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MORE SEC SCHEDULE STUFF
MY FAVORITE ALL-TIME INTERSECTIONAL OPPONENT
Posted: Sun, August 14th, 2016, 4:52 PM
by Beano
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ON MY MONDAY MIND:

SEC ROAD SCHEDULE DIFFICULTY: Sometimes it’s not so much who you play but where you play them. Here’s a quick glance -and assessment of difficulty- of SEC team’s conference road schedules

GAUNTLET (3 or more Testers)

ALABAMA: @Ole Miss; @Arkansas; @Tennessee; @LSU

Tide travels to all the real West contender’s stadiums

AUBURN: @Miss St; @Ole Miss; @Georgia; @Alabama

As if the seat wasn’t hot enough for Malzahn

KENTUCKY: @Florida; @Alabama; @Missouri; @Tennessee

At least the Cats get to go to Columbia

MISSISSIPPI ST: @LSU; @Kentucky; @Alabama; @Ole Miss

Even year slates don’t do the Bully Dogs any favors in the West

MISSOURI: @LSU; @Florida; @South Carolina; @Tennessee

Tigers are probably glad to get away from home

GRIND (2 Testers)

FLORIDA: @Tennessee; @Vandy; Georgia (Jax); @Arkansas

I can never figure out how to factor in Jacksonville

ARKASAS: A&M (Arl); @Auburn; @Miss State; @Missouri

I guess Jerry’s World is a road game

LSU: @Auburn; @Florida; @Arkansas; @Texas A&M

Gave the Tigers credit for historically tough stops

OLE MISS: @Arkansas; @LSU; @Texas A&M; @Vandy

Baton Rouge and Fayetteville + College Station =2

SOUTH CAROLINA: @Vandy; @Miss St; @Kentucky; @Florida

Grading post-Spurrier Gamecocks on the curve

TENNESSEE: @Georgia; @Texas A&M; @South Carolina; @Vandy

Vols caught a break with the Aggies and Gamecocks in a down trend

TEXAS A&M: @Auburn; @South Carolina; @Alabama; @Miss State

Game at Auburn may be a coach’s loser leave town match

VANDY: @Kentucky; @Georgia; @Auburn; @Missouri

Everywhere is challenging for the Dores

GOT NAKED PICTURES OF SOMEONE (Scheduled their own)

GEORGIA: @Missouri; @Ole Miss; @South Carolina; @Kentucky

Vince Dooley is still in charge of scheduling I see.

SEC NON-DIVISION SCHEDULE STRENGTH: In a 14-team league that plays only an eight-game league schedule the Division Champion can easily be decided by who plays the most navigable non-division schedule. With that in mind here are the non-division slates for the six teams (Bama, LSU, Ole Miss, Tenn, Ga and Fla) with a true chance to make it to Atlanta for the SEC Championship Game.

EAST:

FLORIDA: LSU; @ARKANSAS

GEORGIA: @OLE MISS; AUBURN

TENNESSEE: @TEXAS A&M; ALABAMA

WEST

ALABAMA: KENTUCKY; @TENNESSEE

LSU: MISSOURI; @FLORIDA

OLE MISS: GEORGIA; @VANDY

SYNOPSIS:

-All six teams vying for a division championship have one of the contenders on their schedule

-Georgia (@Miss); Alabama (@Tenn) and LSU (@Fla) have to travel to play their cross-division contender which may provide a slight advantage to Florida and Tennessee in the East and Ole Miss in the West

-Alabama and Ole Miss catch a break in the West race with the Tide playing Kentucky and Rebels catching Vandy. LSU on the other hand gets Missouri who isn’t exactly a pick-to-click in 2016

-All of the East contenders have two testers from the West which isn’t surprising since that side of the conference is still much stronger from top-to-bottom

-Tennessee appears to have the toughest non-division slate with perennial SEC Champion contender Alabama in Knoxville and a trip to College Station since the Aggies appear stronger in 2016 than either Arkansas (Fla) or Auburn (@Ga)


FAVORITE INTERSECTIONAL OPPONENT: After my Friday tirade on the Tony Basilio Show concerning the SEC’s cowardly scheduling I started thinking just how lucky we are that Tennessee has rarely subscribed to this approach. Through my period of fandom, the Vols have squared off with Cal, Clemson, Iowa, Miami-Fla, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Oregon, Syracuse, UCLA and USC in regular season series at times when all were very strong.

With that in mind my favorite series of the bunch has been with UCLA. The Vols and Bruins have met 15 times with Tennessee holding a slight 7-6-2 edge. The significance of the games seems staggering considering the modest number of meetings:

1965 The 37-34 Rose-Bonnet Bowl win in Memphis vaulted Tennessee back into the national spotlight.

1967 The Bruins got their revenge with a 20-16 win in Los Angeles and QB Gary Beban went on to win that year’s Heisman Trophy

1974 Condredge Holloway came back from the hospital and onto the field to lead a furious late-game drive to secure a 17-17 tie

1985 The Bruins scored the last 16 points of the game to force a 26-26 tie but Tennessee was clearly as good as a UCLA team that the week before had beaten 8th ranked BYU in Provo. The Vols performance left my lifelong buddies Jeff and Tim Friar and I agreeing from our perch in Z-12 (where we remain today) that we had a “damn-good football team”.

1989 Tennessee introduced the Cobb-Webb tandem to America in route to bludgeoning the 6th ranked Bruins 24-6 in Pasadena. The house-full of guests watching the telecast beamed into my living room via a satellite dish that looked like a UFO -in the days when EVERYTHING was in the clear- agreed we had a “damn-good football team”.

1997 Peyton and the Vols defeated the Bruins 30-24 as Fab-5 Freddy and I were in attendance. It marked my first and only trip to the venerable Rose Bowl and my first of many to Las Vegas.

2008 Unranked UCLA beat the #18 Volunteers 27-24 in OT in what was the beginning of the end of the Phillip Fulmer era.

Honorable Mention: NOTRE DAME: The 1979, 90 and 91 games are some of the most memorable in Tennessee’s long history

WHO’S NEXT: I certainly hope the Vols will always be at the forefront of playing quality non-conference games and recent history suggests they will. My top three suggested opponents for future series would be:

3-Ohio State: The Buckeyes and Vols have only played once (1995 Citrus Bowl) and never in the regular season. People still talk about the game in Orlando and Urban Meyer’s Florida history would spice up the affair even more.

2-Texas: The only meeting since 1952 was the Cotton Bowl on January 1st 1969 and I’m not sure I’m over that ass-whippin yet. We need to settle who’s the real UT however and I don’t think Charlie Strong will break out the Wishbone on us.

1-Michigan: Two of the great college football programs of all-time who seem to mirror one-another in many ways. The only meeting was Tennessee’s decisive 45-17 win in whatever the Bowl was called in Orlando at that time.

MONDAY MUSING: Butch Jones needs to investigate what turned the diving pool green in Rio and apply that to Shields-Watkins Field. That way we wouldn’t have to resod the playing surface in December to impress kids that don’t know grass turns brown in winter.

Caitlin Clark
Posted: Fri, Mar 1st, 2:21 PM
We can now officially congratulate Caitlin Clark on breaking the record for the most points scored in women’s basketball!

Caitlin Clark is the biggest superstar in college basketball (men’s or women’s). That’s not just me being a fan, Caitlin Clark is HER! Caitlin scored 49 points on February 15th to pass Kelsey Plum’s NCAA record for the most career points in women’s college basketball..... [more]
It's a Love Story
Posted: Wed, Feb 14th, 11:23 AM
Jared (the redneck from Roanoke, VA) thought the Taylor Swift coverage would end with the Super Bowl, but this love story isn’t going anywhere. In a game that was four hours and 18 minutes (that’s a total of 15,480 seconds). Swift only appeared for around 55 seconds! 55 SECONDS from the moment the game kicked off to the overtime touchdown.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3ONwhRyugP/.... [more]
Missouri Game Preview
Posted: Thu, Nov 9th, 12:56 PM
by Josh
The Vols did what they were expected to do against UConn. There's not really much to say about that game. The game this Saturday in Columbia, Missouri will decide whether or not this season is a failure in my opinion. If they Vols lose, they are staring at 8-4 and probably the Gator Bowl. Maybe Reliaquest..... [more]
Connecticut Game Preview
Posted: Thu, Nov 2nd, 6:19 PM
by Josh
The Vols are coming back to Neyland Stadium and I am returning after a discretionary bye week. I'll be honest with you. This year it seems like I've been writing the same preview over and over because the formula to win has been the same pretty much every SEC game. I didn't want to sound like a broken record so I needed a bit of a break from that.

I'll start with some general observations..... [more]



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