Toss in #8 and #9. When's the last time so many in the Top 9 have fallen so late in the season? And most to teams they should have beaten fairly easily.
This weekend is why you don't lose your head over the loss to SC.
Criticize? Absolutely. It was a bad loss... the worst in Butch's tenure. But football is weird and bad teams beat better teams every week. No coach is immune to upsets and letdowns.
Would be nice to finish 11-1 and healthy. But we would still run into the buzzsaw that is Bama. No going is getting through Bama and to the playoffs from the SEC this year. Even a fully healthy Vols team.
Would be nice to finish 11-1 and healthy. But we would still run into the buzzsaw that is Bama. No going is getting through Bama and to the playoffs from the SEC this year. Even a fully healthy Vols team.
We might Crack top 25 now. Barely beating scrubs, UGA and UF turning out to be terrible teams, and getting blown out by Bama, and losing to USC is not a recipe for a top 25 ranking. We'll probably finish the year having beaten 0 ranked teams.