Tennessee takedown: Wildcats jump Volunteers in latest AP top 25 poll
As expected, there’s a new No. 1 in the land following Kentucky’s impressive 86-69 destruction of Tennessee in Lexington over the weekend.
Not only are the Volunteers no longer the top-ranked team in the nation, but they are also no longer the highest ranked team in the Southeastern Conference following the weekend result. Duke jumped back up to No. 1 in the latest AP poll followed by Gonzaga and Virginia, with Kentucky and Tennessee rounding out the top five.
Following a Tuesday win at Kentucky, LSU has risen six spots, up to No. 13 nationally in the poll. No other SEC teams are ranked this week in the AP poll.
Auburn (21), Mississippi State (2) and Ole Miss (1) are all listed in the “others receiving votes” category.
SEC team ranked in the new AP poll:
#4 Kentucky (up 1 spot)
#5 Tennessee (down 4 spots)
#13 LSU (up 6 spots)
I’m surprised to see that LSU jumped up as high as they did. I was expecting 15 or 16, but I’ll gladly take this.
How’s your day going?
Good I hope.
I know you are diligently searching for that post, so I’ll let you get back to it.
Oh, I started to add a few more to the UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY LAIRS CLUB-FOOTBALL DIVISION, but to do so would demean your status as a charter member.
Keep searching!
paris: I think all that meth is finally rotting your brain. That post made no sense at all.
WTF?
To cut to the chase, why don’t you ask LSUABC why I’m tracking him?
I will give you a synopsis
He lied about be posting a comment.
I challenged him to prove the post.
H hasn’t and can’t because the post never occurred.
And I assured him I was going to stay on his a-s until it didn’t.
If I offends you, don’t read my posts.
AND that silly remark that a defense attorney would never lie for his client.
I worked in federal court for over 20 years. Tie that bullsh-t on someone else.
I would like for you to go more in depth on my drug usage.
It’s not offend I get to talk to a guy who expertise seems to be ‘name calling’.
If you will go back and read responses to many of my posts, you will see I suffer from dementia, in a nursing home, have a nurse to wipe my a-s, etc. With you expertise I bet you know much more than they do.
I love it when they call me ‘old and senile’. Have you tried that one on your parents/grandparents lately? They’ll love you for it!
Yes, I’ve watched SEC football, both in Lexington and every other school in the SEC for over 60 years.
And I remember some great moments, probably before you were born, at Georgia.
But, you can call me names, slander me with your best shots, and it will, I’m sure, be a major factor in my mental demise.
lol, take your best shot.
ADB, is that really the best you can come up with?
Fatal attraction type stalker/groupie
I don’t know whether to congratulate you of feel sorry for you LSUSMC. Paris is now tracking your posts so he is either a member of your fan club (congratulations) or you now have an internet stalker (my apologies).
Make that my condolences.
See my response above.
How come you’re so worried about LSUABC?
Yea, fee sorry for him.
I told him I would go away, if and when, he admitted he lied about his post.
Until then, what for me regularly.
not ‘be’
lying about ‘me’ posting
and ‘try’ that bullsh-t on someone else.
so are you consoling a liar?
lol, ever heard the one about laying down with dogs and surprised you came up with fleas?
But, feel sorry for him.
No Paris, I’m just pointing out your hypocrisy. You have made fun of other people who track your posts and then comment negatively on them. Then low and behold you are doing the same thing. That is what I am doing – pointing out one of types of your hypocrisy.
For what it’s worth I do think some people go overboard on you but you bring it on yourself. So much so that fans of other teams, not just LSUSMC, are starting to call you out.
Here’s my two main beef with you 1) You make fun of some of the UK athletes. Don’t even try to deny it because I will do a ‘ALL THE FACTS’ smack down on you, I really will. The facts topic leads to point number two. You don’t give all the facts on a particular story, just the ones you want to support your angry or bitter point of view. Some of the facts you point out are exactly that – the facts – and if someone wants to argue with you on those facts they are just homers with blue shaded glasses. But as I stated you usually don’t give all the facts.
I do agree with you on some of the AD’s and coaches decisions – but I don’t agree with everything you say. So here are couple of real questions: Are you really a fan of University of Kentucky athletics and if so, WHAT THE HECK IS YOUR BEEF???
BTW Tom, I don’t think I’ve seen you post anything on any of the sites that would indicate you’re a University of Louisville fan. Maybe you did and I just missed it.
BTW # 2, Why disrespect a veteran of the United States Marine Corps by making fun of his screen name? This type of behavior is just like the disrespect you have shown for the student athletes… and that makes a statement that goes beyond sports and internet chat boards.
O didn’t t disrespect any military person. I said your friend might borrow some hanger downs from Sarge to gather guys to tell the truth.
I have never attacked a poster who hasn’t come after me first.
Yes,, I went after passionate Benny when he said he was the best running back in college football.
Yes I go aftertaste Barnhart for the way h has treated the football program. No professional search firms to find the best available head coach who might actually be interested in the job. Tearing down part of the stadium to allegedly build a much needed recruiting deck, when actually we couldn’t fill it. Now downsized,we rarely fill it now. In the major sport in campus, he signed the coach’s contract on a napkin.
We want to be a ‘Big boy’s program but we schedule three bunnies to get half way to the ‘ sacred six’ level for a bowl. (how’sstone for you to come back with Alabama, Georgia etc play weak sisters, BUT does their bowl future depend on beating all three of them?)
I’m sure you’re aware we open with two also rans from the MAC conference next season.c
I want the University of Kentucky to have the best possible programs in college sports.
How many other athletic directors would put up with a coach saying he’s just as satisfied with putting players in the professional ranks as he is winning national championships? Name any school where their AD has or would agree to that.
My father played two years at Kentucky. Why would I have any allegiance to Louisville.
If you know me so well, have I ever shown the ‘cheerleader’ mentality?
I post facts to back up my points, and then watch as other call me a liar. Some critics go after me with slander, have problems with my age post falsehoods about my physical and mental abilities and a couple slandering my wife.
What stats have I left out that offends you?
So in closing,a few weeks ago I contract management of SDS giving posts the artist were the post could be found and pointed out posts that were offensive about my wife.
Their response was I was too thin skinned. So, I decided to get down in the gutter call out the liars, and force them to prove their slanderous posts.
Please look at Sevent’s last comment to me.AND then get back to me. And you think I should lighten up. LSUABC is a liar and the example of this post. And you think I’m too harsh with these people? I’ll wait ti hear from you
The guy is nuts. I don’t mind him following me around. He is a Louisville fan posing as a Kentucky fan and he is upset that I called him out. I’m now charter member of some club he created. Almost makes me famous.
Why don’t you tell them WHY I follow you around?
You didn’t call me out. You said you read a post where I said I was a Louisville fan. how them the post and let them decide. Heck, they already are feeling sorry for you.
Heck, better yet, show a copy of my post that can prove you aren’t the liar that I remind you about every day.
Wouldn’t that clear up the matter?
Heck, maybe Sarge would loan you some hanger downs to let you be a man and admit you lied. Maybe I can loan your whining club some crying towels.
See ya tomorrow.
Keep searching!
Definitely nuts.
So how’s the search going TODAY?
You know you lied, and until you admit it do you really think I’m going away? Gather all the whiners you wish but that’s not going to change the truth is it? See ya later.
Did I confront UGARMY initially or after he called me a math user?
LSUABC lied and refuses to admit it. I will stay on his a-s until he does.
Matt Elem, the young man who turned down Alabama to come to Kentucky. Probably if he had gone to Alabama he might be getting ready to play in the NFL. I didn’t negatively comment on the kid, I commented on the Kentucky’s staff failing to make him a SEC player.
Are you bring the ‘shine’ on the trip this year?
Paris
I hope the Nursing Home is making sure you are taking your medication. Did you know a sign of Dementia is repeating your self over and over and being combative with strangers? Perhaps you should talk it over with your Doctor.
I understand the lying business, you simply can not remember what you say one day to the next. Good luck old man.
I don’t know about all the other stuff in your post but you might be right about Elem going to Bama. At Bama he would have known that most os the other guys on the D-line were better than him and if he wanted to play then he would have to work and really work hard to get any playing time.
I read a post from person that apparently went to high school with him. The poster said Elem had a motivation problem even in high school. You can get away with that in high school but not big time SEC ball. I hope he got his degree while he was at UK and that things work out for him.
P10, I tried to respond the previous thread that you and I had going but the site wouldn’t post it. Trust me, I didn’t include any foul language or make any threats. Who knows, maybe it will show up later.
Anyone who is surprised by this poll is foolish. UT loses twice (both times to top 5 opponents on the road) and drops 4 spots. Others ahead of UT lose twice (unranked opponents) and barely move…
I have no issue with this and it will show the good guys in Orange that all the praise (chuckling of course) they received prior was simple lip service.
The AP poll isn’t a good metric, but I’d also point out that both timing and quality wins matter. Tennessee’s loss was bad timing for this week’s rankings, and they don’t have the quality wins that some teams ahead of them do. Also, it’s kinda hard to put them ahead of UK right now, so they then have to fall behind every team ahead of UK. Taken in aggregate, these polls also seem to suggest the close clustering of the top teams (a feature individual polls ignore) that many commentators have noted.
It didn’t matter who UT lost to. They were going to fall furthere than other teams in that spot fell and we all knew it was coming. Duke was #1 and lost to an unranked team and didn’t fall as far as we did losing to a top 5 team.
It’s OK though and I’m sure the players see this and it will remind them what they have to do.
Maybe they fell further because later in the season we know more about teams and they thought that there are 5 top teams, which led them to putting the most recent loser (who lost convincingly) in the fifth slot? Maybe they fell further because they didn’t have as good of a resume? Or maybe they lost at a time when there were more teams with reasons to be moved up?
Rankings aren’t ratings, so no loss and corresponding ranking change are equal. You can lose and not drop or win and not rise in rankings. Another way losses aren’t equal – that Duke loss was without 2 starters who will be 1st round draft picks. Like it or not, people had an excuse for their loss. The vols didn’t.
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Underdog mentalities are for fans and overmatched players/teams.
If the vols aren’t good and/or focused enough to win without creating an underdog narrative, they have bigger problems.
something is messed up in the comment system.
So are people missing the fact that UT has only played 3 ranked teams the whole year while other teams in the Big Ten and ACC have played 5-7? Granted, they have been on the road or on neutral court. The only home game against a ranked opponent right now for Tennessee is Kentucky. The only ranked opponents they have left are Kentucky and LSU, LSU on Saturday will be a tough game like at Kentucky, UT has to come out mentally strong for 40 minutes to win for sure.
Being #1 was nice while it lasted. I doubt many vol fans thought we were going to win out and rupp was the obvious choice for the 2nd loss, especially after their loss to LSU. However the Loss was so overwhelmingly lopsided it hurt a lot more IMO. We will know soon enough if we are contenders or pretenders. A ” get your sh!tvtogetger”game vs vandy and then another big test in the red stick.
Just like the Vols walked into a mad hornet’s nest at Rupture AQrena, so is Vandy tonight at Rocky Top.
Huh?