Vols remain #7 in AP

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Orange931 said:
You know as well as I do that their schedule is much weaker than ours
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I absolutely do. That wasn't what I was saying. PSU is no more fraud than UT, and I hate PSU. There are a lot of imperfections in the year's top 10. Maybe a team like UT can play their way in and do some damage. Playing Ohio State and bearing them would be sweet.
 
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I think if Tennessee connects on three touchdowns and three field goals, they would’ve moved up.
 
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UTFranklinVol said:
OMFG please read the ****ing comments. All that I said was UT fans can't criticize Penn St for being one dimensional when UT is also very one dimensional. Get off my damn back!

I'm not criticizing our team I'm calling out the poor thought of others logic.

Tennessee is being viewed by those who make the decisions as having a very poor offense. It's not my opinion and I'm not tearing the team down it's just a fact. You can bring up total yards but total yards don't matter near as much as scoring points when you ought to.

It also doesn't help that the only team we beat that is impressive at all now is Bama.

Florida sucks, Oklahoma sucks, NC St sucks. These are NOT good looks for Tennessee and the reason why we are viewed with huge questions marks.

How Tennessee is being viewed by the polls is very understandable and only Tennessee can change that perception by stomping some teams. That's just the world we live in now.
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Had UF quarterback not pulled his hamstring they may have beaten Georgia. Florida isn’t as bad as you portray, now that they are on there 3rd strong quarterback they may truly struggle. But before Lanway went down Georgia was in a dog fight. Them are facts! GBO
 
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Woodlawn VOL said:
Have you seen Penn St offense????
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Have you seen UTs offense? Also UT is the only one with an $8M QB who was supposed to compete for the Heisman immediately so said the media.

If Tennessee beats Georgia then this won't be an argument anymore
 
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Woodlawn VOL said:
Had UF quarterback not pulled his hamstring they may have beaten Georgia. Florida isn’t as bad as you portray, now that they are on there 3rd strong quarterback they may truly struggle. But before Lanway went down Georgia was in a dog fight. Them are facts! GBO
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Florida was already going to fire their coach BEFORE UT played them, they suck now and with their remaining schedule they are most likely going to be a 5-7 team with a fired head coach finishing close to the bottom of the SEC. But tell yourself whatever you want because those will be the "facts"
 
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Woodlawn VOL said:
If you can’t tell the difference in talent your blind. We may not be clicking but they don’t have the talent on offense period! GBO
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Lol what? Talent don't mean crap if you don't execute. Nobody cares about your talent unless you win big.

Also, the more talent you have the higher the expectations are that you stomp other teams. The bigger the gap between expectations and reality the worse your ranking will be.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
They're literally our ticket to the playoffs right now. Why on earth would you want them to be lower?
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I can 💯 see a scenario where Bama wins in Death Valley and UT loses to Georgia badly and the committee let's Bama in and not UT.

Don't think that just because UT beat Bama that this will make them more attractive especially when Bama beat Georgia.

Never ever ever root for Bama.
 
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Woodlawn VOL said:
Had UF quarterback not pulled his hamstring they may have beaten Georgia. Florida isn’t as bad as you portray, now that they are on there 3rd strong quarterback they may truly struggle. But before Lanway went down Georgia was in a dog fight. Them are facts! GBO
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Agree - that was devastating for UF and UF still managed to stay in the game until that interception late in the fourth quarter.
 
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UTFranklinVol said:
I've definitely not heard anyone say UT is the scariest team in the SEC. What I've heard is that we went 3 straight games without scoring a 1st half point for the first time in decades and that UT only has a 67% chance of making the playoffs and they are out of the discussion if they don't beat Georgia.

People in the media praise our defense as they well should it's the best in the country but the offense can get this team beat and people are just waiting for it to happen to count UT out. UT just hasn't been impressive enough given our relatively (now) weak schedule. It's all hurting our chances.
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UTFranklinVol said:
Have you seen UTs offense? Also UT is the only one with an $8M QB who was supposed to compete for the Heisman immediately so said the media.

If Tennessee beats Georgia then this won't be an argument anymore
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I know we’re 7-1 and have a lot more potential to score than Penn St does. Why do you put money in it? He is a freshman and getting better, he played well last night he is improving. Had 2 drops been caught his stats would have been great. Everybody knows we have to clean up our problems on offense but we have been good enough to come back and put up 24 on Bama and 23 on Florida in the second half which I highly doubt Penn St could do. We also have a defense that hasn’t given up 20 points to a team all year, yeah there is another side to football that you have to factor in. I have no doubt our offense is going to come alive, but I will still be here after the month is over to talk about the Vols! Personally I think we match up with Georgia well, they have struggled with teams at times all year. Their Qb has been up and down like a yo-yo and there running game has been paltry and teams are starting to get to their QB. Ole Miss and Tennessee will be a formidable challenge for Georgia’s offensive line! GBO
 
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dieseldaddy said:
Just doing everything they can to keep jerk wagons in the playoffs. Buck Fama
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We need all of Volnation to Say “Roll Damn Tide” from now until the end of the season. The more they win the better we look. Maybe not take it that far, but we need Bama to win
 
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UGA lost to Bama and we beat Bama. If Bama losing is bad for us, it is also bad for UGA. As such I don't care if Bama loses and it will have no bearing whatsoever on us if we beat UGA.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
We need all of Volnation to Say “Roll Damn Tide” from now until the end of the season. The more they win the better we look. Maybe not take it that far, but we need Bama to win
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No we don't! We need Volnation to say "Go Vols" - win all the games because if we do that, Bama doesn't matter at all.
 
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The only reason to want Bama to win next week is so LSU will have that second loss in the conference race.
 
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volfan102455 said:
UGA lost to Bama and we beat Bama. If Bama losing is bad for us, it is also bad for UGA. As such I don't care if Bama loses and it will have no bearing whatsoever on us if we beat UGA.
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If Bama beats LSU and UT loses to Georgia then you will have two 2 loss teams and Bama will have wins over LSU and Georgia and UT will only have a victory over Bama. The committee will choose Bama 💯 book it.

People shouldn't be foolish to think that just because we beat Bama that they will consider that better than Bama beating LSU and Georgia.
 
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Kylo said:
How? They lost to Ohio State. Tennessee lost to garbage Arkansas.
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Tennessee 7-1/3-0 vs AP top25 /T-1 SEC
Penn St 7-1/1-1 vs AP top25/ T-2 BIG10

UT vs top 25 / 2 of 3 (NCST 24 at time of game and OU 15 at time of game are no longer ranked) Bama is currently 11
Penn St vs top 25 / only win Illinois, 19 at time of game, no longer ranked

UT best win against Alabama (7 at time of game 11 currently)
PSU best win against Illinois (19 at time of game NR currently)

UT loss @ Arkansas (NR)
Penn St loss home OSU (4)

Vols 20.5 in ESPN FPI
Penn St 19.0 in ESPN FPI

PSU has a slight advantage in SOR ranked 6; Vols are 8.
In SOS PSU is 28, Vols 33.
**In remaining SOS Vols are 13 PSU is 56.

**Vols will play 2 of 4 remaining games against AP top25 (UGA 2, Vandy 24)
PSU will play 0 AP top25 in their 4 remaining games.

I would rank Tennessee over Penn St. without hesitation using the data from the entire schedule played to date.
**I would also add the Vols have the ability to win their way up in the polls with their remaining schedule while PSU will need others to lose to move up.
 
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Proud Army Wife said:
Will someone please beat Indiana and BYU so their fans will pipe down. I’m sick of seeing them whine about not being ranked top 5 lol. Delusional.
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I do too but looking at BYU's schedule they will more than likely finish 12-0 and win the conference to be 13-0.

Indiana plays at OSU on 11/23. That will tell the tale either way. IU has not yet played any team ranked in the top 25.
 
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UTFranklinVol said:
If Bama beats LSU and UT loses to Georgia then you will have two 2 loss teams and Bama will have wins over LSU and Georgia and UT will only have a victory over Bama. The committee will choose Bama 💯 book it.

People shouldn't be foolish to think that just because we beat Bama that they will consider that better than Bama beating LSU and Georgia.
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And this is probably the last team on Bama's schedule that can beat them. Go Tigers!
 
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deatojl said:
Yet, somehow, Nico was 28/38 for 292 yards with three of those incompletions being dropped touchdown passes.
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While you’re correct, not everyone will see that. Our offense has been inept since playing cupcakes and we didn’t exactly thrash Kentucky at home. The committee won’t be looking at dropped passes, etc. We need a complete game against a complete team before we will be taken seriously. We’ve not had it yet.
 
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Ty4Vols said:
Tennessee 7-1/3-0 vs AP top25 /T-1 SEC
Penn St 7-1/1-1 vs AP top25/ T-2 BIG10

UT vs top 25 / 2 of 3 (NCST 24 at time of game and OU 15 at time of game are no longer ranked) Bama is currently 11
Penn St vs top 25 / only win Illinois, 19 at time of game, no longer ranked

UT best win against Alabama (7 at time of game 11 currently)
PSU best win against Illinois (19 at time of game NR currently)

UT loss @ Arkansas (NR)
Penn St loss home OSU (4)

Vols 20.5 in ESPN FPI
Penn St 19.0 in ESPN FPI

PSU has a slight advantage in SOR ranked 6; Vols are 8.
In SOS PSU is 28, Vols 33.
**In remaining SOS Vols are 13 PSU is 56.

**Vols will play 2 of 4 remaining games against AP top25 (UGA 2, Vandy 24)
PSU will play 0 AP top25 in their 4 remaining games.

I would rank Tennessee over Penn St. without hesitation using the data from the entire schedule played to date.
**I would also add the Vols have the ability to win their way up in the polls with their remaining schedule while PSU will need others to lose to move up.
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I would only say that UT has only beaten 1 current top 25 team. OU and NCSt it turns out are putrid and not worth their original rank just like Florida St.

With that said our win over Bama> PSU losing to OSU and if Tennessee beats Georgia then there is no question. But if Tennessee loses to Georgia and PSU wins out then we can't really complain if left out and PSU gets in. You have to win the games you have.
 
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UTFranklinVol said:
In spite of that very oddly chosen stance, Florida is 4-4, unranked and 12th in the SEC and they still have to play TX, LSU and Ole Miss so most likely a 5-7 football team who will almost certainly lose their head coach and not go to a bowl.
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If they have to go with the guy from Yale at QB, they may even lose to FSU.
 
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