Bill Connelly ($$):
Once Hendon Hooker and the Vols get that first first down in a given drive, their odds of scoring skyrocket; that’s a problem for Napier considering almost everyone gets that first first down against the Gators (Florida’s three-and-punt rate: 16%, 123rd in FBS).
So it’s going to be up to Gators quarterback Anthony Richardson to keep up.
That should work out well.
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All of this Meteor Game talk made me just change my pool pick. I had Florida plus the points, but I just don’t see how the Handbags have a chance to keep this close.
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I think the spread is right. In most scenarios Tennessee wins this game and should win it by several TDs if it was the pairing of any other 2 schools. But there are also scenarios where Tennessee throws inexplicable INTs that kill long drives and pick 6s to keep Florida in the game.
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Florida is in their head as bad as they were for us back in the early 2000s.
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As much as it pains me to do so, I think I’d rather have UF win this game. That will knock the Vols down a peg and give UF some false hope heading into our game in a few weeks.
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Biggen, we win either way. Coach 30 is going to be in the loser’s film room next week regardless of the outcome. The only question will be who pisses down their leg tomorrow.
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EE, you are right. I’m back to hoping for a meteor now!
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Good Dawg, sir, good Dawg!
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“…passed like an elective.”
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All AR15 needs is a little motivation…and then he can get after it like a hobo on a ham sandwich.
Personally, I wish there was a way for both teams to lose…I hate both teams…FU slightly more
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The most amazing thing to me is not how poorly Richardson has played in their last two games, or that I’ve thrown as many touchdown passes as he has this season. It’s that despite those bad performances, he still appears on some of those “Heisman Watch” lists you see around.
As I’ve stated elsewhere today, having an audience is no guarantee against being a dumbass, and this confirms it.
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Everybody has the Vols here. I think the Gators are going to run it down their throat.
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That’s their only hope.
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I sort of think that too. Let Richardson run and just keep Tennessee offense on the sideline.
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Man, that ought to get the golf balls and mustard bottles flying.
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Regardless of what happens one side will be despondent and the other will be massively tempted to misplaced confidence. Sounds good to me.
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Part of me feels like the Vols win this game easily. All of me feels like they both can kiss my ass.
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I’m good with any outcome here. Either the Vols win as expected, building up all this self-worth to the point where they think they’ve arrived, then we crush them mercilessly between the hedges; or the Vols lose and spiral uncontrollably without realizing they were third rate either way.
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Apparently AR still has night sweats and PDS from the way he ended the 1st half of our game last year. The kids confidence got destroyed.
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Is Tennessee good, though? I know they’ve got a wide open offense, and I’m glad we get them later once our secondary gets their sea legs fully underneath them, but will they be able to hang with Alabama in a few weeks? Or Kentucky later on?
For this game, though, I usually apply my Iron Bowl meter to it: which team has the most to lose? That’s the one I’m cheering against.
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We are still early in the season. Tennessee had a semi quality overtime win over Pitt. If Pitt had a healthy QB??? They beat the snot out of the little sisters of the poor twice.
Florida had a quality win over Utah, a loss against Kentucky and a shakey win over USF. They have a pretty good defense and a good run game..
Tennessee is favored for some good reasons. But if Florida sticks with the run game, including Richardson, and controls the flow of the game it could be interesting. Tennessee looks to be the better team but so far their results don’t prove much. Fuck em both
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Your last sentence is really the bottom line.
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Yeah Mark if I had it to do over again I would put my last sentence first. So here goes.
Fuck em both.
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With a mustard bottle…
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Chinese hot mustard.
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This is really a win-win for Georgia. If Tennessee whips Florida then the heat will be on Napier. Zook and McElwain beat Tennessee their first year. If Tennessee doesn’t win then the misery continues for Tennessee. Maybe they will both look like shit in a close game.
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It’s a Groundhog’s Day game: a long, cold winter begins immediately for the loser. For the winner, a precious life-giving dram of false hope.
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The incoming freshmen have seen (I think) one Tennessee win in this series in their lifetime. Florida has almost single-handedly driven that program to a Mississippi State level. But then there’s Alabama. Tennessee has not won a rivalry game (Alabama, Georgia, Florida) in five years, spanning three head coaches. Since 2008 they’re something like 4-38 in their three rivalry series, spanning five head coaches, four of them fired after significant collapses.
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This is a game that UT usually loses before the 1st play. They seem to approach this the same way UGA approached the FU game for so many years, just waiting for something bad to happen & then snowball. If UT gets off to a bad start, it probably happens again.
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It’s really mental. I remember the game more than ten years ago when the Tennessee QB scored to go up big in the Swamp and taunted the FU student section with the Gator Chomp- and then coughed up the lead and the game. That seemed to sum up the series recently.
UT led the all-time series by double digits into the Fulmer era. Now they trail by double digits.
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That’s it exactly. I fully expect it to happen again unless they come out the way we did against FU in 2017! That was a cathartic win
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