Tennessee has no Rival

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BowlBrother85 said:
Can't you have more than one rival?

Auburn and Georgia are definitely rivals. Florida and Georgia are rivals as well. Ditto for Alabama and Tennessee. When both teams are good, Bama and Tennessee is as intense a rivalry as there is.
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Most teams do. Just in the SEC, you have the following (even being conservative)

Alabama: Auburn, LSU, and Tennessee
Auburn: Alabama, Georgia, and LSU
Arkansas: Texas, Texas A&M, and LSU
Florida: FSU, Miami, Georgia, LSU, and Tennessee
Georgia: Georgia Tech, Florida, and South Carolina
Kentucky: Louisville and Tennessee
LSU: Alabama, Auburn, Arkansas, Florida, Ole Miss, and Texas A&M
Missouri: Kansas
Ole Miss: Miss State, LSU, Vandy
Miss State: Ole Miss
South Carolina: Clemson and Georgia
Tennessee: Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, and Vandy
Texas A&M: Arkansas, LSU, and Texas
Vanderbilt: Ole Miss and Tennessee

You could also argue even more rivalries than I listed such as Georgia-Tennessee. I was being conservative.

Interestingly, I would say we are in a similar situation as LSU except LSU's in-state private school rival left the SEC (Tulane)
 
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volbound1700 said:
Most teams do. Just in the SEC, you have the following (even being conservative)

Alabama: Auburn, LSU, and Tennessee
Auburn: Alabama, Georgia, and LSU
Arkansas: Texas, Texas A&M, and LSU
Florida: FSU, Miami, Georgia, LSU, and Tennessee
Georgia: Georgia Tech, Florida, and South Carolina
Kentucky: Louisville and Tennessee
LSU: Alabama, Auburn, Arkansas, Florida, Ole Miss, and Texas A&M
Missouri: Kansas
Ole Miss: Miss State, LSU, Vandy
Miss State: Ole Miss
South Carolina: Clemson and Georgia
Tennessee: Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, and Vandy
Texas A&M: Arkansas, LSU, and Texas
Vanderbilt: Ole Miss and Tennessee

You could also argue even more rivalries than I listed such as Georgia-Tennessee. I was being conservative.

Interestingly, I would say we are in a similar situation as LSU except LSU's in-state private school rival left the SEC (Tulane)
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Everyone has rivals……
a Real Rival….IMO…..is both teams consider each other their biggest rival.
UT does not have that
LSU doesn’t
Vandy doesn’t
Arkansas doesn’t
 
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People often forget the rivalry we had with ole piss. If the sec had not totally jacked the second cross division rivalry and we had continued to play them like we should, we would have played them 97 times. A lot of hate goes to them. I might be wrong, but we are the only team with have 3 rivals that we have played over 100 time.
 
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Right now, it's UK. They utterly despise us to the point their recent domination of Florida is no consolation to beating the UT. Once in a while, I lurk at Wildcat Lair. It's common to see their disdain for the UT and what they call our Puke Orange. Annually, their Super Bowl is to beat the UT. For our part, I do believe we enjoy kicking them to the curb, and stomping them, especially at their own stadium. So, I'd call it rivalry. If Josh maintains the UT's rise, the 3rd Saturday of October will once again become a MUST WATCH game. But you know who will be our biggest rival of all going forth? The burnt orange bums SW of Tennessee. Book it.
 
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volbound1700 said:
I know many disagree but if you asked me who is Tennessee's top rival, I would point to Kentucky. Vanderbilt is probably #2 but Vandy really gets hurt by the fact they are NEVER good.

Kentucky struggles as well in Football but if you think all sports, they would be our top rival.

Alabama is probably our #2 in football and that works because we are their #2 after Auburn.

With Kentucky, we are their #1 most hated SEC opponent but they have Louisville.
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Alabama is not our #2 in football. They’re our #1. No one else is close.
 
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dieseldaddy said:
People often forget the rivalry we had with ole piss. If the sec had not totally jacked the second cross division rivalry and we had continued to play them like we should, we would have played them 97 times. A lot of hate goes to them. I might be wrong, but we are the only team with have 3 rivals that we have played over 100 time.
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I miss our annual clash with Auburn also. Also, I think FL-GA has now gone over 100 as well, so GA has 3 also (Auburn and Tech being the others).
 
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tennesseeduke said:
Series of runs
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It started with a 6-6 tie, bama win , UT win, bama ran of 7 wins, UT won 3 in a row. For some random reason I have never been able to figure out we didn't play from 1914 to 1928. I would imagine it had something to do with ww1 in the beginning. Nevertheless, I can go on forever about my favorite rivalry in all of sports. Some interesting tidbits I have found over time, UT most successful run in the series would be over a 15 year span between 1946 to 1960. During that time span, we were 10-2-3. Next would be the late 90s to 06. In a 10 time we are officially 9-1 ,but lost 6-3 in 05. The gumps if you take away their two crazy runs of 11 and 15 its a different rivalry at least by national standards. Two runs that long make us look bad. Still they have 26 of their 59 wins over us with 2 runs.I broke it down by decades once. The most surprising decade was 2000s. It was 5-5. The only split decade. I love this relationship we have. In reference to if we are a rivalry , the best best best way I have ever heard it described to me was by an 73 year old man who was a life long gump. Auburn is my rival. Yall are my enemy.
 
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northknoxvol said:
We have teams that share dislike for each other, but if you ask Alabama they will say Auburn, Florida will say Florida State. Wonder if we will ever start a series with someone who could become our rivals one day and play that game for a trophy or something. Who are your ideas for the team that would spark a rivalry with UT?
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Ask Kentucky and Vandy who they hate the most.
 
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volbound1700 said:
It isn't even just that Vanderbilt is bad, I think another issue that keeps them from being our #1 rival is their lack of a major fanbase (and I think that also ties into why they are bad).
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Up until the early 90’s they had a decent fan base and the hatred was real. Then their AD Paul Hoolihan and coach Dinardo pissed off the majority of them and they’ve yet to recover
 
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dieseldaddy said:
People often forget the rivalry we had with ole piss. If the sec had not totally jacked the second cross division rivalry and we had continued to play them like we should, we would have played them 97 times. A lot of hate goes to them. I might be wrong, but we are the only team with have 3 rivals that we have played over 100 time.
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I know I hate the SOBs
 
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