Peter Burns says Alabama-Tennessee has legitimate hype: ‘There’s something that feels real about it’
By Keith Farner
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Peter Burns can’t remember a time when he was as fired up about a game that he didn’t have a dog in the hunt for, and that extends to the SEC Championship Game and College Football Playoff.
The SEC Network commentator is ready for the Alabama-Tennessee game, and he was as soon as last week’s games were over. Burns noted that the StubHub get-in price for the game in Neyland Stadium is $350.
“There’s something that feels real about it,” Burns said on SiriusXM. “As opposed to the last couple of years we tried to make Georgia and Kentucky a thing. You never know, but we kind of knew. We were trying to build it up, but I don’t feel like you need to build up Alabama and Tennessee so far this year, and I can’t recall the last time I was this pumped up for a game.”
#3 Alabama (6-0) @ #6 Tennessee (5-0) on Saturday. @PeterBurnsESPN is beyond fired up for this one.
Is this the game of the year in college football? pic.twitter.com/srnnR3xCho
— College Sports on SiriusXM (@SXMCollege) October 12, 2022
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
