Tennessee vs. Georgia: 5 things I want to see from the Vols on Saturday
Tennessee will host Georgia in what will likely be a mismatch Saturday night. However, this game is not quite that simple.
Here are 5 things I want to see from the Vols on Saturday:
Improvement from Jarrett Guarantano
I was firmly in the camp that Guarantano could end up being the No. 3 quarterback in the SEC behind Alabama’s Tua Tuavalio and Georgia’s Jake Fromm after the season. I’m still betting on Guaratano despite all the talk that there’s a quarterback controversy in Knoxville. Guarantano has plenty of skill. He has just been seemingly uncomfortable in a new offense under Jim Chaney in his return to Tennessee.
Far too often Guarantano seems to look to one side of the field while making his reads. Chaney is smart enough to recognize as much. Chaney can fix Guaratano’s issues — or Guarantano can fix them himself. Look for either, or both, to occur Saturday.
As much as Guarantano has been criticized, he’s still ranked No. 6 in passing efficiency in the SEC. Guarantano finished the season No. 8 last season. That’s improvement, although slightly. It takes time to rebuild an offense. It’s worth noting that Chaney has only been on UT’s coaching staff for just over 9 months. Good things could still happen.
More Jauan Jennings
Man, Jennings is good. As I’ve said for weeks, he’s become a strong, emotional leader for the Vols. It’s time to put the ball in his hands more — much more.
Three years ago, he made his signature play against Georgia — catching the game-winner in traffic on the Hail Mary from Josh Dobbs.
Imagine some sort of Wildcat-package with Jennings playing quarterback. Jennings played quarterback in high school and he just might provide the Vols with a little more pop on offense.
Jennings tried to take a similar role before he was kicked off of the team following the 2017 season. Maybe he was right. When it comes to size/speed ratio, the Vols don’t have anyone much better.
No checkers
Georgia fans have talked about “checkering” Neyland Stadium like the Vols did against Oklahoma in 2015. Well, that was a home game for the Vols against the Sooners. There will be no “checkering” of Neyland Stadium on Saturday. UT fans have shown support for the Vols for the past decade when they’ve been stumbling. There’s no doubt in my mind that UT fans will show up Saturday.
True, raw emotion — and a win
Tennessee can beat Georgia on Saturday. Yes, it’s true. Both teams will be intent on running the football, which will keep the game close late into the 4th quarter. The Vols will need 1 key play. Something tells me that in this weird world we call college football that the Vols will actually beat Georgia on Saturday, just like they stunned Auburn last year and beat No. 11 Kentucky despite entering both games with a losing record.
Support for Pruitt
It’s been a long road for Jeremy Pruitt to become a head coach. He’s faced some incredible twists and turns, especially this week. UT fans should show him the support he deserves on Saturday.
Imagine how the narrative would change if UT actually beat Georgia on Saturday. Seriously, take a moment. All of the talk about the instability in Tennessee’s football program would suddenly change. The Vols would be the talk of college football and likely more.
Will it happen? Can the Vols actually upset one of the top teams in the nation? Why not? Nothing in UT football history has been predictable for the past decade. Why start now?
I don’t believe my eyes!
Hooker, you aren’t asking for much are you? Maybe you could write an article telling us what you want to see from the Braves too. That would be about as realistic as what you want to see from UT.
“Imagine how the narrative would change if UT actually beat Georgia on Saturday. Seriously, take a moment.”
And then take a moment to consider if the Queen had male genitalia. Seriously, then she’d be king!
Consult with brokebackvol about that, I guess.
98 was a good year, I must say.
This Hooker guy is Bipolar
Who wrote this and put hookers name on it. Bipolar is right.
What has he been smoking?
Oh and cue the UGA trolls
corch and the dumba$$ofwar will have a lot to trash us on this one.
Is it really “trolling” when it’s literally an article about Ut vs UGA?
Do you ever read what they write. Not just about UT but nearly everyone.
Fuzzy may be write here. I talk a lot of crap to Sakerlina, but Corch and the other dude take the cake… most doesn’t even make sense. Although I’d like to see a “red/black” checkering of Neyland, I don’t think we can pull that one off. Hopes for a good, solid win and no injuries.
Oh, and Fuzzy, you guys gotta beat the Coots, so BLPB and Garnet/Black will shut up! Mizzou did, and hopefully the Vols will too!
@sicem that’s cute that SC and myself take up that much of your headspace, but please quit, it’s getting sad, no I will not go out with you. And please quit posing as a GA fan, everyone knows you are just a pathetic loser that couldn’t hack it in SC so you moved to NC.
You are amusing and full of yourself. Don’t bother leaving your Clarendon county trailer to make the trip to Athens. You’ll just be disappointed again and have a long,sad bus ride back cause mama June won’t let you drive her Vega that far.
@sicem truth hurts, you do seem obsessed with me and SC and someone from NC making trailer jokes, your life is full of irony, not sure what a mama June is, must be some kind of white trash NC greeting, I guess I should be offended. Serious question, if you are a GA fan, which we all know by your history you aren’t, then what week do you see them losing? because we all know it’s going to happen in tremendous fashion, GA will GA
Well, it won’t be this week. Honestly though, I’ve said all year I don’t think we run the table but still end up in Atlanta vs Bama or LSU. Is spite of what happened this weekend, both UF and AU will be tough outs and I can’t sleep on Mizzou for an upset. IF a loss comes, I’d probably pick AU on the plains. Now for you who seems obsessed with Bama and anyone else but the coots (check YOUR posts), what is your revised final W/L total. Or are you sticking with that crack pipe induced prediction from the Summer for 7-5 as the floor?
I guess I do fully understand why your obsessed with Bama, cause your team has sucked for a long time and will as long as Muschamp is in charge of the chicken coop.
@sicem check your posts and tell me who has mentioned Bama and SC more than you, I just simply point to the fact that we all know GA will GA and you assume it’s Bama when I’m reality it’s a number of teams that could beat GA because truth is GA has all those 5 stars and 0 NC’s to show for it and they won’t with Smart there.
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I’ll take that bet. Lemme know when your boys start stacking up 5* talent… ain’t gonna happen. Kids don’t wanna go where they can’t win anything! When’s the last time SC won any championship (East doesn’t count) in football? I’ll wait a long time for your response. You’re not relevant and never will be.
Maybe you should just be quiet until you beat Georgia.
When’s the last time GA won a Natty despite having the best High School talent in the world in their yard, If I were you I’d worry about winning something of value before you open your mouth, GA, always the bridesmaid never the bride. Not sure what bet you are talking about, it seems lately you are having more conversations with yourself, you should have that checked out the next time the free RAM clinic comes through your Appalachian town, but if you are referring to GA blowing it in GA fashion, it’s just facts.
Also using your own words, when do 5 stars quit coming to GA when they realize that GA can’t get the job done in the big games? The beautiful art of Georgiaing
Shhhh. Be quiet until SC beats UGA! Here’s a bet for ya Lil Billy. If SC wins Sat, I’ll quit posting on SDS. If GA wins you shut up and go away?
You talk a lot about GA and not SC. Put up or shut up little sad fan of a really bad team.
And, GA has won a Natty and several SEC Championships. Remind me of when the coots won either in football.
I’d bet you if you were really a GA fan but you’re not. You are just a sad, pathetic loser who couldn’t make in SC so now you live in NC and cry yourself to sleep at night on your C*ck shaped pillow because you couldn’t make it in SC. the only time I talk GA anything is when you and that other bandwagon jumper goga starts crying about sc with your fake little G avatars. Ps I don’t need to bet because as soon as GA GA’s your a$$ will disappear again for about another 8 months like last year, lol
There you go, just like last year, when the chickens season went South resorting to the dumpster talk to cover up lack of education/understanding. I asked you two simple questions and you avoid both and CONTINUE to spout garbage. 1. What is your revised crack pipe induced guess for SC’s record or are you sticking with the 7-5 is the floor from this Summer? 2. Take the bet to shut up and go away if SC loses to the Dawgs or IF the Dawgs lose, I’ll go away and you can enjoy. I KNOW YOU ARE SCARED! PUT UP OR SHUT UP LIL’ BILLY!
70% of your posts are about UGA. The other 30% are “CONGRATS” to other teams for beating that chicken butt!
@sicem, 90% of my posts are responding to your ridiculous obsession with SC articles. You are actually trying to troll SC on a TN article here and failing miserably. As far as the bet again if you were an actual GA I would consider it with the spread, again I never once said SC would beat GA this year, if SC finished 6-6 I would be one win off on my prediction and I was right about TN’s season and wrong about Mizz’s. I can admit that, now on to you and your fandom, I ask you “GA Fan” when do you see GA losing? Since you are so concerned about my picks why don’t you grow some ball$ and make some predictions.
So it’s actually a GA/TN article, so what are you doing here but trolling me. Other than getting called out. As for a prediction, apparently reading and/or reading comprehension is not one of your skill sets. I said I’ve never expected GA to run the table and could be upset with either FL, AU, or even Mizzou. But I picked AU because of our troubles on The Plains. And stop the crap about point spreads! Either you got confidence in the chicken coop crowd on Saturday or you don’t. I am confident it’ll be a long, sad, bus ride back to Bull Street for you. So confident I’ll put the posting on SDS on the line. You, on the other hand are SCARED and you know it. Like a true chicken fan, go ahead and start talking about next year! Or change your avatar to Bama or LSU.
So my math was a little off. 90% responding to me trolling you, which I don’t do to the rational/educated SC fans, just the stereotypical ones, which my friend you are to the highest level.
Nice try but you talked about SC and attempted to call me out to start this on a TN/GA page you are a fraud who pretends to be a GA fan, But really you just are obsessed with me and the SC program your desperate history shows it. I’d laugh if it wasn’t so sad and pathetic as far as the bet again I never predicted a win over GA and I’m glad we are on the same page about GA sh*tting the bed because it will happen. As far as the bet, you are a special kind of dipsh*t aren’t you, I never said SC would beat GA, even though it wouldn’t be a surprise, so why would I bet against my pick, because someone claiming to be a fan attempted to insult me into it, you really are dense aren’t you..now if you wanna take one of my preseason predictions and bet me on It I will gladly take that bet; ex you take the Vols I’ll stick with sc or if you wanna bet the team you claim to follow, I’ll take the west winner in the SEC championship if GA makes it.
OK Lil Billy, I’ll take the bet on your 7-5 is the floor prediction. Cause, I see you winning 6 maybe.
Again if you are going to quote it little sic boy 7-5 was my prediction 6-6 was the floor 8-4 was the ceiling for someone so mesmerized by my predictions you would think you could get them right
Memory loss in 12 yr olds is uncommon, but you are proving me wrong. We’ve been down this road before where whatever you’re smoking dilutes your thought processes. I’ll go through it again for ya. On the SC Crystal Ball article BLPB said,”7-5 (4-4) third in SEC East. It’s highly possible for an 8-4 finish or even 9-3 finish but I would say 7-5 is our floor, given the schedule, returning talent, depth, new talent, etc. vs our competitors.” Maybe you didn’t say 7-5 is the floor but you sure as heck typed it! So, with that said, if SC doesn’t go at least 7-5, you disappear. If they do, I’ll disappear. I’m sure you’ll have some witty comment you think is ground breaking, but put up or shut up Lil’ Billy. And be quiet till SC beats Georgia!
@sicem so says the little boy who pretends to be a GA fan. I have always said and typed 8-4 would be the ceiling, 6-6 being the floor and I had them finishing at 7-5. If you had any ball$ you would’ve made the bet when I made the prediction, instead acting like you grew a pair overnight and trying to make halfa$$ed bet 7 weeks in or you can be a man and take the bet by picking the Vols, whose fanbase I was arguing with when you decided to come out of your 8 month hiatus after not being man enough to admit you wrong about GA last year, and running from the site like a scared little b*tch. So feel free to take the Vols App State or Vandy since I had SC winning those games in my preseason pics that you seem to masturb@te over each night.I shouldn’t bet with you anyway because the end result would be the same, you will disappear one way or another because that’s what you do, like a true p*ssy. There is no incentive to make a wager with you like I have with so many on here before. RIP Keno 98, lol you wouldn’t honor it anyway, 8 months later you would just show up again. Truth is I don’t even respect you enough to make a bet, you proven time again just to be a half a$$ed troll, you are nothing more than an ESEC.
As expected you don’t live in truth, even after being quoted from your own writing… at least have some guts to go back and look it up. BTW, you seem fixated on a particular lifestyle, is there something you need to come out about? I hope you don’t kiss your mama with that mouth every morning while she’s packing your lunch for school. I’ll leave you alone now. But please BE QUIET UNTIL SC BEATS GA. You are an embarrassment to SC fans!
@sic boy not fixated on a life style but you seem to be fixated on me and SC, that’s all you type about, that and tons of men leaning on other men, interesting choice of words, you also talk about “mama” a lot, some might call those Freudian slips, but I digress. I will never shut up because some little c*nt that couldn’t hack it in SC and now lives in NC and pretends to be a GA fan tells me to, good luck with the rest of your season ESEC, here’s to hoping you find peace with whoever hurt you you sad pathetic man
PS talking about reality, you are still in denial about GA being a playoff caliber team last year. You remember you went on a rant about it and then crickets after GA GA’d, at least admit when you are wrong and when others are right, then maybe you might have friends one day and not be so fixated on me and the SDS comment section, it’s a sad place to seek validation.
Shhhhh. Be quiet until SC beats GA.
BTW, I did own up to the Texas loss right after, mentioning the Bevo vs UGA altercation as the start of our downfall. You on the other hand cannot stand to admit what you’ve typed, even when quoted directly back to you. Or, maybe I was right and you can’t read! “7-5 as the floor” probably more likely the ceiling.
Shhh you should be quiet til you admit that I was right and you were dead wrong about GA bring and deserving a top 4 spot and playoff spot last year, congrats on admitting the tx loss but you never addressed the elephant in the room, especially after all that sh*t talking you did last year no wonder you hit fir 8 months lol
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“Something tells me that in this weird world we call college football that the Vols will actually beat Georgia on Saturday….”
Nobody else inhabits your weird world, Dave.
Try this: “Hello? Hello?” (No answer.)
That same “something” told me the Dawgs win by four touchdowns.
Evidently your world is the same one I inhabit.
Hooker – “Dear, everyone on SDS hates me. Even the posts of fans from the other SEC schools say I’m a greasy turd. What should I do (pitiful sobbing)? Wife – “Well (sucking in a long deep draw off a Kool), you are a greasy turd. I should know. Perhaps you should take that little laptop of yours and try to write a legitimately objective article for once. I know it will be very hard for a fiction writer like you, but you should at least try it. Stop crying you little “puff of a man” and take the trash out.”
BWAAAAH HA HA!!! Funny..
LOL
Cocaine is a heckuva drug.
LOL. Someone got on some anti-depressants this morning.
My favorite part was, “Tennessee can beat Georgia on Saturday. Yes, it’s true.”
No, Dave. No they can’t, and no it isn’t. This is more of sure a thing as our Vandy game. They didn’t score a TD. We’re going for y’all not scoring at all for the second trip to Knoxville.
Actually, he’s right about the POSSIBILITY; and you saying that this game is as sure a bet as Vandy is ridiculous.
It’s obvious–even with the early season struggles–that Tennessee is more capable than Vanderbilt.
The fact is, ALL the pressure is on UGA this Saturday. Tennessee can go out and lose by 30 but if they don’t, the narrative will be that “Georgia is not ready for Primetime,” and not “Tennessee is still a Trainwreck.
Tennessee is more capable than Vandy?
Where have YOU been the last three years???
Tua Tuavalio
tsnapp…..excellent.
After the last few articles Hooker is trying to save himself. He was called out by TN fans and others. Please don’t let this a..hole off. He doesn’t cite sources and should be boycotted from SDS.
Things I want to see:
Many fewer articles about Tennessee, and no more Dave Hooker articles at all.
This proves what Hooker is about- stirring the pot. Why has there been negativity from the fans? Because ofthe play on the field AND because of the piling on by writers… especially articles that have been suggesting Fulmer wants to take over the team. Writers, you can’t have it both ways.
He’ll be back to his negative ways maybe even before this game.
Hooker, you tried to create a narrative of Fulmer gunning to replace Pruitt when there wasn’t one and even went so far as to make unsubstantiated claims about sources and leaks (which by all accounts everywhere are completely false). You’ve seemingly gone out of your way to pile on UT and the state of their program. Now, it appears that you’re either trying to correct for your actions or throw UT fans a bone by again living in a fantasy world and making ridiculous claims. You keep saying crazy stuff and people around SDS are keeping the receipts, so I look forward to people showing you some receipts come Monday.
I would certainly like to hear how Neyland Stadium is so big one more time
Dave Hooker is a terrible excuse for sports media. The “Fake News” he publishes (such as the Fulmer to Coach scheme he created) is a disgrace to SDS and all sports writers. Stop printing his desperate work, please!!!
Dave Hooker is high.
Anything could happen. TN could happen to win. Chances are very slim, but I suppose it could happen. That’s why I never bet on college football anymore. Too much weird stuff happening.
IF I was going to bet, I’d bet GA wins by at least 10. More likely by 14 or 17.
And why is hooker asking the UT fans to show Pruitt some support ? He hasn’t shown Pruitt any support in his previous articles. Why start now ?
Just looking at the series 90-99 UT owned the series. Thats the longest winning streak, I know of that UGA has?
Tenn beat Ga 8 times in a row 1989 and 92-99. Since then UGA is 13-6. That includes a Ga record tying 5 in a row 2010-14.
Overall rivalry is dead even 23-23 with some ties
guess I missed it by a year
89 to 99 don’t add up to 8? but, all good. Haven’t gotten my question answered though? Im going with the longest winning streak for or against UGA
Maurer is starting on Saturday. Point 1 needs to be adjusted.
Love you Dave! You are light years ahead of these dip sticks that look at Tennessee through orange colored glasses. I swannee Dave, they have kenipsion fits when you aren’t as delusional as they are. Keep up the good work.
Supporting your dad is noble. Your only posts are in support of this clown.
Hooker is young enough to be my son. What do you put out for the world to see and critique? Nothing. A class A loser no doubt. Born an idiot, live an idiot, and will die an idiot.
You would know idiots. You and your hero Dave certainly fit that bill. Maybe the UGA fan is correct. You are either Dave or some clown with a man crush on him.
Dave , Its probably against the rules to create a fake account here to praise yourself. Everyone knows you are since70volfan since who else on Earth believes you do good work?
Why do you read his articles? I certainly would not read the work of someone that I detested. Do you know what the letters F O stand for?
Dave, quit defending yourself. We know this is you
What a detestable human being. Disguising himself as legitimate poster to save his job!? Got news for you Dave. Everyone sees what you are. Even opposing fans recognize the pathetic attempt. Do us a favor and move along. Your poor journalism (I am being generous saying that) has exposed you. No fan base, especially one as Proud as Tennessee, deserves or can tolerate you. You are stain on our great conference and hope SDS will take notice. Please just go away.