But that was a call intended to not lose by as much.

This game was not over.  The call to go for the field goal conceded that it was.

If our young team overcomes its limitations
and crushes the expectations
of a seventeen point spread
and defeats the number three team in the country,
the record books will show this achievement
as a victory over Ole Miss.

 

to come by this game but the defense is not losing it's poise under pressure.
It's a shame OU has such a reliable kicker.

May your career at Tennessee be long and successful.

A few years ago I made a conscious decision to pay a lot less attention to UT sports due to some new major life obligations (kids and a pretty demanding job).  So I pretty much suck as a fan anyway these days.  But still I feel like the college football I fell in love with so many years ago is leaving me anyway.  I long for the old days.  I was even one of the few people who liked the old bowl arrangements.  That the SEC could decide to strip away our biggest rivalry because it is inconvenient for superconference play that I never saw the need for in the first place just goes right along with almost every other change as colleges chase the entertainment dollars in order to fund the chase of the entertainment dollars.

Cancel the Alabama series?  I taught my long departed dog to bark and growl whenever someone said, "Bama!"  That game was always a big deal even to my dog.  It's one of the few that still at least mean something other than a W or L and a check to see how that impacted the computer rankings.

Bama sucks.  Cancelling Bama sucks more.

The guy shoveling snow into the shopping into a shopping start or the guy who can't figure out how to turn her phone sideways?

Vertical Video Syndrome is so annoying.

Watching, not listening as I'm at a sports bar.

Manziel is tiny by comparison.  These yahoos that want the Texans to draft Manziel should be banned as fans.

It's like someone finally told them that Auburn has no defense.  And while the Tigers are scoring, this balanced attack stuff isn't their forte.  They're going to need more if Winston goes in gear. 

Run baby run.

As much as I enjoyed the Longhorns being humiliated, the Ducks deserved a much better game.

These bowl pairings remind me if the old days when bad deals were signed weeks before the season ended.

Including the final score.  8 in a row.

Given the speed he would have to obtain and the mass carried, upon taking flight Santa Claus would immediately create a black hole and destroy the Earth.

Yes. 

Gotta give credit for that goal line effort and stop.

I have eager seen.

Hope we hold now.

Nice.

would really make me happy.

Bammerfan is just a ruse started under the Stallings regime and continued to this day to trick us into believing that not all Crimson Tide followers are obnoxious tree killing knuckle draggers who pollute the otherwise pristine paradise of SEC football.

Oh yes, he may talk like a reasonable, enjoyable fellow football fan, but in reality is a diabolically constructed computer avatar designed to trap the unwary.  I wouldn't be surprised if his real existence doesn't reside somewhere deep within some highly classified government agency. 

And don't click on any of the links he posts from Russia Today.

which for some reason decided not to use it.

say it out loud.  Even stand in front of the mirror and say it 3 times.  No hook handed maniac will come to his rescue because Steve Spurrier is Butch's beyotch.

Despite the showing in the Georgia game I did not see this coming.

A loss is a loss. That's the only thing Tennessee is taking away from this game. I just can't care about anything else anymore. I'm too weary to keep looking for silver linings.

with the big boys?  Don't let your weariness fool you.  This game means a lot more than just that we lost.

fought with so much effort.  Under the circumstances, this loss proved the guys have more in them than people thought.

nm

NM

Dare we dream?

Idi Amin isn't' so tough after all.