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Brooktrout

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ever win more league games than they lose? Does anyone know the last time that either of these schools accomplished that? You will be suprised. Oh, for those that want to respond with "it depends if they use a WR for their QB", well, I"ll just go ahead and get that one out of the way. :)
 
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It's hard to predict the future, but I'd say either this year or next year for Vandy.

Vanderbilt should beat Kentucky and Ole Miss. Tennessee is at the end of the season and could either be a dynamo or a dud, in the latter case probably very beatable (let's hope for dynamo). Missouri, Florida and Auburn all look better than Vanderbilt on paper but, if Vanderbilt comes to play this season, beating two of them doesn't seem like all that much a stretch.

I think Vanderbilt is an 8 win team in one of the next two seasons.
 
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21 point wins over USCe, Georgia, and Arkansas? Mizzou being their best game of the year? Has he seen Kentucky football?
 
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DynamiteMcGhee said:
21 point wins over USCe, Georgia, and Arkansas? Mizzou being their best game of the year? Has he seen Kentucky football?
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The kicker for me was "21 pts over fla IN the swamp"...that'd be like the apocalypse...not to mention "the streak over Tennesseee will go to 2-0"...I think he's lost his brother-lovin mind!!!
 
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No. James Franklin and Vandy are getting too much credit. They are beter than they normally are but at the end of the day, they are still Vandy and will always be a bottom feeder.
 
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Didn't KY win a #1 title back when Bear Bryant coached there?

And wasn't Neyland hired so we could beat Vandy back in the day?

I'd say thats how far back you gotta go for those teams to be title contenders/winning more conference games than they lost
 
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Vandy has a better chance than UK. Hell, Appalachian State has a better chance to win the SEC than Kentucky does
 
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Daloth said:
Didn't KY win a #1 title back when Bear Bryant coached there?

And wasn't Neyland hired so we could beat Vandy back in the day?

I'd say thats how far back you gotta go for those teams to be title contenders/winning more conference games than they lost
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They lost to Tennessee and finished the season with the same number of losses as the Vols. The "NC" was awarded by Sagarin's fuzzy math 40 years later. KY entered the bowls ranked 7th. They did knock off the #1 team in a bowl game. That was back when the title was decided before the bowls. But, even had the title been awarded afterwards, they wouldn't have jumped everybody, especially the Big Orange.
 
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Brooktrout said:
ever win more league games than they lose? Does anyone know the last time that either of these schools accomplished that? You will be suprised. Oh, for those that want to respond with "it depends if they use a WR for their QB", well, I"ll just go ahead and get that one out of the way. :)
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For UK it was in 1977 when they went 6-0 in SEC play and 10-1 overall. They also were .500 in 1984, 1998 and 2006.

For Vandy it was in 1982 when the were 4-2 in conference and 8-4 overall. They were 4-4 in the SEC in 2008.

Playing a WR at QB could only help them get above .500 if Dooley were allowed to float from school to school and coach all the teams UK faced in a given season. Pretty much any other coach would figure out a way to overcome that.
 
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DynamiteMcGhee said:
A 2-0 streak. That's adorable.
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Yeah, he said it like "THE STREAK will go to 2-0"

It would only be a streak if they won 2 in a row, not in 30 years. Talking like they'll ever be able to use the term "the streak" over anybody not in the Sun Belt Conference...
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
For UK it was in 1977 when they went 6-0 in SEC play and 10-1 overall. They also were .500 in 1984, 1998 and 2006.

For Vandy it was in 1982 when the were 4-2 in conference and 8-4 overall. They were 4-4 in the SEC in 2008.

Playing a WR at QB could only help them get above .500 if Dooley were allowed to float from school to school and coach all the teams UK faced in a given season. Pretty much any other coach would figure out a way to overcome that.
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UK's 1977 team was on probation and ineligible for the SEC title. IDK if the 1977 team is eligible to be the answer to the OP's question.
 
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ukvols said:
UK's 1977 team was on probation and ineligible for the SEC title. IDK if the 1977 team is eligible to be the answer to the OP's question.
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He just asked when the last time they won more conference games than they lost. If that one doesn't count, they also went 5-1 in conference the season before that. They also went to a bowl game that year, so I assume they weren't on probation in 1976.
 
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