Vols stay at #7 in the playoff poll

[08Vol]

So they move Georgia behind Alabama because of head to head. If we lose this weekend I can guarantee they won’t take into account our head to head with the Gumps even though they should.

UGA has the best win of the season based on the committee’s current rankings.

 

[Vol4ever]

“With us” is very vague. Almost certainly purposefully.

We really have only beat one team. Bammer.

 

[Nico ee-ah-MAH-LAY-ah-va]

UGA has the best win of the season based on the committee’s current rankings.

Who has Texas beat to earn that rank? Nobody.

 

[Vol in Buckeye Land]

Yawn. They are blowing smoke at IU and BYU knowing full well both will drop like rocks with a loss.

 

[MemphisVolFan1978]

Alabama and Ole Miss win out they are in no matter what happens with us and Texas can lose and still stay in so that leaves GA/UT fighting for the last spot unless AM wins the SEC..

It’s ridiculous that Alabama will get in over us if we lose to Georgia and beat Vanderbilt. We would have the same record and would have beaten them head to head and beaten the other team that beat them. When we beat Alabama the narrative was that they weren’t as good as everybody thought, but now everybody is back in the bandwagon. Of course if we beat Georgia the narrative will be about how Georgia wasn’t really very good to begin with.

 

[OrangeCola]

We have to win Saturday. We won't get in at 10-2 without a lot of help

 

[Dobbs 4 Heisman]

Yawn. They are blowing smoke at IU and BYU knowing full well both will drop like rocks with a loss.

I don't know about that. They're setting them up to still make it even with a loss given how high they are right now. Indiana would need to get blown out to fall out of the top 12. I think this committee is determined to get 4 Big 10 teams in and to screw the SEC with only 3 spots. Greg Sankey should not have allowed so much Big 10 representation on this committee.

 

[MemphisVolFan1978]

I don't understand BYU and Indiana. We would clean their clock.

It doesn’t make sense that they would jump us. If the playoff committee thought we were better than them in the first playoff ranking what happened this past weekend to change that? We won more handily than either of them with our backup quarterback playing in the second half.

 

[Eastknox865]

“With us” is very vague. Almost certainly purposefully.

Let me put it like this. What i do know is im not about to stress myself out about who plays. Win the game

 

[VolArmy74]

Penn State, Texas, BYU, and Indiana have 0 quality wins between them.

 

[VolCalls]

I don't understand BYU and Indiana. We would clean their clock.

Just like we did Florida?

 

[VolCalls]

Penn State, Texas, BYU, and Indiana have 0 quality wins between them.

And zero bad losses.

 

[VolCalls]

Except with us, our win over Bama doesn’t seem to be carrying much weight at all. Ohio state and Tennessee are the only two 1 loss teams with a top 10 win. They are #2 while we are #7.

Because they lost to the #1 team in the nation and we lost to a 5-4 also-ran.

 

[508mikey]

Penn State, Texas, BYU, and Indiana have 0 quality wins between them.

heck PSU fans even want Franklin gone

 

[TrueOrange]

Dude, UGA was 3rd then dropped 9 spots to 12 and out. They have the best win of the season and their 2 losses are to #10 and #11 on the road. Compare that to the Vols if we lose to UGA. We will have a worse loss and a lower ranked top win. Doesn’t matter if we are ranked 5th or 7th, if we lose they will drop us at least 8 spots.

Also outside of that top win, the rest of Tennessee's resume at this point is unfortunately...not great. There's a fair chance that 6-6 Vanderbilt might end up being Tennessee's third strongest game/opponent in the regular season (and if UT loses to UGA, then 6-6 Vanderbilt might very well end up being up there as UT's second best win / strongest opponent won for the year...)

 

[Eastknox865]

We can complain all we want. The honest truth is don't lose to Arkansas and you're not in this position. Beat Georgia and you have nothing to worry about. Ladies and gentlemen stop the crying.

 

[deatojl]

Because they lost to the #1 team in the nation and we lost to a 5-4 also-ran.

I don’t have an issue with Ohio St. being above us. My issue is with the other four teams in between.

 

[deatojl]

And zero bad losses.

And our bad loss is to a team that is as good or better than any team any of them have beaten.

 

[Vol in Buckeye Land]

Mildly off topic but worth discussing imo. Many of us have heard B1G fans always say SEC teams refuse to play up north in November. This Michigan man chair person for playoffs committee doesn't even seem to be trying to hide the fact they are going to try and place several B1G teams home playoff games in December making SEC teams play in cold elements to definitely make an impact.

And which SEC team with a shot at the playoff has the coldest weather? Upper South ftw.

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

BYU and Indiana jumped us

So?

 

[Volbrando]

They pretty much pushed UGA out after that loss to Ole Miss.

So they can put us out and Bama and Ole Miss above us if we lose to Georgia

 

[Other_Guy]

Random thought but is anyone else depressed at the thought that if Tenn loses and S Car wins, they'll only be separated by 1 win?

 

[Johnnyreb#VFL]

Our win over Bama is equal to OM win over UGA.

Right so losses to Arkansas andGeorgia are surely better than losses to Kentucky and LSU (and losses to Georgia and Vandy) which means we should still be ahead of ole Miss and Bama if we lose(which is not gonna happen)

 

[temptn]

If we win Saturday and lose the SEC championship, they will still leave us out. No win situation.

 

[volfan102455]

Those fans who support the narrative that Tennessee is not worthy are our worst enemy. We need to be more like the fans of other teams who sing their praises and argue for them, but we unfortunately have fans with other intentions - they don't like this coach or that coach or this player or that player and want to see them gone so they find anything they can to put down the team.

Either get behind this team or find you another one please.