How nice has it been this week? After ending last season in the bowels of Hell losing to that dumpster fire basketball cheating school we needed to come out and get that win last Friday night. Although at times it was obvious we have areas to improve on nobody can deny some of the threats we now have on campus. Now we have a strange addition to our schedule and play some nobody before the week we all live for each year.
This week Texas A&M and Missouri are baptized into the conference. You have to give the league office some credit how they set this week up. We have a divisional game and a cross divisional game on two new SEC campuses. Everybody will be watching to see how these two new teams play in their new conference. This isn’t UGA’s first time welcoming new members. In 1992 they introduced South Carolina to the conference with a 28-6 defeat. Arkansas that same year started their conference season by beating South Carolina 45-7 but then loss to their first traditional foe Alabama 38-11. I would expect similar results this weekend. Maybe not by those margins, but both Missouri and A&M will be shocked by the speed of the front 7 and will not have much to give in the 4th quarter. Although they lose in their first games I do expect both teams to play well and challenge other SEC teams each week.
The SEC east is wide open and I think each week we will see a few teams move around as leaders. I wouldn’t be surprised if Florida looks like the leader after this Saturday. After taking a lot of heat this week for their play against BGSU they will be focused and prepared. Their baboon of a coach is the most prepared of all SEC coaches to go into A&M due to his time at UTjr (Texas). Not to mention the Aggies are playing with a brand new QB who will make his first start under a new coaching staff due to Hurricane Isaac’s visit last week.
What does this mean for us? Nothing! Tennessee has its own path to travel and it begins next Saturday. In order for us to have the type of season to be relevant we have to beat Florida. There will be tons of big name recruits for both football and basketball on campus next week, and if Tennessee can get a win there will be a snowball effect of momentum in recruiting. More importantly it will put us back in the topic of conversation as a team who can compete on a high level.
This Saturday I hope to see an absolute beat down in Neyland. I would like to see Bray with 280 yards and 3 TDs at the half and then Worley play the entire 2nd half. We need to score a lot of points and create some highlights, but we also need to get some new guys on the field. Jason Croom , Justin King, and Drae Bowles to name a few are guys that we need to log in several minutes. There are talks about Pig Howard playing, but everyone says he is not in game shape so his snaps will probably be limited. We also need to get our young DBs on the field and what few LBs we have left to clock in some time.
This weekend has an odd feel for Vol fans as we already have a win over an ACC team on the books and now we face a FCS team that we will destroy, but everyone knows the season has yet to start. This is our final week of fall camp. The season begins on September 15th and it is building up to be a night of excitement like we have not had in Knoxville in a while.
GBO
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