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We love a good losing streak to our rivals , what can I say? Thank God we didn't have to play with powerhouse USF today, man that could have gotten ugly for us.

In our defense , most of our fans were screaming WTF?? after he did that. Nobody on our side thought that was cool or made sense either.

This one's going to come down to what it's almost always been. Tennessee's 'lines vs yours. If we can set the trenches , we'll win. If not , we get embarrassed in the swamp, again.

Those were also some really loaded and well coached UF teams too. Without Tebow , I don't think those Meyer teams were all around vastly better than Spurrier's .

Normally I want Florida full strength, just so if we beat them, there's no * beside it. This year though, I hope they're just flat and we smoke em because we need to get these mental blocks out of our heads as a program. I feel like if we can win in Gainesville this year, we'll play them better going forward. It's crazy how some of their worst teams of all time have found a way to punk us down there.

The media's annoying asf when it comes to Alabama, but you know you're on another level as a program when every rare loss results in a sh*tstorm of speculation about whether the coach is mulling retirement, who's gonna replace him, the end of the dynasty is near , etc...

Not sure why the ??? supposed to be a .

But he was The Future ???

Doesn't matter if the coach knocked up your mom, gave your spot to a walk-on , and told the whole team to sing you have a mangina . You don't badmouth your former team and coaches publicly. It's just plain stupid.

The heisman should be decided after bowl season and the NC game. If one or two big games can make or break a heisman invite, then they all should be played before given that award imo.

Wish in one hand and dook in the other

In our last meeting , we had a significant talent advantage and they thumped us . It felt like that game stuck a fork in our program and signaled our downward spiral . I pray we show up to play . It's our turn to return the favor.

Come on man, that's just weak. Tennessee gave you guys an easy free TD late in the game and answered your every shot. Regardless of how inept they looked against Georgia and South Carolina , they matched you for every swing and beat the gumps in regulation. Nothing more , nothing less. It's hard to admit when you're not king anymore, but reality is reality.

I don't know if Alabama deserves a spot more than OSU does , but I think they'd go toe to toe with anyone below Georgia right now. So why not?

I don't really know what was going on with our defense . It seemed more than just having an off day for sure. That being said , everyone blames the coaches when things don't go well. Most of the time , it's the players not doing what they're supposed to do or just stinking at it in general . Rattler was making throws on a rope last night. Dude was on another level.

Thank you for that , I mean just showing class in a world where it's becoming less and less frequent.

Over confidence doesn't really fit Heupel's personality. His team just tilted full re tad and left him standing there trying to put the pieces together on the fly. I will admit that it was his fault for not having his DC have another LB on defense capable of getting everyone lined up . All the talk of "next man up" early in the season and they obviously lost their minds without Jeremy Banks to hold their hands.

I actually loved the helmets. Can't blame a color combination for a team showing up drunk.

Point is, it's not a gimmick . Put the right players all over the field like the real top 2 or 3 teams have and Heupel's offense steamrolls.

I don't think the offense "scheme" is a gimmick at all. It absolute works if the players running it are comparable athletes to the one's defending it. Then you have Tennessee running it . When we were clicking, it gave people fits. But eventually, the talent disparity in some cases , or just really poor execution in others, made it look bad. Our Oline gets pushed around , our receivers start dropping easy catches , or the normally sharp qb starts overshooting his receivers by 6 feet . Tell me Tua's better teams running this offense wouldn't be scary. Imagine Alabama's better olines with Tua, Julio Jones, Amari Cooper , Derek Henry running it. They'd drop 70 per game against pretty much anyone . Put JJ or DH in space against anyone and it's probably 6 .

Very few people think this way. A lot of folks are sick of the lack of defense and preparation, but only a few hot heads are pulling the Butch comparisons. Heupel's earned a place at UT for the foreseeable future. The DC and DBs coach on the other hand , may want to rethink their strategy going forward.

Hopefully the underclassmen learned from this. Nothing is given to you in this league. You don't deserve anything you don't fight your tail off for. You don't take a week off to think ahead. You go in half -ssed expecting an easy win against a struggling team with a 5 star qb, and you're probably going to get lit up . Painful

We're working on that 2020 vibe .

Agreed . Seriously wish the mouthy talkers , fans and players , would jump off the wagon and go somewhere else.

I believe the team must have had that same mentality heading into this game. Someone must have forgotten to warn them that Rattler was a match buried In the hay. Eventually he was gonna get a spark and a gust of wind and Tennessee's defense was just what he needed . Hard lesson to learn in dramatic fashion. You earn your wins in the SEC.

Rattler will go have a highlight reel performance against us. Of course we'll still probably win comfortably.

Georgia will have the satisfaction of knowing they prevented Tennessee from having a heisman at the end of it all. Maybe the football gods will let karma reign and let UT deny them a national title .

If I remember right, Spurrier was p/o'd about Fulmer smoking them his first time at bat in 92 and after that Spurrier had no mercy.

I would say most people didn't like it. Did you see Heupel's face after the last TD? He wasn't gloating. When your job is to get your team competing for titles and not sitting at home during the playoffs, you do what you have to do. He'd already blown his chance to walk in easy. Respect is much needed in sports as anywhere else, but this was no disrespect.

I don't think the committee needed to be awakened to UT's suspect defense this late in the season . Nice to have something to hang your hat on I guess.