIL and other changes, the sport is starting to get away from that and obtain more parody again.
 
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volbound1700 said:
but keep in mind that Alabama has held the #1 ranking every season except for 2007 in that run, won multiple national titles, and has been pretty much in the mix every season since 2009. The entire SEC and the rest of the Nation, in general, have been dominated by Alabama.

Auburn is 5-10 against Saban
Arkansas is 0-16
Florida is 1-8
Georgia is 2-7
Kentucky is 0-5
LSU is 4-12
Ole Miss is 2-13
Mississippi State is 1-14
Missouri is 0-4
South Carolina is 1-2
Texas A&M is 2-9
Vanderbilt is 0-4

So it isn't like Tennessee is the only team to have severely struggled against Saban.
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Only us and Arkansas are 0 for 16 though, that's pretty brutal.
 
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volbound1700 said:
but keep in mind that Alabama has held the #1 ranking every season except for 2007 in that run, won multiple national titles, and has been pretty much in the mix every season since 2009. The entire SEC and the rest of the Nation, in general, have been dominated by Alabama.

Auburn is 5-10 against Saban
Arkansas is 0-16
Florida is 1-8
Georgia is 2-7
Kentucky is 0-5
LSU is 4-12
Ole Miss is 2-13
Mississippi State is 1-14
Missouri is 0-4
South Carolina is 1-2
Texas A&M is 2-9
Vanderbilt is 0-4

So it isn't like Tennessee is the only team to have severely struggled against Saban.
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Every team that has played them multiple times over the last 15 or so years, except Clemson I guess, has severely struggled against them. I think that misses the point though.

Among teams that play them every year, Tennessee is a much stronger program historically than Arkansas, Ole Miss, Miss St, and A&M, yet all of those schools except Arky have managed to beat them at least once. Auburn's 5-10 mark against Saban, especially given their extremely inconsistent program over the last 15 years, is actually impressive. I am tempted to say Miss St's win over them doesn't really count because it was in Saban's first year, but then again, we didn't beat Alabama that year.

The last 15 years have been the best in Alabama's history and the worst in Tennessee's history, but you think sheer luck/chance would figure that we would have beaten them at least once over that timeframe. I don't know what is worse...the fact that we've lost 15 in a row to them or the fact that only two (two!) of the games have even been close.
 
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05_never_again said:
Every team that has played them multiple times over the last 15 or so years, except Clemson I guess, has severely struggled against them. I think that misses the point though.

Among teams that play them every year, Tennessee is a much stronger program historically than Arkansas, Ole Miss, Miss St, and A&M, yet all of those schools except Arky have managed to beat them at least once. Auburn's 5-10 mark against Saban, especially given their extremely inconsistent program over the last 15 years, is actually impressive. I am tempted to say Miss St's win over them doesn't really count because it was in Saban's first year, but then again, we didn't beat Alabama that year.

The last 15 years have been the best in Alabama's history and the worst in Tennessee's history, but you think sheer luck/chance would figure that we would have beaten them at least once over that timeframe. I don't know what is worse...the fact that we've lost 15 in a row to them or the fact that only two (two!) of the games have even been close.
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We probably should have beaten them with Josh Dobbs. Butch Jones just did not develop our line play enough to make us competitive against them. That would be a worry for Saturday. Can our OL and DL stand up to Alabama?
 
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05_never_again said:
Every team that has played them multiple times over the last 15 or so years, except Clemson I guess, has severely struggled against them. I think that misses the point though.

Among teams that play them every year, Tennessee is a much stronger program historically than Arkansas, Ole Miss, Miss St, and A&M, yet all of those schools except Arky have managed to beat them at least once. Auburn's 5-10 mark against Saban, especially given their extremely inconsistent program over the last 15 years, is actually impressive. I am tempted to say Miss St's win over them doesn't really count because it was in Saban's first year, but then again, we didn't beat Alabama that year.

The last 15 years have been the best in Alabama's history and the worst in Tennessee's history, but you think sheer luck/chance would figure that we would have beaten them at least once over that timeframe. I don't know what is worse...the fact that we've lost 15 in a row to them or the fact that only two (two!) of the games have even been close.
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UGA has lost at least 3 games to Saban in the most excruciating fashion possible, in true UGA style, lol. Two SEC championship games and a national championship game.
 
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05_never_again said:
Every team that has played them multiple times over the last 15 or so years, except Clemson I guess, has severely struggled against them. I think that misses the point though.

Among teams that play them every year, Tennessee is a much stronger program historically than Arkansas, Ole Miss, Miss St, and A&M, yet all of those schools except Arky have managed to beat them at least once. Auburn's 5-10 mark against Saban, especially given their extremely inconsistent program over the last 15 years, is actually impressive. I am tempted to say Miss St's win over them doesn't really count because it was in Saban's first year, but then again, we didn't beat Alabama that year.

The last 15 years have been the best in Alabama's history and the worst in Tennessee's history, but you think sheer luck/chance would figure that we would have beaten them at least once over that timeframe. I don't know what is worse...the fact that we've lost 15 in a row to them or the fact that only two (two!) of the games have even been close.
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If it makes you feel better, Florida's win over Alabama came in 2008 with Tim Tebow in Atlanta and until just this past season, Georgia's only win over Alabama was in 2007.

Florida and Georgia haven't necessarily been competitive against Alabama either when they have played Alabama on the field.

It seems like most years you literally need to have a top 5 team or get overlooked (which I think Alabama did with Ole Miss) to beat them.

Ole Miss is the only team, interestingly, to beat Saban back to back years while he has coached Alabama.
 
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volbound1700 said:
If it makes you feel better, Florida's win over Alabama came in 2008 with Tim Tebow in Atlanta and until just this past season, Georgia's only win over Alabama was in 2007.

Florida and Georgia haven't necessarily been competitive against Alabama either when they have played Alabama on the field.

It seems like most years you literally need to have a top 5 team or get overlooked (which I think Alabama did with Ole Miss) to beat them.

Ole Miss is the only team, interestingly, to beat Saban back to back years while he has coached Alabama.
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Yeah - I mean there's no shame in struggling with beating Alabama. 0-15 though, for a program like Tennessee, is still worse than you'd think. And not only is it 15 in a row, but we only had a shot at winning only 2 of those 15 games. It isn't like we've lost a bunch of nailbiters. That's still bad, I don't care how good they are - and it is more of a reflection of how bad we've been more than how good they've been.

Unless I'm missing someone, the only team that faced Alabama more often than only in one-off games over the last 15 years that has not seriously struggled with them is Clemson. They are 2-2 against Alabama since 2016.
 
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The problem is TN has only been seriously competitive in 2 of the last 15 games, 2009 and 2015. Hard to call it a true rivalry anymore when the games are so lopsided.

The last 5 years have been exceptionally brutal getting outscored 238-82.

It is past time to start putting some fear into these guys again.
 
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