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jordan4vols said:
Starting to feel better about the game especially looking at UGA schedule and I’ll explain why:

1) We’ve heard a million times about how great UGA’s defense is. Here’s where opponents factor in. They have feasted on bottom dwellers Vandy, SC, and Missouri, and an Auburn team that got blown out by Penn St at home. Those 4 teams are quite possibly the 4 worst teams in the entire league. I dare say we would have similar statistics if we had faced those teams as well.

2) In addition to the 4 bottom dwellers they have feasted on Samford and Kent St as well. Florida and Oregon are the two teams they have played with a pulse. Oregon is playing better now. Florida is playing worse than when we played them. People point to us beating UF “by 5”. One stop in the 4th and we beat them by 17.

So we have played the much harder schedule. LSU and Alabama are obviously night and day different than SC, Vandy, and Auburn.

Georgia has not faced an offense close to what we can do. Tillman adds so much. I saw some posts about Hyatt running free against KY on the first td because the safety didn’t get deep. Well, if he goes deep, Tillman is running a post with inside leverage already on the db and nobody in the middle of the field. The safety had to choose. Hooker made them pay.

I feel like the more I look at it the more I think we win by 7 or more Saturday night. Run defense will lead the way.
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Here is the other big factor that no one is talking about much… Heupel mentioned it last night that we are the healthiest we have been all year. He and his staff having done another incredible job of managing this roster through a difficult portion of the schedule and being able to game plan to still win in the face of injuries. Now we are very healthy just in time for our biggest game of the year. I think we see another level that we reach on Saturday. We are going to start fast again, and Georgia is not going to know what hit them.
 
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This article is great

'It's hell to stop': Tennessee's offense, in the eyes of those who run it and try to defend it

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Baylor defensive coordinator Phil Bennett saw Alabama receivers coach Billy Napier walk into the high school in Shreveport, La.. He had an immediate question: “Is Nick here?”

Nick Saban was, in a car in the parking lot. And he wanted to talk to Bennett, a friend since they were running Big Ten defenses in the 1980s — Bennett at Purdue, Saban at Michigan State. It was early 2015, checking-on-recruits season, but Saban had also been thinking about Baylor’s field-stretching, hyper-pacing, record-breaking offense.

“He wanted to get together to talk about it,” Bennett recalled. “Nick and I are a lot alike in the things we do, the matchups we look for, and he wanted some insight, some ideas on how to stop it. He told me, ‘It hasn’t made it all the way to me yet. But I know what’s coming.’

“Isn’t that funny?”

Bennett is now the defensive coordinator at North Texas, and he was preparing for Western Kentucky and a similar offensive style when he spoke on the phone last week. He still found time amid his busy schedule to watch the complete tape of the moment the Baylor offense — the forefather of the offense Josh Heupel and Tennessee now run — truly made it all the way to Saban.

And yes, he found that funny as well, though Saban remains a friend and a comrade-in-defense.

“I mean, Tennessee just did an unbelievable job of creating matchups, getting Alabama out of position, out of the box,” Bennett said of UT’s sport-shaking 52-49 win, which has the No. 1 Vols in the national title hunt entering Saturday’s epic at No. 3 Georgia. “I laugh, I watched that and I told people, ‘Well, the Big 12 has finally made it to the SEC.’ One time (at Baylor) we beat TCU 61-58, people would make fun of us, say we had terrible defenses. Yeah, what was the score the other day? That’s the reality of this offense. It’s hell to stop.”
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His offense, often called the “veer and shoot” (though there isn’t much veer in it), is what Heupel has been running since after he was fired by Stoops as Oklahoma’s offensive coordinator in 2015. Basically.

“There’s portions of that — there’s also portions of what I did with Mike Leach as a player,” Heupel told The Athletic. “There’s portions of a little bit of everything. We evolve and change all the time. I mean, we’ve been different with every quarterback we have.”

Leach sees the same thing, saying Heupel “has always dabbled in (the Air Raid) and used some of the principles, but the offense he has now is a combination of things.”
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The Tennessee offense, which is studied weekly and closely by Dave McGinnis for a Nashville radio show he does on the Vols, reminds him of something else. McGinnis, a longtime pro and college coach who was the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals from 2000 through 2003, gets flashbacks to the late 1980s when he was linebackers coach for the Chicago Bears.

“I’ve been dealing with this stuff since Mouse Davis,” McGinnis said of the man who brought the run and shoot offense to the NFL’s Detroit Lions, a scheme with four wide receivers out on every play, adjusting to coverage on the fly while Barry Sanders found open space as a runner.
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The Tennessee offense looks most like the Briles offense with receivers split extremely wide, a relentless tempo that keeps defenses from substituting, frequent vertical shots and a devotion to running the ball. But Heupel hiring Iowa State tight ends coach Alex Golesh to be his offensive coordinator at UCF — replacing Briles disciple and current Oklahoma OC Jeff Lebby — represented another shift. Golesh came with Heupel to Tennessee and has expanded the run game and added elements of burliness to help the Vols in short yardage and the red zone.

Golesh started studying the Baylor offense back when he was a grad assistant at Oklahoma State in 2008 and said he saw it change dramatically over several years.
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UT has outscored opponents 293 to 81 in the first quarter in Heupel’s two seasons, with a first-quarter scoring average of 13.95 points, tops in the nation.
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OGbabyaviVol said:
Here is the other big factor that no one is talking about much… Heupel mentioned it last night that we are the healthiest we have been all year. He and his staff having done another incredible job of managing this roster through a difficult portion of the schedule and being able to game plan to still win in the face of injuries. Now we are very healthy just in time for our biggest game of the year. I think we see another level that we reach on Saturday. We are going to start fast again, and Georgia is not going to know what hit them.
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Yes! we are the healthiest we have been all year and they are not. I really hope they try and play keep away with our offense. If they do, that stadium will be quiet before the 1st quarter ends. I may be out of my mind but I really don't see us losing a game this year, it is just our time.
 
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