Tennessee: An Embarrassment to the SEC Championship

by bleacherman on Nov 26, 2007 8:33 PM EST

Still bitter? Me too.

This post made me feel better though...

http://www.bleacherreport.com/articles/4031

Check it out and then read the comments from all the pissy Vols fans. You'd think the writer took a dump on their kitchen table or something the way they react. Oh well, I guess thems the break on the interwebs.

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For maybe the first time ever...

...i'd have to agree with some of the Vol fans on this one. I know Ten. lost to Cal, Alabama, and Florida, but seriously, they won the games they needed to win. If we had come out to play against South Carolina or Tennessee (just one of them, thats all), we would be right there playing for the SEC crown and potentially the national championship. But we didn't, so here we are sitting at home watching the game on TV. It actually reminds me alot of 2005, when everybody was talking about how Georgia was coming off two loses, a sloppy win over Kentucky, and was going to get smashed by LSU (I think we all know how that one turned out).

We play in a conference where anything can happen on any given day and as exciting as that is, it is also incredibly excruciating. So here we all are, at a crossroads. We can live either vicariously through the LSU Togers (would you really want to considering that your head coach is Les Miles) and denounce how lucky the Vols are, or we can just get excited about the BCS Bowl game that we are sure to play in. Isn't it amazing though, how in Mid-October none of us would even be thinking BCS right now.

i think i need to stop procrastinating now and get back to my 10-page paper due tomorrow. later. (sorry this was so horribly written, i've been writing crap for 5 hours and i can't really think straight at the moment)

GO DAWGS!!!!

by Dawgb1 on Nov 26, 2007 9:39 PM EST reply actions

Actually, you're thinking pretty clearly

It's just like 2004: Georgia probably was the better team then, too, but, then as now, Tennessee was the better team on the field on the day the 'Dawgs and the Vols played. It would be disingenuous of us to claim that the Volunteers are an unworthy Eastern Division champion just because the Bulldogs had a better stretch run; although I believe the Red and Black would beat the Big Orange on a neutral field next Saturday, I know Tennessee beat Georgia in Knoxville on October 6.

While I believe that lone short-term loss will prove to be the catalyst which leads---indeed, has already led---to many long-term wins, we cannot begrudge the Vols the spoils of their legitimate victory. Tennessee won the head-to-head battle to break the deadlock atop the division.

Georgia has plenty to celebrate this season; we should celebrate that and not begrudge U.T. the berth in Atlanta which the Volunteers won fair and square.

by T Kyle King on Nov 26, 2007 9:53 PM EST up reply actions