Stephen Gray
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Going into this season, that game in Columbia was one I circled as one that would be difficult to win. A lot of Vol fans gave me pushback, but I knew that the gap between these teams in terms of talent and depth wasn’t enough to safely mark it down as a win. Not that I’m smarter than anyone on here or anything, I’ve just seen this song and dance before. Unfortunately, I was right and USCjr played their best game of the season against us.
But guess what? Carolina, as a program, is still sorry. They’re still trash. They’re still junk. Two top 10 wins and they’re going to be playing in the Outback Bowl. So now, South Carolina fans are going to mark Tennessee down as a W going into next season because of their fluke win over us, even though they’ve only won at Neyland 3 times ever. But that isn’t going to happen. We’re going to run them off the field just like we did in 2021 and when 2024 rolls around, we’ll have a team with much better depth that can win in Columbia.
I agree. We are the better team even though they beat us. They were better that game, but are not the better team. They should never have done so, and only were able because we did not play as well as we were capable. Now we are not the better team because our guys are so much more talented than theirs. The talent level is not very different at all. Just at our best, all of the pieces together are better than theirs at their best. This is obviously all my opinion and very subjective.