USA Today Breakdown - No. 62: Tennessee

[YankeeVol]

Probably pretty accurate

 

[PineyBluff Vol]

Can't blame the arrow for the way we shot the bow last year. This will give a little incentive to these young men to prove them wrong. More bulletin board material, keep it coming!!!

 

[Catbone]

Hard to argue with that.

 

[VolFreakJosh]

Sounds pretty reasonable to me.

 

[Volador]

With all the hype about CBJ and the fact that we always field some excellent athletes at UT, I am going out on a limb to predict we finish 34th. Would love a higher ranking but not gonna set myself up for too lofty of an expectation as there are some very strong teams out there this year.

Any other BOLD predictions?? And we can resurface this thread come January.

 

[MyBloodRunnethOrange]

Sounds pretty accurate to me.
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[SCowlsVOL]

Pretty reasonable.

 

[chattavol420]

USA Today ranks the Vols #62 in college football ranks | wbir.com

UT in the "Dark Ages" or what? Here's to B/J leading the way,:toast:

It's fair based on our record last year but we have enough talent to be ranked considerable higher. If u go off just talent alone we should be in the top 25. However because we play in the sec virtually every opponent has equal or greater talent. If we were an acc team we would probably be ranked in the top 30 or so

 

[oskie_score]

61 teams ahead of Tennessee? This sounds accurate or reasonable? C'mon.

 

[The Ron Mexico]

61 teams ahead of Tennessee? This sounds accurate or reasonable? C'mon.

I do not think there are 61 teams with more talent than Tennessee. But there probably are 61 teams that could finish with a better record than Tennessee.

 

[tim]

Rankings outside the top 15-20 dont count anyway. Basically, the Tulsa's of the world play powder puff schedules and go 9-3 beating no one and losing the tough games on their schedule. See: Vandy 2012

 

[RockyTopRockin]

Fair assumption

 

[JohnnyBall]

Talent wise Id put them about 38-40..playing an SEC slate plus Oregon ..bout 50 if we are shooting for end of the season ranking.

 

[KnoxRealtorVOL]

61 teams ahead of Tennessee? This sounds accurate or reasonable? C'mon.

Not necessarily but the article itself was spot on

 

[beasley11]

I hate this!! You know what i hate even worse than this thou??? That its fairly freaking Accurate! lets hope CBJ can get us in the top 25 for more than a week this year!

 

[gnm53108]

Pretty good write up....but as a orange koolaid drinkin, card carrying, Woo yellin , VFL I gotta say his season prediction sux.

 

[Bluetic]

Pretty good write up....but as a orange koolaid drinkin, card carrying, Woo yellin , VFL I gotta say his season prediction sux.

yea, this is crap. You have a few bum years and a few bum coaches and all of a sudden we are compared to teams in 3rd world coferences. We will be back...

 

[VolBeef88]

yea, this is crap. You have a few bum years and a few bum coaches and all of a sudden we are compared to teams in 3rd world coferences. We will be back...

It maybe crap but it's earned crap.
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[lawgator1]

Seems reasonable and well informed, optimistic down the line. I think you have to take this year with a huge grain of salt. Jones will make some personnel decisions that at times seem to give you less of a chance to win, but probably don't make a huge difference in the short term, and he's is aiming to make you competitive in '14 or '15.

It is what it is.

 

[gnm53108]

It maybe crap but it's earned crap.
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And now it Dallas's crap.

 

[Bluetic]

And now it Dallas's crap.

Ha! Im a cowboy fan too! Ever feel like the light at the end of the tunnel is just the next on-coming train? I do think UT is nearing the tunnel's end though...GBO!

 

[gnm53108]

Ha! Im a cowboy fan too! Ever feel like the light at the end of the tunnel is just the next on-coming train? I do think UT is nearing the tunnel's end though...GBO!

Agree but its still alittle too soon for train anolagies.