Bowl Predictions Redone

First, great game for the Vols against KY. If Stocker hangs on to the ball, it wouldn't have gone to overtime...but we won and that's all that matters.

Ok, so Ole Miss, Georgia and South Carolina screwed me up a bit. Here are my predictions with Florida and Alabama not changing since last post.

LSU 9-3 5-3 goes to Capital One (Orlando)
Tennessee 7-5 4-4 goes to Outback (Tampa)
Ole Miss 8-4 4-4 goes to Cotton (Dallas)
Georgia 7-5 4-4 goes to Peach (Atlanta)
S. Carolina 7-5 3-5 goes to Music City (Nashville)
Arkansas 7-5 3-5 goes to Liberty (Memphis)
Auburn 7-5 3-5 goes to Papa John's (Birmingham)
Kentucky 7-5 3-5 goes to Independence (Shreveport)

Tennessee gets a bump up to Outback by finishing 2nd in the East but have to travel a little further than Nashville or Atlanta. But I don't think the Vol faithful will mind a trip to Florida in January.

GO VOLS!!!

Regular Season Final Predictions & Bowl Bids

Florida beats FSU and Alabama beats Auburn and Florida goes to the BCS championship after beating Alabama in the SEC championship for the 2nd straight year. But Florida loses to Texas. Alabama plays as an at-large bid in the Sugar Bowl, again.

Ole Miss beats MSU and goes to Capital One (Orlando) at 9-3
LSU beats ARK and goes to Outback (Tampa) at 9-3
ARK loses to LSU and goes to Cotton (Dallas) at 7-5
TEN beat KY and goes to Peach (Atlanta) at 7-5
KY loses to TEN and goes to Music City (Nashville) at 7-5
UGA loses to GA Tech and goes to Liberty (Memphis) at 6-6
AUB loses to ALA and goes to Papa John's (Birmingham) at 7-5
USC loses to CLEM and goes to Independence (Shreveport) at 6-6

As my friend Evil says, "Book it."

"D"-pleted

Seems like most of the Vols defense was hurt either going into or coming out of the Vandy game. If we don't turn the ball over, I see us beating Kentucky at Lexington (even with a battered defense) to go 7-5 for the regular season.


GO VOLS!!!

Rebel Whipping

The Vols got their tails handed to 'em by the Rebels. Outplayed on both sides of the ball. OL and DL were being pushed around. McCluster ran away from Berry's side most of the time and when he did run to Berry's side, the Rebels had a lineman and maybe even another guy blocking him. That left Rogan, Thompson and the rest of the Vol's defense trying to tackle McCluster who goes 95mph when the rest of the guys on the field are going about 70mph. Offensively, we had a few key drops and some bad routes/passes and never could hit Jones for the long one. Hardesty was inconsistent due to our OL not winning up front. Don't even get me started on special teams. Basically, we looked bad.

We need to right the ship in a hurry against a struggling Vanderbilt to become bowl eligible and then we can top off the cake with some orange icing at Kentucky two days after Thanksgiving. 7-5 is a lot better than 5-7 from a year ago.

Let's all get behind the Vol seniors this weekend and hope for a big thrashing of the Commodores.

GO VOLS!!!

Not Good

This is just stupid.

Defense!

Just wanted to throw in a word about how proud I am of the Vols defense this year. They don't get enough notice (other than Berry) due to their record but they are 16th (even as 2nd and 3rd team guys played against WKY and MEM) in yards allowed per game as of Nov 10th...only behind Alabama and Florida in the SEC. After holding Alabama down to 4 field goals, the Vols defense had one pass coverage mistake against South Carolina for a TD and the starters let one TD in against a bad Memphis team. That's really it in the last 3 games.

This all leads me to talk about why I think the Vols will win at Ole Miss this weekend: defense

Ole Miss lost at South Carolina 10-16. I think we can hold Ole Miss to equal or lower than 10 points. Crompton keeps the train rolling and if Hardesty is injury/hurt/ailment free, he has a big day running all over the Rebels, who are not ranked in the top 50 for rushing defense. In fact, Ole Miss is not the best team in Mississippi as far as rush defense...that would be Southern Miss at 37th!


GO VOLS!!!