Tennessee -28 seems a little much.....

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SWOvol said:
We beat Vandy 56-0 last year with a poor game from Joe. I think Vandy is much better than this Virginia team.
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in the rain with out passing game pretty much neutered. I point this out because they are saying in their prediction that because Milton has a bad game and they make TN 1 dimensional (running) we lose.. when this happened last we ran for 362 and 6 td's. The problem with Milton having a bad day is even in that case our passing game is always a threat and because of the wide splits if you sell out on the pass you get roasted in the run game.
 
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I think it's more likely to be anywhere from 10-21 pts. 1st game of the year. Still a lot to be figured out.
 
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-28 is nothing but an invitation to get backdoored in the fourth quarter by a garbage time TD given up by the 2nd unit defense.

No thanks....Regardless of who is playing lol
 
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NoogaVol423 said:
When have we seen "really bad" from Joe Milton? Other than some overthrows against Pitt in his 1st game? Give me a break. Be more positive and supportive of JM. He smoked Clemson with the same WR's we are putting out there in Nashville. We should ROLL Virginia. Cheer up. lol
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Really bad Joe Milton lost his starting job to an unknown Hendon Hooker, whom was an afterthought at the time. Really bad Joe Milton overthrows the hell out of receivers and throws 100 mph fastball on quick slants. I think he is much improved and is going to have a great year. However, Im going to need him to show me against teams not named Vanderbilt and a Clemson team without top line defensive starters and that really didnt have much of an interest in playing in the Orange Bowl.
 
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The majority of you early 20 somethings on here that haven't ever experienced success as a Tennessee fan really need to take a step back and understand that teams are allowed to get better from year to year. I understand your stats about how bad Virginia was last year and how good Tennessee was last year, but guess what, that was last year. I see a 38-13 type of game and Ill be damn happy with it.
 
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DaytonLawVol said:
Really bad Joe Milton lost his starting job to an unknown Hendon Hooker, whom was an afterthought at the time. Really bad Joe Milton overthrows the hell out of receivers and throws 100 mph fastball on quick slants. I think he is much improved and is going to have a great year. However, Im going to need him to show me against teams not named Vanderbilt and a Clemson team without top line defensive starters and that really didnt have much of an interest in playing in the Orange Bowl.
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Lol, Milton was also playing without starters on our offense against Clemson, so that point doesn't hold water.

Milton got injured, that's how he lost the job. what did you expect the coaches to do, keep Milton in there with him injured? Milton actually had a better QBR against Pitt in 2021 than Hooker did when "he lost his job". https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401282066

Milton also didn't join the team until summer camp and didn't have a ton of time with the system, no one did in 2021, its was brand new. Its not an equal comparison to look at Bowling Green/Pitt 2021 Joe Milton and 2023 Joe Milton. No real reason to assume he would stay the same and not improve, especially since we saw it with our own eyes at the end of last year.
 
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OrngeJuiceJones said:
if we win by 10 or so something is very wrong. Even 20. This isnt Butch or Pruitt man. Battered Vol Syndrome?
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I just realize we have some areas of unknown that can go either way and betting on beating any P5 school by 28 in week 1 is not a smart move. It's football. Anything can happen. I think it'll be closer than expected.
 
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DaytonLawVol said:
New starting QB that we have seen really good from and really bad from in the past.
Offensive line changes/injuries.
A mostly new group of starting wide receivers.
A neutral field (Nashville...but still)

Virginia is a Power 5 team, albeit a pretty bad one. The spread is a full 4 touchdowns?!

Give me the 28 points.
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Good luck with that
 
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Im not looking for much of a game...More like a scrimmage. Lets see what we got and what needs help. Vegas loves attention, we are out with the dub.....Football aint a circus despite the world around us!
 
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DaytonLawVol said:
New starting QB that we have seen really good from and really bad from in the past.
Offensive line changes/injuries.
A mostly new group of starting wide receivers.
A neutral field (Nashville...but still)

Virginia is a Power 5 team, albeit a pretty bad one. The spread is a full 4 touchdowns?!

Give me the 28 points.
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If it was game 2 or 3 I'd definitely take the Vols. As they say every year, the biggest improvements a team makes is between the 1st game and the 2nd. On the flipside, turnovers, quick or late scores, letting the 2nd team offense throw it till the games over can all run scores up. I personally wouldn't touch it either way. VA could score late on our backups and get it under 28 or Nico could be throwing TD's with 5-7 minutes left. Exactly why the 1st weekend is the hardest to bet. We could win by 50 or by 24, neither would surprise me.
 
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knox-townVOL said:
Y'all need to realize that the team that waxed Clemson in the Orange Bowl was basically the 2023 team. We already know how good this team is, and it's pretty dang good.
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What happened last year has very little to do with this year's team. And let's not forget, we didn't dominate Clemson. The score didn't tell the whole story. They had a True FR QB making his 2nd career start. He drove the ball up and down the field on us until they got inside the 25-30. If their all world kicker makes those FG's it's a 5-7 pt game. Just like if Dabo's dumba$$ son had pitched that 4th down stop we got on them. If he pitches the ball, it's 7-0 Clemson. Everything went right for us and everything went bad for Clemson. Not to mention with 9 minutes left to go, we were only up 21-14. They had 483 yards of offense to our 375. It wasn't like they got some late garbage yards or points. Don't believe anyone would question that from the 20 to the 20 they went up and down the field on us. Difference was we had an experienced QB that got us in the end zone when we got in the red zone. They had an 18 yr old making his 2nd start and not very much game action before their final 2 games. The win looks great and I'm glad we got it, but we can't act like we dominated them from start to finish. We definitely Did Not. Like us offensively, they were missing a bunch on players on Defense. We had 375 total yards, the majority of our games we had 375 total yards before Halftime. They also turned the ball over and we didn't.

I'm highly doubting this years offense will be anywhere close to last year's. Don't see us putting up the passing numbers every game that Hendon put up. I hope like hell I'm wrong. This team will probably run it more and hope to hell our defense has improved just a little bit. And who, if anyone becomes this years Hyatt. Thornton, White, Keyton or Bru?
 
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SWOvol said:
We beat Vandy 56-0 last year with a poor game from Joe. I think Vandy is much better than this Virginia team.
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That was also after an almost complete season. In Week , teams tend to be a little rusty. They haven't played a game in 9 months. Not to mention we have a new OC and it's going to take a game or 2 for Heup and Hazle to get into a rhythm with each other. We easily could blow VA out by 60, but rust can even things out a little bit in week 1. Or we could be up 31 late and VA could score a garbage TD and we win by 24. I've seen it happen a bunch and have lost money betting because of late garbage scores. I'm personally staying away.
 
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saxvol said:
I watched Virgina play one game last year and they were bad, I mean really bad on offense, like a bad high school team level bad.
Their D seemed respectable, but it's hard to tell because the offense they were playing aginst was also really bad.
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You can't base teams off what they did last year. With the transfer portal, you can go from being bad to being much more competitive. Not gonna act like I know about VA, I don't think I even saw them play last season. Look at Tulane for instance. In 2021 they were 2-10, then in 2022 they went 12-2, won a New Years Six Bowl and finish ranked #9. Or TCU, who was 5-7 in 2021. Then in 2022 they went 13-2 and played in the CFP playoffs and Championship game. Point being, you can't base a team this year off what they did or didn't do the year prior . Us, TCU, Tulane are just a few examples.
 
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Vol865 said:
I think that works in their favor. Everyone thinks they're good when they're 0-0
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I remember that happening when we ran into the buzz saw that was Oregon back in the day early in the season. We got trounced badly. Same will happen to Virginia, and Elliot isn't a good head coach.
 
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jasonvol18 said:
You can't base teams off what they did last year. With the transfer portal, you can go from being bad to being much more competitive. Not gonna act like I know about VA, I don't think I even saw them play last season. Look at Tulane for instance. In 2021 they were 2-10, then in 2022 they went 12-2, won a New Years Six Bowl and finish ranked #9. Or TCU, who was 5-7 in 2021. Then in 2022 they went 13-2 and played in the CFP playoffs and Championship game. Point being, you can't base a team this year off what they did or didn't do the year prior . Us, TCU, Tulane are just a few examples.
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Virginia doesn't have the talent to keep pace with us. It's that simple. Tennessee would have to turn it over 5 or 6 times to make this competitive, and Joe Milton hasn't thrown a single interception in game play at Tennessee....I don't even think he has thrown one in practice this fall camp.
 
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norrislakevol said:
I remember that happening when we ran into the buzz saw that was Oregon back in the day early in the season. We got trounced badly. Same will happen to Virginia, and Elliot isn't a good head coach.
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Hope so but I'm not going to expect it and just be happy if it happens
 
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