The Official #9 Tennessee @ #8 Ohio State Game Thread, 8:00 PM ET, ABC/ESPN

[GAVol]

The Jackson guy trolling all week on Facebook set us up for a butt kicking. It's called bulletin board fodder.

Because locker rooms all over America are wallpapered with Facebook posts.

 

[Rocky-Top 10EC]

Will Howard is a punk!

 

[landscapingvol]

I've seen that crossing pattern several times tonight...over and over. And I've seen it from other teams... Georgia. No DB is even close enough to contest it.

Everyone can see it except Tim Banks, he must be playing Madden 24 instead of watching the game

 

[jim285pro]

Embarrassing effort. We look like a FBS team they paid to come and get your whooping

 

[cgrish]

Why does it seem that, when we have a bye week, we lose our intensity?

It doesn't seem like it. We do, we came out with no intensity at all. And we do most of the games. especially when we have 2 or more weeks to prepare.

 

[JMSqb11]

We are lucky to have Heupel but he needs to spend the offseason with a business mindset and make some changes to the staff that “friends”…..

 

[LieutenantNeyland]

This effort has been very surprising.

Seriously?

 

[BleedOrange81]

So pay it.

Don’t tell me tell Coach and the Haslems

 

[deezvols]

GG, see ya’ll next fall

 

[Vawlk Tuah]

That was OSU fans chanting that. Sarcastic pricks.

The way we have played, we deserve it. The **** our fans talk and that's the result when it blows up in your face

 

[DEFENDTHISHOUSE]

This one isn’t on the refs.

They’ve missed a couple of calls but no the refs are a non factor. This is a mismatch.

 

[Madscientistvol]

I used to enjoy TN football

As a kid I did. Now it feels too much like real life, lots of investment just to get hurt.

 

[NEO]

The Jackson guy trolling all week on Facebook set us up for a butt kicking. It's called bulletin board fodder.

No! JH did not have this team ready and has called a horrible game on both sides! He is not an elite coach. Golesh was why our offense was so good. Not him. He’s no better than Butch jones.

 

[MADISONGAVOL]

Will Howard is a punk!

No he's embarrassing us.

 

[Clad in Big Orange]

So what will we do? Stop under- recruiting the top half of the conference? Stop retaining under performing assistants? This is our ceiling. There won't be any wholesale changes and Spyre is getting out-spent by other collectives. I think the best thing we could do is bring in a analyst to manage the NIL budget.

Now way I'd throw this kind of money at a QB again. If go all in on the offensive line.

I have no clue, but I’m not making millions to be in charge of the program.

 

[Mid Tenn Vol]

It is embedded in this thread. Nearly 1/3 of the post seems to be whining about the refs.

The refs aren’t the problem. We our getting our asses beat in every facet.

 

[SlipKidVol]

I'm disappointed with the whole team...soft.

 

[Carl Pickens]

Dude, this has to be it. I absolutely refuse to believe our front line can't get home on them at all

There hasn’t been a holding call on either team all night

 

[patrick]

Our team seems quite a bit slower than Ohio State. Our defensive schemes have gone to hell. I thought Pearce was going to be a top draft pick. He sure has disappeared as the season has gone along. I thought the earlier games today had several teams that didn't deserve to be in the playoff. Add one more to that total.

Pearce is a 1st rounder - book it.

 

[orangerush]

Two weeks to prepare

 

[Volhoops]

Disagree.

Several teams in the 12 we could beat at Neyland.

But we are not playing at Neyland and the Championship game is not at Neyland

 

[LLcoolDave]

this beat up, walking mash unit of an OLINE for OSU is dominating our all world Dline

 

[Voljayton]

We look like we don't even belong in the CFP man. So hard to watch.

 

[Chad Powers]

I do honestly think we may have a coaching problem on some level. I also think our NIL isn’t on par with the level of talent this fanbase (including me) wants. We don’t have enough money. Our alumni is a fraction of OSU and Texas, by sheer numbers of student body enrollment. I feel like UT blew its wad with Nico and it really hasn’t panned out yet. I’m not sure it will. I haven’t seen much improvement. Improvement is there, but it’s meager over the course of this season.

 

[Cartervol]

We're soft under this coach..