We should never play Bama again

#52
#52
Alabama is THE ONE game I want to keep every year. Rotate the other teams every year, but keep that game.

I will always hate Bama more than any other team, but I will never not want us to play them.



I personally think we should be 6 and Bama should be 7, but...the committee (and our teams play against SC) screwed us on that.
 
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Im a fan of not playing the best teams always. It works for every other team. Only having to beat 1 maybe 2 teams with a pulse leaves you highly respected. See OSU,Michigan, Clemson and even UGA. Please spare me that the Big Ten, Pac12 or the ACC are good conferences. They are not. I certainly don't think we should play Bama every year while we are about to go to a 9 game conference schedule. I think we should play every team on a rotational basis only. If we do not do this we are going to get fked scheduling wise. Uga uf bama will continue to get the easier schedules while we face the gauntlet
 
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Starting in 2024, our annual games will consist of two traditional rivals and one newbie.

For us, we need to play Vandy and Kentucky as the traditional rivals.

Then, we can pick up Missouri as our newbie.

Those three games will create our cornerstone.
 
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My $.02… starts with a question.

Would folks rather have VOLS play lower tier SEC teams and get into the CFP (then loose) or beat our traditional rivals (Bama/UF) and only make it to NY6 bowl because of a hiccup?

Seems to me that the teams that have been really good for awhile (UGA/Bama) will likely remain in a good position to make the CFP (as result of sustained good coaching and recruiting). In other words, if VOLS can’t run the table against them right now in regular season (maybe 1 loss) we’d probably need a lot more breaks in the post-season to beat them in CFP for a national championship. Right now, playing both UGA and Bama makes it harder for VOLS to get to Atlanta - we’d still have to play a top SEC team before CFP. With eventual scrapping of divisions and expansion of CFP as some have pointed out, it probably won’t matter as much in future although we still may have to play one of them twice even after scrapping of divisions.

As for me, I think we may have made it to CFP finals but those victories over Bama, Gators and Tigers make up for getting left out. Like coaches say, gotta let go of disappointment (loss) and press forward and prepare/expect to win the next time.

Go VOLS!
 
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VOL89grad said:
My $.02… starts with a question.

Would folks rather have VOLS play lower tier SEC teams and get into the CFP (then loose) or beat our traditional rivals (Bama/UF) and only make it to NY6 bowl because of a hiccup?

Seems to me that the really good teams we play right now (UGA/Bama) will likely make be in position to make the CFP. In other words, if VOLS can’t run the table against them in regular season (maybe 1 loss), we’d probably need a lot more breaks in the post-season to beat them for a national championship. Right now, playing both UGA and Bama makes it harder for VOLS to get to Atlanta - with eventual scrapping of divisions and expansion of CFP as some have pointed out, it probably won’t matter as much in future.

Go VOLS!
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I vote for Option 1.

But, I have BVS
 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
We don't play Bama for the playoffs. We play Bama because we hate those SOBs and getting to beat them is a pleasure we've enjoyed more than any other football program.

One of the guys from my HS in TN went to play LB for Bear over Battle. I won't say I never spoke to him again, but it changed things.

CONSTANTLY here I see people (including me) bitch about how college football is changing, the portal sucks, NIL is ruining football, etc and then I see posts like these that want to voluntarily tear down traditions. I just don't get it. Whatever traditions we can keep, we should keep.
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I especially agree with the last sentence. Anyone remember panty raids or drinking beer at the Roman Room or ordering a Vol Burger and fries at Sam and Andy's or watching streakers on the Strip in 1974 or listening to one-man band, Bill Jenkins, in the late 80s? Where have all the good times gone?
 
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Rushin Orange Collusion said:
I especially agree with the last sentence. Anyone remember panty raids or drinking beer at the Roman Room or ordering a Vol Burger and fries at Sam and Andy's or watching streakers on the Strip in 1974 or listening to one-man band, Bill Jenkins, in the late 80s? Where have all the good times gone?
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Bill Jenkins singing / playing.....doesn't get any better than that!


Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got run over by a damned old train
 
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All this drop talk is irrelevant. It isn’t going to happen and we are fixing to be a 12 team playoff if we can’t make that it’s our fault. So quit with just play weak teams, in the sec there isn’t many. Get Tennessee Tough and suck it up and move on. We are getting better, great days ahead. GBO!
 
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Woodlawn VOL said:
All this drop has talk is irrelevant. It isn’t going to happen and we are fixing to be a 12 team playoff if we can’t make that it’s our fault. So quit with just play weak teams, in the sec there isn’t many. Get Tennessee Tough and suck it up and move on. We are getting better, great days ahead. GBO!
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Like I said, we play three quality SEC programs who are our rivals....Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Missouri. I hate all three of them!

And, my cigar tobacco doesn't flake from 15 years of drying.

We can play bammer in championship game each year.
 
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Never!!??

I agree. For the most part. I really don’t want their in-bread sister Lovin funk rubbing off on any of our guys.

Hey grammar police take a look at this and make sure that it’s OK.
 
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Jax_Vol said:
Starting in 2024, our annual games will consist of two traditional rivals and one newbie.

For us, we need to play Vandy and Kentucky as the traditional rivals.

Then, we can pick up Missouri as our newbie.

Those three games will create our cornerstone.
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Why don't we just move to conference USA instead so we can be the big swinging d!@k of the party every year
 
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OBTW, we beat Bama this year which propelled the team to a #1 in first CFP rankings… if we didn’t beat them, we wouldn’t have been in the CFP discussion this year. Perhaps we should stop playing UGA/USC 🤣
 
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VolPack22 said:
It’s pretty easy to argue whenever they have Florida St and Oregon St ranked ahead of the teams they beat head to head. They pick and choose when to use their criteria, and they very clearly chose to ignore it whenever slotting Alabama ahead of Tennessee. Alabama should never have been ranked ahead of Tennessee, even after the South Carolina loss.
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Should Tennessee have only dropped 1 spot after getting beat by 4 scores by 6-4 SC (7-4 afterwards)?

Because that’s the drop Tennessee would have needed to stay ahead of Bama.

If you think that…..OK.

If not if your like most folks and understand Tennessee should have dropped more than 1 spot, then you can’t punish them for the loss…….for just one week. Then say “well hey your punishment for losing that game is over.”
 
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Volsinnash said:
If head to head records or strength of schedule doesn’t matter for rankings, why should we schedule bama every year or tough out of conference opponents?
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Well, it used to be a michigan/OSU level rivalry (bigger). It decided the out come of the season. But, times have changed, and half of it I don't understand anymore.

All I can say is, I still have that hate for alabama burning. But, it's not about me, and it's not about your feelings. It's about putting these kids in the nfl. Playing alabama gives them exposure.
 
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I would miss the rivalries.
I like that we play Florida, Georgia and Alabama.
We just need to be better.
 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
Those of you supporting not playing Alabama, I don't want to see a word from you about Tennessee traditions.

If someone wants to make Neyland seat 80k and put in seats, keep your trap shut about tradition.

If someone wants to stop playing Rocky Top, you'd better not say, "It's tradition!"

If we do away with the T, I don't want to see a peep from y'all about tradition.
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Some traditions are more worthy of continuing than others.Tradition is never an all or nothing matter.
 
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JoAllan said:
Should Tennessee have only dropped 1 spot after getting beat by 4 scores by 6-4 SC (7-4 afterwards)?

Because that’s the drop Tennessee would have needed to stay ahead of Bama.

If you think that…..OK.

If not if your like most folks and understand Tennessee should have dropped more than 1 spot, then you can’t punish them for the loss…….for just one week. Then say “well hey your punishment for losing that game is over.”
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The lowest Alabama dropped was to 9th at 7-2 with several 1-loss teams behind them. Why is it that teams like Alabama and Ohio St only drop 3 spots whenever they lose, but the rest of the country drops 4, 5, 6 spots? If you can’t realize there is a bias then I don’t know what to say. Alabama should’ve been dropped into that 12ish range whenever they lost to LSU but the committee slobbers over them every single season. LSU also had no business being 7th after they beat Alabama. There is no rhyme or reason for where teams are slotted.
 
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VolPack22 said:
The lowest Alabama dropped was to 9th at 7-2 with several 1-loss teams behind them. Why is it that teams like Alabama and Ohio St only drop 3 spots whenever they lose, but the rest of the country drops 4, 5, 6 spots? If you can’t realize there is a bias then I don’t know what to say. Alabama should’ve been dropped into that 12ish range whenever they lost to LSU but the committee slobbers over them every single season. LSU also had no business being 7th after they beat Alabama. There is no rhyme or reason for where teams are slotted.
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Tennessee dropped 4 spots when they lost to Georgia. OSU dropped only 3…….because LSU lost.

Bama lost at the end on a 2pt conversion they dropped 3 spots. Tennessee wasn’t competitive vs Georgia and they dropped 4……I don’t think that’s a conspiracy.

Also by all means reply but refuse to answer the question. You know Tennessee should have dropped more than 1 spot……and they did.

As I have stated…….one can certainly argue Bama was “TOO” high to begin with…….that’s where folks should have their argument.
 
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