Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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IF gators beat OM and Texas beats A&M that leaves UT-Bama-UGA 6-2 conference wise
A&M at 6-2 but 9-3 overall and Texas at 7-1.
Who plays Texas for SEC Championship?
 
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cncchris33 said:
The final score would indicate that, but watching both games, you never thought Tennessee stood a legitimate chance in the 2nd half. Both were 2 TD margins, but UGA took the gas off in 2022 up 24-6 at HT, and then put the gas on after spotting a 10-pt lead, last night, outscoring Tennessee 31-7.

So, if the definition of competitive is that we didn't get beat by 4 TDs, then I guess you're right, but neither game was ever threatened in the 2nd half.
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Heupel needs to put aside his pride and get help…

Who cares that we scan score 60 points in one half vs Kent State, when it truly matters we can’t score anything in the 2nd half vs Georgia.

Georgia had trouble tackling in the open field. Why not bubble screens or jet sweep?
No play action off jet sweep.
 
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OGbabyaviVol said:
Which one? The one by 86 or 4? I think both may have been catches and fumbles. However, it is funny to me that they showed the replay once on both of them and that was it! It’s like they didn’t want the viewers to see that they were covering up things.
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They were both incomplete passes.
 
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GoodTimeVol said:
Some of those passes were just dimes though, I was very pissed at the DL and LB play though
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No, Beck played very well...absolutely. I'm not taking anything away from him. Best he's looked all year in games I've seen.

We got outschemed (Bobo v Banks) and our LBs got exposed for what they are, and have been all year; excellent against the run, but very suspect in coverage. It was the concern all offseason, but finally came home to roost in a game where the QB had all day to throw and they were forced to actually cover a TE or WR for any amount of time.
 
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beneVOLence said:
Coach Heupel has an issue with winning big games on the road. They seem to coach scared. Everyone knows you have to move Beck off his spot and he just sat back there reading books or running right passed us. Very disappointing. That Arkansas loss has killed our college playoff chances after a week off before it.
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If we win our last two games which next week, we better win and then Vandy won't be easy but we should win if we really are one of the top 12 teams, then we will be in. A few teams a head of us now that are not SEC are not better. Our SOS just went up but next week will hurt it. We need to play some better OOC teams even if they are not P4. However, we have an 83% chance per All State predictor IF we win the last two. Go take care of what you can and then let it fall where it may. Other SEC teams have losses against unranked teams and we only have 1 and they need one more win to be bowl eligible. I am a Gator fan next week.
 
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SonOfGodVolforlife said:
The game wasn’t threatened in the second half? We had the ball in Georgia territory driving with under 7 mins in the 4th to tie the game. Hell Georgia td that out then up 24-17 they got bailed out by the refs 3 times on that drive.. to say that game wasn’t competitive I’m not sure what you was watching.
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Again, you seem fixated on score and time. And also again, if that's your definition of threatened/competitive/close, then I'm not going to argue.

Your noting how UGA was bailed out by the refs (which I already noted) plays into my point. They outplayed us and got the benefit of every flag. At no point did I have confidence that we would threaten their lead. They had the momentum, the homefield advantage, and the advantage of every call made (or not made) going their way. We got outscored 31-7 to close the game.

So, yes, the score suggests that we were "in it", but I never believed that we had much of a chance after we had to punt on our first possession of the 2nd half. Everything went UGA's way from that point.
 
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drylo said:
“because UGA busted an assignment”… 😂

Really going to try to downplay Sampson running right through and by their defense by saying we only scored “because UGA busted an assignment”?

Want to say the same about how they only ever scored on us because we busted an assignment?

Give me a break. Regardless how you spin it, it was a close game that UGA could not have felt confident about winning until sometime under 5 mins to go.
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We had a couple of glaring mistakes in the 4th quarter last night. O their 2 TD passes, they took advantage of our lack of speeding coverage at safety and they had easy pickings when they run and threw slants and traps up the middle where our LB should have been. Those to position gave up a lot of yards, especially in the second half. I don't have much too say about our offense in the second half except that penalties stopped a couple of drives.
 
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LittleVol said:
Heupel needs to put aside his pride and get help…

Who cares that we scan score 60 points in one half vs Kent State, when it truly matters we can’t score anything in the 2nd half vs Georgia.

Georgia had trouble tackling in the open field. Why not bubble screens or jet sweep?
No play action off jet sweep.
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After we got the 10-0 lead, the offense completely changed. Really it did after the first scoring drive. It went into that super conservative mode we saw in the 2nd half vs Oklahoma where we just tried to play it safe and lean on our defense.

The 2023-24 version of the Tennessee offense is trash in games of consequence. No idea what has changed other that OC and QB.
 
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cncchris33 said:
No, Beck played very well...absolutely. I'm not taking anything away from him. Best he's looked all year in games I've seen.

We got outschemed (Bobo v Banks) and our LBs got exposed for what they are, and have been all year; excellent against the run, but very suspect in coverage. It was the concern all offseason, but finally came home to roost in a game where the QB had all day to throw and they were forced to actually cover a TE or WR for any amount of time.
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Yup. I wanted to get mad because will Brooks or Carter or telander was getting caught in coverage.. But really, we all know that's not their strength... And you do have to credit bobo for getting those matchups and their O line for protecting. My biggest coaching criticism is that banks found no answers to that, and we appeared to not really do much different to get pressure on Beck. We moved guys around the line, but there only time I remember actually bringing more than 5 was on the screen play they ran...

Anyway. The defense has been so good all year... Sucks that last night was such a problem. I think most all of us if there was a reason to have any confidence going in to a game against us UGA, it was because we could rely on the defense... Which probably explains the excessive criticism today.
 
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cncchris33 said:
After we got the 10-0 lead, the offense completely changed. Really it did after the first scoring drive. It went into that super conservative mode we saw in the 2nd half vs Oklahoma where we just tried to play it safe and lean on our defense.

The 2023-24 version of the Tennessee offense is trash in games of consequence. No idea what has changed other that OC and QB.
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Did it though? Big dropped passes,a few poor passes, penalties... There were opportunities in the second and 3rd qtr when we had the ball that we shot ourselves in the foot and killed good drives....I don't think the play calling was the problem... We left a lot on the field imo.
 
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The team that will keep us out is either Indiana or the next media darling that pops up in the next two weeks. The people in the media do not realize or choose to ignore the fact that the SEC in general is by far the toughest League out there. I would wager that 6 or 8 teams in the SEC could beat the majority of the teams being mentioned as contenders for the CFP. Let any of them play a SEC schedule and see how well they do.
 
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SpringBokVol said:
What are our scenarios to play in the sec championship game?
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We are out. I've tried most of the reasonable scenarios here and we can't get in. Most likely Bama versus Texas or TAMU.

You can try using this to see if you can find a way.

mred's SEC FB Standings Generator

Southeastern Conference Football Standings with Tiebreakers
bball.notnothing.net
 
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