TENNESSEE
The Tennessee Volunteers and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets played one of the best games of Week 1 on Monday night in Atlanta.
After a thrilling back-and-forth through four quarters, the teams went into double-overtime tied at 35.
Fortunately for coach Butch Jones, the Volunteers have plenty of experience in overtime games.
Tennessee scored to take a 42-35 lead and then watched as the Yellow Jackets marched into the end zone to cut the lead to 42-41.
After a timeout, Tennessee’s defense took over, stuffing Georgia Tech’s two-point conversion attempt to preserve an incredible hard-fought victory:
Vols Defense made the one stop that mattered. pic.twitter.com/rwjcuyu83T
— Pick Six Previews (@PickSixPreviews) September 5, 2017
With that goal-line stand, the Volunteers are 1-0. Despite allowing 655 total yards of offense to the Yellow Jackets, the Vols will leave Atlanta with a win.
At the end of the day, that’s all that matters.
Butch about laid an egg! Does this close call make his seat hotter? Or did it cool off with this W?
It doesn’t help his position very much to win games that he’s supposed to win. Wins do feel nice though. I seen flashes of old time management issues that I thought we were past. He was lucky at best on decision making. Players were relentless though. That’s huge. I’ll take the W and move on to next week.
Jones owes his paycheck to Kelly and Osborn. Both played big. O-line still terrifies me on pass block. Got to give it to GT, they,can play ball. Lost my damn voice but a win is a f”ing win! Got to give it to the D even though they gave up over 500 rushing yards…..well everyone except #8 Martin. Who let that fool back in the game? Martin have up big play after big play last year and the fool was starting. Just f”ing shaking my head.
Honestly the O-Line was actually solid all night. Dormady wasn’t sacked or even pressured all that much, and they opened up enough holes for John Kelly to go off.
Run game yeah they was solid but the pass rush got to Dormandy more then once causing his accuracy to be off. Even Herbstreit said how GT was getting to Dormandy with only 3 rushing the QB.
Don’t forget Calloway. He came up HUGE with his receptions on a few balls that would have been too high for most.
He leaped into outer space to catch that ball over the middle. Amazing.
No sacks and no turnovers, and Kelly had large holes at times. I wouldn’t put much weight on when we were stuffed, they held the ball most of the game so we have a small sample size from that offense but we really hotbed our groove in the second half. Dormady led us on a long drive starting deep in our own territory and put six on the board. I want to see him make smarter throws and not get our WR’s killed as much and also want to see less drops. Defense could be a lot better against normal offenses. We won’t know what we have on D until the Florida game, maybe the UGA game even.
As a Georgia fan, I struggled thinking who I would pull for. I just can’t stand Tech and their obnoxious fan base. Seems like I was pulling against Tech more than for Tennessee.
I mean hey I don’t blame you. I can’t stand Georgia sometimes, but I always pull for them when they play Tech. Hope Eason is healthy and good to go by the time y’all come to Neyland!
We will see. Thanks for the well wishes. I’m glad he only sprained it and didn’t need surgery! Tech fans are actually the worst.
Always good to see Johnson and the nerds lose, especially on what amounted to arrogant play calling. The way they both looked Tech had more to gain by playing more overtime. Sorta surprised Jones didn’t go for 2 at the end of the first OT.
If that pitch was made on time, likely a conversion and a win. Tennessee got lucky.
Congratulations Tennessee roster, Butch Jones and staff, and Tennessee fans. This was the best win of the opening week. The good guys won, the cheaters finally got caught, and for that game at least, all is right in the Football Universe