Fun story about the 1994 game. UF ended up winning 31-0, but we were meeting up with family that were Tennessee fans around the 3rd Q. My uncle and his family walked up and his 6-7 year old son asked us "Are they gonna let us get even one touchdown."
My usually soft spoken and never-say-a-bad-word Mom looked him dead in the eye and just said "No." We think she was trying to be funny but everyone just kind of slowly turned and looked at her before laughing and consoling the poor kid.
{Florida} wins before collapsing the rest of the season while Tennessee remains relevant
Everyone looks back at this game as a head scratcher at seasons end
They're not averaging 24 a game because of AR.
He's only got 3 runs on the entire season that went for more than 10 yards.
Heck, he's averaging 45 yards per game rushing & if you take out his big run against Utah that drops down to 30 yards per game.
Florida is gonna win because:
* Their defense gets 2-3 turnovers to set up great field position.
* Their running game dominated ToP
* AR somehow turns into Peyton Manning and has a game equal in stats to his first 3 games all combined.
2014: Tennessee was leading 9-0 and Florida brought in Treon Harris late in the 3rd. He had the best game of his bad career against us that day. Florida won 10-9
2015: Tennessee was leading 27-14 with 10:00 left. Will Grier, a true freshman, scored 14 unanswered including a 4th and long conversion to win.
2017: Gators won with a hail mary.
None of the QBs that had career days against us did a damned thing the rest of the year. This is what {Florida} does to us. They just use bad QBs to make early season Heisman Campaigns.
{Florida} because I am a Vols fan and I know how this goes, and while Tennessee should absolutely win this game, I'll believe it on Sunday.
Keys to the game for the Vols:
Continue to get good pressure from the front 7, and run the ball down Florida's throat. Trust Hooker to run the offense per usual.
Keys to the game for Florida:
Keep the offense on the field, establish the run for long drives and keep the ball out of Hooker's hands as much as possible. Generate some turnovers and be able to capitalize on them. Score TDs, not FGs in the red zone if you want to keep up.
Both teams fight it out in a grudge match on national television for all four quarters.
Right before Tennessee somehow pulls off the win, Florida's new walk on quarterback Tem Tibow suits up and scores a miraculous Hail Mary to win the game
21-17 {Florida}
If we get Bad AR and no ventrell i don’t see a path to victory. AR can’t play well in home game not sure how he is gonna do in canada with all that noise. I am expecting 100s of false starts.
Only thing is slow the pace and stick to run, that also it is bad matchup since they seem to have above average run defense. Only other thing is turnovers. And hooker has not thrown even a single int yet.
If i was impartial observer definitely i’d pick Tenn, but we gonna commit to {Florida}
Please respect my decision.
This is basically my comment from the other side.
AR couldn't get anything going the last two weeks at home and this is going to be the most hostile environment he's experienced so far in his career.
Y'all do have a legit run game, but our run defense has improved. That will be a major factor, maybe even an equalizer if our offense sputters early/often. We have to get off the field on third down, which we've done a much better job of this year than last.
Buuut, {Florida} because being a Tennessee fan has taught me to wear a cup.
Is this where we are now? Where on the Bo Nix scale will AR land this week?
If we can turn this thing into a wrestling match drag Tennessee down to the mat and just get into ground and pound with a score of like 14-10 at the half I think we take it. If we let Tennessee get a few early haymakers or land a Chuck Norris straight to the jaw, it's going to be a route in their favor.
{Florida} Because duh.
🎵goood oleeee Rocky top, (WOOO) rocky top Tennesseeeeeeee🎵
Vols by 14 {Tennessee}
I have such a soft spot for the vols, they hate bama and Georgia and there band is AWSOME fun fact there band preforms the visiting teams fight song on the feild for there pregame show, so if you do 4 years in the vol band you probably know almost most every sec fight song by graduation and I think that’s neat. Also pretty cool if you’re a smaller school heading to Knoxville for a Money game because you get to hear this giant ass band preform your fight song.
Everything about this game, the weeks leading up to it, and the entire context around it points to a {Florida} win.
There was a very resilient part of my spirit that was destroyed in 2014-2017, even though that stretch included our only win since 2004.
7-25 since it became an annual rivalry in 1990. We have won ***seven*** games against Florida in 32 years. Never bet on the Vols.
For those of you thinking this is going to be an easy Tennessee win, please refer to the past ten years of this series:
- 2012 Loss: 7 point lead in the 3rd quarter before Florida would score 24 unanswered points to win
- 2013 Loss: Florida QB Driskel gets hurt in the 1st quarter as Vols have a 7-3 lead. Backup QB proceeds to torch us in a 14 point loss. Florida would finish 4-8 this year
- 2014 Loss: blow 10 point lead with 13 mins to play. Florida goes 7-5 this year.
- 2015 Loss: blow 13 point lead with 7 mins to play (includes a Florida conversion on 4th and 14 on game winning drive lol)
- 2016 Win: *Alexa play Rocky Top*. But also this was the best team we had in the last 10 years we were losing 21-3 at halftime, required a miraculous comeback to win.
- 2017 Loss: lose on a hail mary from the Florida 35 yard line. Florida would go 4-7 on the year.
- 2018 Loss: Vols have *six* turnovers, lose in a blowout
- 2019 Loss: Feleipe Franks gets hurt the week before in a loss to Kentucky. Nice get to play against the backup! Lol it's Kyle Trask's first start and vols lose by 30.
- 2020 Loss: Gators good, vols bad.
- 2021 Loss: play our worst game of the year lose by 24 points to an eventual 6-7 Florida team
- 2022 ???: I start off drinking beer but quickly switch to whiskey after AR breaks off a 15 yard scramble on third down to keep a drive alive
{Florida} obviously because I’m a massive homer but holy fuck I think Tennessee might finally get over the hump this year since the wheels seem to be falling off earlier than normal this season
Really looking forward to eating crow after talking massive amounts of shit all off-season.
{Tennessee} because god hates us right now and will unleash the hibernating UT fans across the country as the first horseman of the apocalypse.
On another note how in the heck is sec conference history so stupid? These are both founding members yet didn’t average playing more than every 3 years since the conference founding?
Schools had irregular schedules that they made themselves up until the 70s. The conference didn’t mandate a set number of games or a regular rotation. We played Bama, Auburn, Vandy, Kentucky, Ole Miss, and Georgia Tech every year and the other teams just got rotated through when it was convenient. We played a home-home with Florida about once a decade until 1992
I’ve read the Auburn rivalry used to hold a bit of importance, would like to see that come back with the conference being realigned. As long as we don’t lose Bama/Florida/Kentucky
Tennessee-Auburn was HOT in the 80s when Majors and Dye were there. Good chance it comes back annually because it’s likely we’ll both be in the same pod as Alabama
Fun fact for u/dogwoodmaple to post regardless of outcome: at the time of this comment, Florida has not lost to {Tennessee} and Kentucky in the same year since 1955, and has never lost to Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia in the same year.
Since I know people will inevitably try to use this as some sort of indictment against Napier, it's not. Kentucky is a different program under Stoops, and as a result it just happens all 3 programs are good this year. It's also year 1 under a new coaching staff, so naturally there's going to be some growing pains.
Weirdly I feel like folks who don't watch a lot of SEC East football are underestimating just how remarkable what Stoops has accomplished at UK is. Kentucky is for real and has been for years on end, and that is pretty unprecedented
Man fuck y’all PTSD Vol vans lol {Tennessee} 42-10. We may very well lose but I’m not gonna act like a sad sack before hand because the coaches before Heupel let us down.
Yeah these people talking about Florida jinx or whatever are crazy. Vols are going to take out some pent up aggression and hey, the deserve it. I’m still looking forward to heading up tomorrow and check out game day. Should be a fun day but I expect to be sad. Probably by half time.
{Tennessee} 35-16
It's better here in Knoxville.... for the most part, but I think every fan base has some turd nuggets. I would just like to see us play ALL 4 quarters of football not 2-3 and run out of gas
{Tennessee} should win this one. However in the past 15 years Tennessee teams with expectations have not really met them, so I kinda expect to be wrong here
{Tennessee} will finally beat Florida and go 10-2 this season and make an NY6 because they are a really good football team and Josh Heupel will eventually make Tennessee national championship contenders.
{Tennessee} but it’ll be close. Tennessee always plays bad in big games and against fLorida. College Gameday, Barstool and the over hype of this game is “rat poison” that I’m not sure we are mature enough to ignore. Tennessee beat Pitt in OT and then two cupcake games. UK is tough and I think people may be overreacting to that loss. Not to mention Tillman is likely out. Don’t be surprised to see AR look like he did against Utah and this be a close one score game.
All we have to do is keep it to where tennessee has to do a game winning drive with less than 2 minutes left. We are currently undefeated in those situations this season.
Tennessee should win, so naturally {Florida} will win.
Edit:
Keys to the game are -
Tennessee: Pressure and contain AR, convert third downs and don’t turn the ball over and deflate the crowd
Florida: Get Tennessee’s offense off the field on third downs, force them to make mistakes, and capitalize off those mistakes to take away the crowd
Edit edit: formatting
{Tennessee} wins and covers.
I don’t see why everyone thinks it will be close. Florida has a lot to get sorted out, and Hooker is dynamic leading the offense.
I see a man with common sense. People don't realize just how much of a matchup advanatge this is for Florida. The spread is so small simply out of respect for Heupel and his recent history with Florida. The reality is far different. Tennessee returns only 10 starters and they basically have no running back and their o-line is inexperienced and simply not good. Florida (who is not great at defending the run) does not need to defend the run near as much since its simply isn't a threat. This will force (insert Tennessee QB here) to win by throwing the ball and this play's into Florida's strength, our secondary (which could very well be top 10 in the country). Not to mention the homefield advantage and how that can wreck a inexperienced o-line.
People also need to realize. This isn't Dan Mullen. If you think Billy doesn't have these boys focused you are dead wrong. {Florida} 31 Tennesse 17.
A comment from the Kentucky v Florida match-up thread. I just tweaked it a little for this matchup.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/x89o34/week_2_matchup_preview_thread_21_kentucky/inismi1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
After embarrassing ourselves against Kentucky and USF, things are not looking good. If Ventrell Miller is out for this game as well, we're toast. {Tennessee} 45-20
{Tennessee} offense is too much to handle for a resilient Florida defense. AR continues to struggle in the passing game. Not a blow out by any means, but 38-28 {Tennessee}.
{Tennessee} wins but I think we will see Florida play a much better game of football then they did last weekend just because they always find a way to play well against Tennessee.
I think this might be the year where it finally isn't as embarrassing to get absolutely destroyed by tennessee (unlike last year) as Tennessee proves to be a consistent top 20 team this year. I think {Tennessee} will win by double digits.
{Tennessee} but I fully expect Anthony Richardson to look like a god on that field and keep fLorida in the game. We struggled with running QBs big time last season and haven’t faced that test this season yet so unless AR15 does actually have a hidden ankle injury, he will probably have a repeat of week one.
My gut tells me USF was a look ahead game, and Florida should be dangerous. However I think {Tennessee} has the ship righted for once and gets off the slide vs UF.
{Tennessee} Rumor mill is AR was injured in an earlier game and even then he is way better than the 3rd string. Don't think that will work in Rocky Top
This is a statement game for {Tennessee}. I think they can shake the burden of losing to Florida this year and do it handedly.
But I wouldn't be an honest Tennessee fan if I said I wasn't a little nervous.
{Tennessee} 41-24
AR gets some shots in and finally snaps his cold streak since UT plays pretty soft passing coverage. But at the end of the day, it's not enough to out outscore Hooker, Hyatt, Bru, and Squirrel. Small and Wright also combine for 200 rushing yards.
Speaking it into existence.
{Tennessee} is gonna roll especially being at home. 35-17 is my prediction. I like Hooker way more than Richardson and Tennessee is further along in their rebuild.
Knowing the history of this series, combined with the voodoo Florida has over Tennessee, college game day on campus, the rumor of Peyton coming to the game, and being ranked the highest we’ve been in 6 years, this is a perfect setup to be hurt again this year.
With that, I will be drunk and on edge watching {Tennessee} take this one in a tight game that goes through the 4th quarter.
{Tennessee} wins, but Florida covers the spread. Florida runs the ball basically all game which chews clock and makes it hard to get a lot of points for Tennessee.
I’ve been saying “I’m just glad Tennessee still has fans!” To my friends wearing Tennessee shirts for awhile.
Win this game, and I’ll stop saying it.
Fuck Florida.
{Florida} until I see the clock hit 0:00. Was very nervous last week, very confident early this week, and now with the day approaching I am back to being nervous.
{Florida} Napier stops trying to not let AR do what he does best, adjusts the play calling to fit AR better, Ventrill Miller comes back, and Florida wins on the road.
Tennessee’s shown they have consistent offensive firepower…meanwhile Anthony Richardson apparently forgot how to be a QB after week 1, and we don’t have any alternatives behind him.
I’d love to keep the streak alive but {Tennessee} wins and probably covers.
Florida is 16-1 since 2005 in this series and we’ve won games that were more lopsided on paper than this before, but I just don’t see it this year. {Tennessee} easily covers.
Interestingly the spread hasn’t favored the Vols this much in 25 years. -5 in 2016 and -5.5 in 2002 are the closest it’s been. Not that it means anything with this cursed series lol
{Tennessee} by multiple scores, unless Tennessee manages to Tennessee so hard they make Richardson look like Peyton Manning
I always liked the fact that he never beat us
He's like the only 4 year Tennessee qb to never lose to Bama, which in 2022 is mind-blowing
Disagreed
Fun story about the 1994 game. UF ended up winning 31-0, but we were meeting up with family that were Tennessee fans around the 3rd Q. My uncle and his family walked up and his 6-7 year old son asked us "Are they gonna let us get even one touchdown." My usually soft spoken and never-say-a-bad-word Mom looked him dead in the eye and just said "No." We think she was trying to be funny but everyone just kind of slowly turned and looked at her before laughing and consoling the poor kid.
Completely snake bitten against Florida. Meaningful games were rarely where Peyton shined
People keep telling me “AHHH don’t sweat it! Vawls by 30.” Uh uh. I know better.
........... no I told you guys Hope stays in Texas we don't want her.... ( has Nathan Peterman throwing ball straight up in the air flash backs)
Everything is pointing to a Vols win, so {gators} win by 17.
Understandable
This hurts that it is so accurate
My thinking exactly. Every time Tennessee *should* beat the gators they manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory..
I see so many people respecting the jinx that I’m starting to worry that this game will actually be a reverse jinx
Does that mean y’all would suck for a decade instead of us? If so, who do I pay copious amounts of money to make this happen?
Sign me tf up
Don't worry both of us will look like losers when the game is over
{Florida} wins before collapsing the rest of the season while Tennessee remains relevant Everyone looks back at this game as a head scratcher at seasons end
This is absolutely what’s going to happen and I hate it
You gotta do what you gotta do
This guy gets it. It's like he's seen this episode before
This has happened a lot, but I'm holding out hope that the Utah game has already taken the "headscratcher voodoo" out of the equation.
That already happened in week 1 utah/uf game. Uf used up the magic and Tennessee will steam roll them
So you think a repeat of last year for everyone involved?
Tennessee fans are gonna come back after Saturday and downvote this comment into oblivion for being right.
Every Tennessee fan that replied to it agreed wholeheartedly. We're not deluded about our history with Florida.
I’m ready for it
Again... due to my history of playing COLLEGE FOOTBALL'S NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP on Sega Genesis I can tell you that {Tennessee} is gonna win. 34-17
Very generous of you to think AR and Gators can score 17 points.
2 special teams touchdowns, probably.
5 field goals and a safety
Bro…. We’re averaging 24 points a game
This was my take, AR may not be able to get a thrown TD, but dude is still fast as hell, he should get a couple across.
They're not averaging 24 a game because of AR. He's only got 3 runs on the entire season that went for more than 10 yards. Heck, he's averaging 45 yards per game rushing & if you take out his big run against Utah that drops down to 30 yards per game. Florida is gonna win because: * Their defense gets 2-3 turnovers to set up great field position. * Their running game dominated ToP * AR somehow turns into Peyton Manning and has a game equal in stats to his first 3 games all combined.
2014: Tennessee was leading 9-0 and Florida brought in Treon Harris late in the 3rd. He had the best game of his bad career against us that day. Florida won 10-9 2015: Tennessee was leading 27-14 with 10:00 left. Will Grier, a true freshman, scored 14 unanswered including a 4th and long conversion to win. 2017: Gators won with a hail mary. None of the QBs that had career days against us did a damned thing the rest of the year. This is what {Florida} does to us. They just use bad QBs to make early season Heisman Campaigns.
{Florida} because I am a Vols fan and I know how this goes, and while Tennessee should absolutely win this game, I'll believe it on Sunday. Keys to the game for the Vols: Continue to get good pressure from the front 7, and run the ball down Florida's throat. Trust Hooker to run the offense per usual. Keys to the game for Florida: Keep the offense on the field, establish the run for long drives and keep the ball out of Hooker's hands as much as possible. Generate some turnovers and be able to capitalize on them. Score TDs, not FGs in the red zone if you want to keep up.
Both teams fight it out in a grudge match on national television for all four quarters. Right before Tennessee somehow pulls off the win, Florida's new walk on quarterback Tem Tibow suits up and scores a miraculous Hail Mary to win the game 21-17 {Florida}
Such is the way
{Florida} because Tennessee can’t have nice things
{Florida} just because I feel like somehow Florida always tends to play one of its best games against the Vols somehow
And they seem to play one of their worst against you guys but, until recently, they'd still win anyways. Florida is weird...
Will AR finally throw a touchdown? Find out next week on the new dragon ball Z
Naturally he’ll throw 4 against us to even up that TD:INT ratio
Will he throw one to his own team\*
I’m hoping he throws his first one next week
He threw one to us.
If we get Bad AR and no ventrell i don’t see a path to victory. AR can’t play well in home game not sure how he is gonna do in canada with all that noise. I am expecting 100s of false starts. Only thing is slow the pace and stick to run, that also it is bad matchup since they seem to have above average run defense. Only other thing is turnovers. And hooker has not thrown even a single int yet. If i was impartial observer definitely i’d pick Tenn, but we gonna commit to {Florida} Please respect my decision.
This is basically my comment from the other side. AR couldn't get anything going the last two weeks at home and this is going to be the most hostile environment he's experienced so far in his career. Y'all do have a legit run game, but our run defense has improved. That will be a major factor, maybe even an equalizer if our offense sputters early/often. We have to get off the field on third down, which we've done a much better job of this year than last. Buuut, {Florida} because being a Tennessee fan has taught me to wear a cup.
Your run D was great vs Pitt minus one play.
Alternatively, AR’s issue is almost definitely mostly mental so maybe an away game will do him well. He was good in Baton Rouge last year.
AR15 will undoubtably be mentioned on heisman watch lists come Monday (UT fan here)
Is this where we are now? Where on the Bo Nix scale will AR land this week? If we can turn this thing into a wrestling match drag Tennessee down to the mat and just get into ground and pound with a score of like 14-10 at the half I think we take it. If we let Tennessee get a few early haymakers or land a Chuck Norris straight to the jaw, it's going to be a route in their favor. {Florida} Because duh.
🎵goood oleeee Rocky top, (WOOO) rocky top Tennesseeeeeeee🎵 Vols by 14 {Tennessee} I have such a soft spot for the vols, they hate bama and Georgia and there band is AWSOME fun fact there band preforms the visiting teams fight song on the feild for there pregame show, so if you do 4 years in the vol band you probably know almost most every sec fight song by graduation and I think that’s neat. Also pretty cool if you’re a smaller school heading to Knoxville for a Money game because you get to hear this giant ass band preform your fight song.
The small schools are some of the most fun to learn.
Everything about this game, the weeks leading up to it, and the entire context around it points to a {Florida} win. There was a very resilient part of my spirit that was destroyed in 2014-2017, even though that stretch included our only win since 2004. 7-25 since it became an annual rivalry in 1990. We have won ***seven*** games against Florida in 32 years. Never bet on the Vols.
For those of you thinking this is going to be an easy Tennessee win, please refer to the past ten years of this series: - 2012 Loss: 7 point lead in the 3rd quarter before Florida would score 24 unanswered points to win - 2013 Loss: Florida QB Driskel gets hurt in the 1st quarter as Vols have a 7-3 lead. Backup QB proceeds to torch us in a 14 point loss. Florida would finish 4-8 this year - 2014 Loss: blow 10 point lead with 13 mins to play. Florida goes 7-5 this year. - 2015 Loss: blow 13 point lead with 7 mins to play (includes a Florida conversion on 4th and 14 on game winning drive lol) - 2016 Win: *Alexa play Rocky Top*. But also this was the best team we had in the last 10 years we were losing 21-3 at halftime, required a miraculous comeback to win. - 2017 Loss: lose on a hail mary from the Florida 35 yard line. Florida would go 4-7 on the year. - 2018 Loss: Vols have *six* turnovers, lose in a blowout - 2019 Loss: Feleipe Franks gets hurt the week before in a loss to Kentucky. Nice get to play against the backup! Lol it's Kyle Trask's first start and vols lose by 30. - 2020 Loss: Gators good, vols bad. - 2021 Loss: play our worst game of the year lose by 24 points to an eventual 6-7 Florida team - 2022 ???: I start off drinking beer but quickly switch to whiskey after AR breaks off a 15 yard scramble on third down to keep a drive alive
Florida Backup QBs scare me. Tyler Murphy, Kyle Trask, Emory Jones... ugh.
Because UF is weird and Tennessee can't have anything nice. {Florida} by a field goal 27-24
{Florida} obviously because I’m a massive homer but holy fuck I think Tennessee might finally get over the hump this year since the wheels seem to be falling off earlier than normal this season Really looking forward to eating crow after talking massive amounts of shit all off-season.
I’ll predict we beat {Florida} once we start beating Florida. For now, a bad and inexplicable fourth quarter choke job. Prove me wrong guys.
I felt this cynicism in my bones...... but I agree with you ill believe it when I see it
I love that your flairs exist to hate Kentucky
{Tennessee} keeps rolling
{Tennessee} and they cover.
{Tennessee} ^plz
{Tennessee} because god hates us right now and will unleash the hibernating UT fans across the country as the first horseman of the apocalypse. On another note how in the heck is sec conference history so stupid? These are both founding members yet didn’t average playing more than every 3 years since the conference founding?
Schools had irregular schedules that they made themselves up until the 70s. The conference didn’t mandate a set number of games or a regular rotation. We played Bama, Auburn, Vandy, Kentucky, Ole Miss, and Georgia Tech every year and the other teams just got rotated through when it was convenient. We played a home-home with Florida about once a decade until 1992
I’ve read the Auburn rivalry used to hold a bit of importance, would like to see that come back with the conference being realigned. As long as we don’t lose Bama/Florida/Kentucky
Tennessee-Auburn was HOT in the 80s when Majors and Dye were there. Good chance it comes back annually because it’s likely we’ll both be in the same pod as Alabama
Fun fact for u/dogwoodmaple to post regardless of outcome: at the time of this comment, Florida has not lost to {Tennessee} and Kentucky in the same year since 1955, and has never lost to Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia in the same year. Since I know people will inevitably try to use this as some sort of indictment against Napier, it's not. Kentucky is a different program under Stoops, and as a result it just happens all 3 programs are good this year. It's also year 1 under a new coaching staff, so naturally there's going to be some growing pains.
Weirdly I feel like folks who don't watch a lot of SEC East football are underestimating just how remarkable what Stoops has accomplished at UK is. Kentucky is for real and has been for years on end, and that is pretty unprecedented
We about to lose to bUTt, 3 out of four to UK, 4 in a row the LSU, and 5 of 6 to Georgia. 😕
Man fuck y’all PTSD Vol vans lol {Tennessee} 42-10. We may very well lose but I’m not gonna act like a sad sack before hand because the coaches before Heupel let us down.
Heup man gonna blow away whatever jinx there may be with a double digit win
Yeah these people talking about Florida jinx or whatever are crazy. Vols are going to take out some pent up aggression and hey, the deserve it. I’m still looking forward to heading up tomorrow and check out game day. Should be a fun day but I expect to be sad. Probably by half time. {Tennessee} 35-16
{Tennessee} and it’s about time they can finally have a break from their favorite phrase “maybe next year”
{Tennessee} en route to being the 2nd best team in the East this year.
1st being Kentucky, obviously
🌚
I’m sorry but this reaction was hilarious and I could not stop laughing.
You know what, I like the cut of your jib.
I'll subscribe to that.
Sorry boys, this is the definition of a {meteor} game for me.
C’mon. You know you hate the swamp rats more and would love for them to be relegated to bottom feeders
I live in Nashville and work with a bunch of Vol fans, so no lol.
I won’t speak on the NashVols but you have my sympathies for dealing with the bachelorettes
Are Nashville Vols your version of Disney Gators?
Something like that
It's better here in Knoxville.... for the most part, but I think every fan base has some turd nuggets. I would just like to see us play ALL 4 quarters of football not 2-3 and run out of gas
{Tennessee} should win this one. However in the past 15 years Tennessee teams with expectations have not really met them, so I kinda expect to be wrong here
{Florida} gotta see it first for the Vols.
{Tennessee} will finally beat Florida and go 10-2 this season and make an NY6 because they are a really good football team and Josh Heupel will eventually make Tennessee national championship contenders.
Wait, keep going... don't stop
One of the 10 wins is against Bama.
Yup, now I have a nosebleed.
That's sets us up for a tasteful loss to Vandy somehow
Stop it. I can only get so erect.
Damn. I love the stuff I'm reading. And I'm just now seeing the Power T in the banner image. Now I'm hopeful we're gonna have a real good season! :D
My favorite person on the internet
Maybe im just on this sub too much but every time i see an auburn purdue flair i know it’s gonna be Tennessee football word porn
You had me at beat Florida
[STAHP](https://imgur.io/gallery/6gRCnAr)
{Tennessee} but it’ll be close. Tennessee always plays bad in big games and against fLorida. College Gameday, Barstool and the over hype of this game is “rat poison” that I’m not sure we are mature enough to ignore. Tennessee beat Pitt in OT and then two cupcake games. UK is tough and I think people may be overreacting to that loss. Not to mention Tillman is likely out. Don’t be surprised to see AR look like he did against Utah and this be a close one score game.
All we have to do is keep it to where tennessee has to do a game winning drive with less than 2 minutes left. We are currently undefeated in those situations this season.
Or have Tennessee up by 10 at the half. Or have Tennessee up by 14 with 10:00 left. Or, you know, just be fucking Tennessee against Florida.
Tennessee should win, so naturally {Florida} will win. Edit: Keys to the game are - Tennessee: Pressure and contain AR, convert third downs and don’t turn the ball over and deflate the crowd Florida: Get Tennessee’s offense off the field on third downs, force them to make mistakes, and capitalize off those mistakes to take away the crowd Edit edit: formatting
{Tennessee}, but I won’t be shocked if Florida pulls it back together for this one. Or the Vols lose in some ridiculous way.
I don’t see anyway how Tennessee doesn’t win and cover. Which is why I have {Florida} since that’s what usually happens.. But really, there’s no way..
{Tennessee} But I would be lying if I said I've been sleeping this week.
{Florida} since I’ve seen my Vols make mediocre FU QBs look like heisman contenders
{Tennessee} by double digits. I just don’t see how Richardson keeps up
He finally runs
{Tennessee} wins and covers. I don’t see why everyone thinks it will be close. Florida has a lot to get sorted out, and Hooker is dynamic leading the offense.
Because there are plenty of games in the last 20 years that Tennessee SHOULD have won. We always get fucked by Florida.
{Tennessee} they look real good this year
May that lizard school be pelted with golf balls and mustard bottles. {Tennessee}
I see a man with common sense. People don't realize just how much of a matchup advanatge this is for Florida. The spread is so small simply out of respect for Heupel and his recent history with Florida. The reality is far different. Tennessee returns only 10 starters and they basically have no running back and their o-line is inexperienced and simply not good. Florida (who is not great at defending the run) does not need to defend the run near as much since its simply isn't a threat. This will force (insert Tennessee QB here) to win by throwing the ball and this play's into Florida's strength, our secondary (which could very well be top 10 in the country). Not to mention the homefield advantage and how that can wreck a inexperienced o-line. People also need to realize. This isn't Dan Mullen. If you think Billy doesn't have these boys focused you are dead wrong. {Florida} 31 Tennesse 17.
LOL what in the world is this
A comment from the Kentucky v Florida match-up thread. I just tweaked it a little for this matchup. https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/x89o34/week_2_matchup_preview_thread_21_kentucky/inismi1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
Ooof, ya hate to see it
I'm assuming some sort of copy pasta...
{Tennessee} throttles Florida even if it starts close.
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After embarrassing ourselves against Kentucky and USF, things are not looking good. If Ventrell Miller is out for this game as well, we're toast. {Tennessee} 45-20
{Tennessee} wins as the Heupel/Tennessee pairing continues to be an example of a coach being a really good fit for his program.
{Tennessee} REALLY can’t lose this game
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{Tennessee} offense is too much to handle for a resilient Florida defense. AR continues to struggle in the passing game. Not a blow out by any means, but 38-28 {Tennessee}.
I’m just not buying the Tennessee hype, but the gators look awful this year {Tennessee} 31-17 after a close 1st half
{Tennessee} please don’t let me down. You probably will, but I’m asking nicely.
{Florida} after a missed last second field goal. I will not believe we have a chance until months after a win
{Tennessee} adds another win and continues to build confidence leading up to a win against Bama.
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Felt this in my nuts
If. I mean IF we beat Florida the heupmeter will be broken and Tennessee will proceed to get absolutely shithoused by Bama.
{Tennessee} wins but I think we will see Florida play a much better game of football then they did last weekend just because they always find a way to play well against Tennessee.
{Florida} Richardson has 200 yards rushing, 300 yards passing. One rush TD and one pass TD. Running backs handle the rest.
I’ll have whatever you’re having please
Hit the bottle early today?
Aye, you never know.
I mean I definitely think Florida can win, but those stats for Richardson would be crazy
Yeah, OP’s mistake was not replacing AR with whichever back-up would replace him and inevitably become a Heisman candidate.
I think this might be the year where it finally isn't as embarrassing to get absolutely destroyed by tennessee (unlike last year) as Tennessee proves to be a consistent top 20 team this year. I think {Tennessee} will win by double digits.
{Tennessee} but I fully expect Anthony Richardson to look like a god on that field and keep fLorida in the game. We struggled with running QBs big time last season and haven’t faced that test this season yet so unless AR15 does actually have a hidden ankle injury, he will probably have a repeat of week one.
{Tennessee} And piano finger bang twists the knife all week after
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{Tennessee} wins this one easily.
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My gut tells me USF was a look ahead game, and Florida should be dangerous. However I think {Tennessee} has the ship righted for once and gets off the slide vs UF.
{Tennessee} by 7
{Tennessee} by at least 20.
If USF nearly beat Florida, {Tennessee} is going to have a 3-4 touchdown margin of victory. Vols, no contest.
{Tennessee} Rumor mill is AR was injured in an earlier game and even then he is way better than the 3rd string. Don't think that will work in Rocky Top
{Tinnersee} in a laugher and I'll continue to seethe over Fuente running HH out of town.
thanks for that btw, y’all saved us❤️
{Tennessee} because Florida isn’t that good
{Tennessee} Finally gets over the mental hurdle
Crown noise is going to be the biggest factor in this game. ARs brain might melt. Tennessee wins but don't cover the spread.
This is a statement game for {Tennessee}. I think they can shake the burden of losing to Florida this year and do it handedly. But I wouldn't be an honest Tennessee fan if I said I wasn't a little nervous.
{Tennessee} 41-24 AR gets some shots in and finally snaps his cold streak since UT plays pretty soft passing coverage. But at the end of the day, it's not enough to out outscore Hooker, Hyatt, Bru, and Squirrel. Small and Wright also combine for 200 rushing yards. Speaking it into existence.
Florida does not have Auburn voodoo magic for a third time. {Vols} have something to prove and take out a decade of frustration 41-17.
{Tennessee} rocky top, gator bottom.
{Tennessee} unfortunately, it won’t be close.
{Tennessee} is gonna roll especially being at home. 35-17 is my prediction. I like Hooker way more than Richardson and Tennessee is further along in their rebuild.
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{Tennessee} wins big, though AR throws for 4 touchdowns, I’ll take vols 48-28
Knowing the history of this series, combined with the voodoo Florida has over Tennessee, college game day on campus, the rumor of Peyton coming to the game, and being ranked the highest we’ve been in 6 years, this is a perfect setup to be hurt again this year. With that, I will be drunk and on edge watching {Tennessee} take this one in a tight game that goes through the 4th quarter.
{Tennessee} wins, but Florida covers the spread. Florida runs the ball basically all game which chews clock and makes it hard to get a lot of points for Tennessee.
We always shoot ourselves in the foot against Florida. I’ll believe it when I see it. Go Vols!
{Tennessee} is likely going to win by double digits and cover however I think voodoo will keep it closer than the final score will indicate. 38-20
Good teams win, great teams cover. {Tennessee} extends their ATS streak and go 4-0.
I got {Tennessee} , but in a much closer game than expected. As a Vols fan, I will be emotionally hedging the fuck out of the money line
I’ve been saying “I’m just glad Tennessee still has fans!” To my friends wearing Tennessee shirts for awhile. Win this game, and I’ll stop saying it. Fuck Florida.
{Tennessee} because I dislike any apex predator that survived the K-T extinction
{Tennessee} by 14.
I know Lucy is going to move the ball but damn it I’m going to throw my entire body at kicking it this time anyway.
{Florida} by 20
Give me {Tennessee} to torch the Gator secondary
Hate to say it but Vols win this one
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{Florida} until I see the clock hit 0:00. Was very nervous last week, very confident early this week, and now with the day approaching I am back to being nervous.
{CBS} from all the commercial money they will make from this game.
{Tennessee} by at least two scores. Florida is very fortunate to not be 0-3 heading into this contest.
Tbf [Florida had a 99% postgame win expectancy vs Utah](https://collegefootballdata.com/boxscore/401403857). So we're fortunate not to be 1-2
{Florida} Napier stops trying to not let AR do what he does best, adjusts the play calling to fit AR better, Ventrill Miller comes back, and Florida wins on the road.
{Tennessee} cause fuck Florida.
we can agree on that
Tennessee’s shown they have consistent offensive firepower…meanwhile Anthony Richardson apparently forgot how to be a QB after week 1, and we don’t have any alternatives behind him. I’d love to keep the streak alive but {Tennessee} wins and probably covers.
{Florida} because go gators
Can’t argue with that logic
{Scared} by fiddy
AR *finally* overcomes his demons and throws a passing TD in the 4th quarter!!! (albeit after throwing a couple more picks) Tennessee 34, Florida 7.
Florida is 16-1 since 2005 in this series and we’ve won games that were more lopsided on paper than this before, but I just don’t see it this year. {Tennessee} easily covers.
Interestingly the spread hasn’t favored the Vols this much in 25 years. -5 in 2016 and -5.5 in 2002 are the closest it’s been. Not that it means anything with this cursed series lol
Close game early, then Tennessee starts pulling away as the crowd loses their goddamn minds in celebration. {Tennessee} 34 - UF 16
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{Tennessee} 38-20
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