The Official Tennessee vs. Arkansas State Game Thread, 12:00pm ET, SEC Network

[deaconkane]

Quick predicition for next week:

Oklahoma 42
Tennessee 20

So we cover the spread? Lol...

 

[DEFENDTHISHOUSE]

I'm shocked a lot of you have made it through the last 5 years of UT football.

 

[rach83]

Wolf, Pearson injury updates? This is far more important than harping on an ugly win. Football is ebb and flow, be hard to play your best game at noon six days later. Hopefully we saved our best for Oklahoma.

 

[Sandvol]

I'll be curious to see the spread for next week. It probably went up after today.

 

[Volteacher]

So we cover the spread? Lol...

LOL you think it will be 20+?

 

[Sandvol]

I'm shocked a lot of you have made it through the last 5 years of UT football.

You mean it wasn't hard on you? Tell us your secret.

 

[Volteacher]

Kind of a mixed bag today. Honestly it's the perfect type of game to prepare you for the conference schedule, it didn't cost us a loss, Butch gets to jerk a knot in a few @#$, and we move on.

EDIT: AAAAANNNNDDDDD now we get to watch Ole Miss beat the living @#$# out of Vandy!!

It was make the day SO much better if Ole Miss won 38-14 or worse put them in the hole 0-2

 

[Freak]

later guys. I'm out.

Hope for a better game next week! Go VOLS!

Don't hold your breath.

Enjoy the win, man. It wasn't the prettiest but it's a W. We're 2-0.

 

[DEFENDTHISHOUSE]

You mean it wasn't hard on you? Tell us your secret.

Oh it was bad, but you have to keep everything in perspective.
This team has a tremendous upside, unlike many of the other teams if the past few years. Plus, this team plays together. It's gonna be an exciting next few years.

 

[Fijivol72]

I am Butch Jones biggest fan but when you play prevent like the second half people get hurt. IMHO he needs a lesson in going for the jugular! I know he was working on our run game but 15 runs in a row with the defense stacked for it is over the top. We score once and shut it down? I call be. Doesn't help that the spread was 17.

 

[jhcrane14]

I just want an injury update.

 

[Spartacavolus]

I just want an injury update.

lower back sore from sitting too much today and a little dehydrated from whatever that was that somebody just gave me but otherwise, I'm gtg

 

[BruiserVol]

Man Florida's stadium looks terrible on tv. Empty gaps all over the place and a huge empty spot here an there.

 

[Ned Ray McWorkher]

You mean it wasn't hard on you? Tell your secret.

No secret. There is being a Tennessee fan, which is great all of the time.

Then, there is what's known as being a fan of winning. Which is great only when your team is winning.

A lot of fans of winning have been masquerading as Vol fans because Tennessee had been winning a bunch of games. The last 5 years have exposed them for whom they really are.

 

[DEFENDTHISHOUSE]

No secret. There is being a Tennessee fan, which is great all of the time.

Then, there is what's known as being a fan of winning. Which is great only when your team is winning.

A lot of fans of winning have been masquerading as Vol fans because Tennessee had been winning a bunch of games. The last 5 years have exposed them for whom they really are.

Exactly.

 

[Wezcoast]

Maybe we need to write every starting freshman's name down at the beginning of each game to temper our expectations of this team. We still won by more than two TDs against solid competition. It was never gonna be fun all year.

 

[GreyhoundMan]

We're one-third of the way to a bowl. I'd like to see us a little farther along progress-wise but I thought ASU was a decent team. We needed the win. We got the win. At this point I will take it and smile.

 

[FLVOL_79]

I literally saw NO high snaps like last game, which was plagued with them (only 1 got away).

I see the team progressing and its good.

 

[FLVOL_79]

We played 2 teams that went 8-5 and 9-5 the year prior..both going to bowl games with ASU winning theirs.. We went up a lot better competition than other SEC teams.

Florida is playing Eastern Michigan..they went 2-10
TA&M is playing Lamar...5-6
Vandy lost to Temple who went 2-10 in 2013..
etc..etc..

 

[FLVOL_79]

I'm no football expert but I have this feeling UT just played the two most mobile QB's they will see this year..

 

[Hyperion]

I don't get the concern. If you had said before the season the Vols would win by 31 and 15, is there anyone who wouldn't have taken that?

 

[mpfvol]

I'm no football expert but I have this feeling UT just played the two most mobile QB's they will see this year..

UF has Driskel back he runs pretty well.

 

[deaconkane]

We played 2 teams that went 8-5 and 9-5 the year prior..both going to bowl games with ASU winning theirs.. We went up a lot better competition than other SEC teams.

Florida is playing Eastern Michigan..they went 2-10
TA&M is playing Lamar...5-6
Vandy lost to Temple who went 2-10 in 2013..
etc..etc..

We just played a team that recruits almost top 100 and our starters were in at the end of the game. Also those games are already over... With 5 min to go in the 1st qtr..

 

[Kurtastrophe]

We just played a team that recruits almost top 100 and our starters were in at the end of the game. Also those games are already over... With 5 min to go in the 1st qtr..

If you were honestly nervous during today's game, take some of this:

 

[VFL34]

They got a win. They have things to workout on the run game. There were holes that the backs missed on cut backs.....with that being said, these players had Oklahoma in the back of their minds. I know that for a fact.