Recruiting Football Talk VII

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Plove23 said:
Very new to the college scene, will we be playing in a bowl game? Or is it too early to say
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A program like Tennessee in the SEC is in at 6 wins, so we're pretty well locked in to a postseason appearance. Where is up in the air, but Nashville (Music City Bowl), Jacksonville (Gator Bowl), or Tampa (ReliaQuest Bowl) seem likeliest.

I did see a projection that had us in the Gator against Notre Dame. That'd be one worth going to.
 
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PlanetVolunteer said:
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You judge a program by its POTENTIAL. Since Neyland got here in 1926 the potential of this program has been the ability to win conference and national championships.

The only time we are not competing for championships is when we have had awful coaching. Neyland retired and we kept running an antiquated offense until Dickey got here (still had a couple great seasons in there like 1956 because WE ARE TENNESSEE) Dickey screwed us and Bill Battle let everything go to shambles. Johnny had to rebuild. He did. Fulmer won a title. We fired him and everything went back to crap.

What happens when we finally get another good coach? Ranked number one in year two. How? BECAUSE WE ARE TENNESSEE. Not a freaking "8-4" program.

I get you are just referencing data, but that's just an incomplete perspective, but since you want to go there.

Tennessee was 645-256 from 1926-2008 before the debacle that was the last 15 years.

You know who in the SEC had more wins in that time frame than we did?

NOBODY.

Not an 8-4 program.
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We are the 11th most winning team of all time. We lost a bad one last week but we will recover. The future is bright, nothing is easy! GBO
 
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Plove23 said:
Very new to the college scene, will we be playing in a bowl game? Or is it too early to say
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Yeah we're in. Trending Gator. Depending on what other teams in the conference do, and what other 8-4 ish teams do, could be Music City because they always want us


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The SEC will maintain its current bowl selection process in which the Citrus Bowl has the first selection of available SEC teams after any conference schools have qualified for the College Football Playoff, the Allstate Sugar Bowl or the Capital One Orange Bowl, after which the SEC assigns teams to a Pool of Six bowls.

The SEC Pool of Six consists of the ReliaQuest Bowl, TaxSlayer Gator Bowl, Transperfect Music City Bowl, TaxAct Texas Bowl and Autozone Liberty Bowl, as well as the SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl in 2022 and 2024, and the Duke's Mayo Bowl in 2021, 2023 and 2025. In consultation with SEC member institutions, as well as these six bowls, the conference will make assignments for the bowl games in the pool system. ESPN Events selects teams to participate in the TicketSmarter Birmingham and Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowls after the Pool of Six have been assigned.
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We will be in that pool of six.

Reliaquest is the new Outback Bowl and I don't think we'll get there.

TaxSlayer Gator Bowl (Jacksonville) is a likely destination

Music City Bowl (Nashville) is another likely spot

Texas and Liberty are usually for SEC West but this is also kind of a down year for the SEC. Birmingham is another one that we wont drop down to if we finish 8-4.

If we somehow upset UGA we need to redo this exercise
 
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ESPN has us in the Duke's Mayo Bowl or Music City Bowl

247 has us in the Music City

Action Network has us in the Gator Bowl

Athlon has us in the Gator Bowl

The Tennessean has us in the Gator Bowl


Have to take recent history into account. The conference likes to spread the teams/frequency out. But the bowls and host cities want the teams that travel the best and spend the most money.
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BigSteve09 said:
Yeah we're in. Trending Gator. Depending on what other teams in the conference do, and what other 8-4 ish teams do, could be Music City because they always want us


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We will be in that pool of six.

Reliaquest is the new Outback Bowl and I don't think we'll get there.

TaxSlayer Gator Bowl (Jacksonville) is a likely destination

Music City Bowl (Nashville) is another likely spot

Texas and Liberty are usually for SEC West but this is also kind of a down year for the SEC. Birmingham is another one that we wont drop down to if we finish 8-4.

If we somehow upset UGA we need to redo this exercise
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We can't call beating Georgia and upset , I'll be elated 😉
 
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