After sitting down and doing this poll, I actually feel better about Tennessee’s position. The loss sucks but my gosh it’s carnage across the country.
Trying to rank Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, Ole Miss, Florida, LSU and Missouri is insane
Florida arguably has the two best wins and two worst losses
We can no longer ignore Texas has two top 10 wins at home. Plus the TN win on the road.
Also, THIS IS WHY WE NEED 24 TEAMS IN A PLAYOFF
Either that or go back to 2-4 because good luck deciding how to decide who gets in a 12 teamer here. This is going to be a mess. We still have a month left !
Yesterday sucked bad. I’m still not over it, but now you see why they are going to 24 teams.
Georgia will likely be the only team in the SEC without 3 losses.
College football madness is awesome until you’re on the wrong side of it. 😒
But make no mistake, everyone ends up on the wrong side of it in this new era.
Just realized if my sons football team makes the championship it’ll be on November 14th because they pushed the season back a week.
I have hotel and flights already booked for college station 🥴
Went to Gamecocks v. Tennessee yesterday. We arrived 30 min before the start of the game to a crowd at the West gate. We missed Cocky, 2001, and the first two touchdowns waiting to get into the game. The new ticket system clearly isn’t working. Worst entry in 30 years @GamecockFB
If Will Stein comes into Neyland in two weeks and wins will you feel differently about Heupel? Or is that just the way the landscape of college football is now? You tell me.
Wife is still down and out of commission. Surgery consult is Tuesday so hopefully it’s coming to an end and she’ll be better!
Still had to get these kiddos to church this morning though!
I think people need to realize just how chaotic college football is, especially the SEC. Everybody wants to act like Josh Heupel is behind everybody else, but I honestly don’t see it that way.
Every team loses games they’re supposed to win. Every coach has bad losses. Teams go on the road and get beat. Teams overlook opponents. Teams have games where nothing goes right. It happens to Alabama, Georgia, Texas, LSU, and everybody else. Why do we act like Tennessee is the only program that deals with it?
Nobody in this sport has it all figured out. There’s no magic formula that guarantees you 10 or 11 wins every year. You can have great recruiting, great facilities, and great coaching and still go out there on Saturday and lay an egg.
I’m not saying Heupel is perfect or that he shouldn’t be criticized. Tennessee has expectations, and rightfully so. But some of y’all act like every other coach in this conference is some kind of mastermind while Heupel is the only one making mistakes.
Look around the SEC. It’s chaos every single year. Teams beat teams they shouldn’t, teams lose games they shouldn’t, and the rankings get flipped upside down every other week.
My point is that Tennessee isn’t some program that’s miles behind everybody else. We’re competing in the same league, dealing with the same challenges, and playing in a sport where nobody is untouchable.
Judge Heupel on the big picture. Judge him on where the program is going, how consistently we’re competing, and whether we’re putting ourselves in position to accomplish our goals.
But stop acting like every loss is proof that Heupel can’t coach while every other coach gets a pass when their team does the exact same thing.
Nobody is above anybody in this sport. You better show up and play on Saturday, or anybody can get beat.
After sitting down and doing this poll, I actually feel better about Tennessee’s position. The loss sucks but my gosh it’s carnage across the country.
Trying to rank Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, Ole Miss, Florida, LSU and Missouri is insane
Florida arguably has the two best wins and two worst losses
We can no longer ignore Texas has two top 10 wins at home. Plus the TN win on the road.
Also, THIS IS WHY WE NEED 24 TEAMS IN A PLAYOFF
Either that or go back to 2-4 because good luck deciding how to decide who gets in a 12 teamer here. This is going to be a mess. We still have a month left !