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A couple bloggers are seeing an upset special at Neyland Stadium on Saturday.
Me? Pshaw. That's about as likely as leaves changing colors.
Enjoy the pre-game madness. Here's what they saying about the Tennessee-Alabama game:
- How the 'tide' has changed | Tennessee Journalist
- Alabama Looks To Bury Tennessee and Phil Fulmer For Good | Bleacher Report
- Alabama_Tennessee: Tide's Second_Half Struggles Could Hurt in Knoxville | Bleacher Report
- Alabama_Tennessee: Is Tide Headed for an Upset in Knoxville | Bleacher Report
- GoVolsXtra _ The Vol Historian | 'LATE AFTERNOON, THE DAY BEFORE THE GAME'
- GoVolsXtra _ Drew's Notebook | Five Questions for Alabama
- GoVolsXtra _ When You're Strange | Oct. 25 picks
- Road Trip: Milton RB Williams to attend Alabama
- ESPN _ This Alabama game means even more for Fulmer _ College Football Nation
- A Vol In a Foreign Land… « Curveballs for Jesus
- Reliving last year's Tennessee game, the Vols' spread... and other stuff! _ The Rap Sheet _ al.com
- Southern Saturday: Crazy Threes _ Game of the Week Preview
- The ACC & SEC Blog | Alabama-Tennessee Preview and Prediction
- BamaFootball4Life: Tide Tidbits _ October 24, 2008
- Alabama vs. Tennessee _ The Pick |AlabamaGameday
- How the Tennessee Volunteers can beat the Alabama Crimson Tide, from Roll Bama Roll _ Rocky Top Talk
- SouthEastern Sports Blog: Tennessee_Alabama: 5 Keys to the Upset
- Tennessee Alabama YouTubage
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Comments » 13
blitzshoot writes:
May be an upset, but don't think it will be in Knoxville.
shipperman#280095 writes:
Nope
BAMA: 35 UT: 17
MiserableFloridaVol writes:
Bama 43 Tenn 14
It's gonna be ugly. I hope I'm wrong.
volnga writes:
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blitzshoot writes:
We're close Shipperman. I have it Bama 35-6. It would be great to see UT pull it off, but I cannot see the offensive line stepping up. If Alabama jumps on them quick like people suspect, it could be an early night.
orangebloodgmc writes:
You're forgetting Berry, Rogan, Hardesty ... we have a few guys with some heart. We'll see.
EyeNoEvrthng writes:
Kinda reminds me of the "Manning Days" against Florida ( or any good team ). It ain't gonna happen with a crybaby QB !
stormblast writes:
We could win this. We've seen what happens when the Pumpkin is cornered. He has more lives than a Cheshire cat.
Scenarios-
We lose the game:
1. Then we're a talented team that has been hampered by the coaches decisions on personel and playcalling.
2. We're not a talented team. This would contradict what we've known about some of these players that have been given scholarships by this coaching staff. We're seeing a breakdown in fundamentals. If the problem is this, more than the coaching this season...then the coaches should have stayed on these players like jockeys in the Belmont Stakes. The fundamental breakdowns shouldn't be happening this frequently at this level. If so...they should have been solved after the first game, not the fifth.
We win the game:
1. Then we're a talented team that has underachieved severely during the first part of the season. This season mirrors the last six...but much worse. This would fall on the players and coaches for not preparing them.
2. Our coaches finally put in the right players at the wrong time. Nick Stephens, Lennon Creer, (Berry, if today he gets any touches on offense).
No matter what, the reoccurring theme is coaching. I'm not going to bash Fulmer. But, the common denominator is coaching. I know there are a lot of Fulmer bashers, and Fulmer supporters. I do realize, that Neyland's record could be broken by Fulmer. I say this - Fulmer is not bigger than the program.
If we win today and go on a streak and somehow finish 8-4...does this validate a coaching change? Personally, I believe a change is needed.
UT - 17
Bama - 16.
shipperman#280095 writes:
I like your optimism, but we are going to be destroyed. Also, Fulmer has gained quite a bit of weight, so he is almost as big as the program
98reax writes:
Are you guys seriously thinking this team will pull together enough, by actually running some plays that Saban is NOT expecting, gaining ground with downs and distance enough to stick it in the checkerboard, and keeping their heads out of their rear ends enough to NOT give away 15 yard chunks of penalties? Do you seriously believe our OLine can hold off the tidybowl long enough to give our Nicky time to NOT get clobbered 3 and out? Can you conceive our guys hitting the crimson hard enough to put some legitimate fear into their bammer noggins? Will our receivers come get the ball if they must instead of throwing up their hands to say "hey dude, put it in my hands," and run the thing into the endzone instead of tippy-toeing around like a bunch of ballerinas? Will coach put the hammer down and use the right man for the situation, let his assistants call the game, keep his hat on his head and play to win?
If you are seriously thinking this will happen, all I can say is "Go Big Orange - Beat Stinkin' tide!"
stormblast writes:
The logical pick is that we would get destroyed. You may very well be right. If these two teams played 10 times...Bama probably would beat us by double digits in 8 of those games.
I just have a feeling though. This season has been so disappointing. Fulmer bashers are seeing a light at the end of this journey with the Pumpkin after 7 years of subpar and mediocre football. But...if there is one thing we know of Fulmer...when backed into a corner, he somehow finds a way.
I'm not a Fulmer follower by any means. But, he loves the Bama game more than any. He'd love nothing more than to rain on Bama's parade and the fans that have been bashing him. It wouldn't surprise me if somehow (I wouldn't know how)he pulled this off.
I agree with you - we should get destroyed. But this is a season gone mad.
We've had 7 years of questionable coaching from Fulmer. Wouldn't be something, if he found a way to pull this off today...and begin a streak like last year. Philly may not go out quietly.
98reax writes:
He could have called a press conference to make this statement, "If we don't beat bama, I'll step aside. That's how much I despise the tidy bowl. They've harrassed and accused me for years. They whipped my rear last season. We've been workin' like heck this week to prepare and now it's time to make a statement. I'm putting my job on the line. You fellas write this in your blogs: We win this game or you can find a coach who can!"
That's the kind of confidence and committment I would like to see.
utkedu writes:
The worst thing that could happen here is anything that saves Mr. Fulmer's job. I pray for a win out for the season and somehow a realization by Fulmer that it is time to retire and hand the reigns off to a younger, more energetic coach. I respect and actually like Fulmer, but it is time to move on. Oh well, I can continue to hope.
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