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Final from Neyland: Vanderbilt 42 Tennessee 24

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November 19, 2017, 07:38:16 am Last Edit: November 25, 2017, 08:46:21 pm by jbcarol


QuoteAfter Saturday losses left Tennessee and Vanderbilt with identical 4-7 records, it's a given that neither football program will advance to any of the NCAA-sanctioned postseason bowl games.

And statistically and historically, that's quite incredible.

The mighty SEC has agreements with nine different bowls games. Our state's two SEC teams won't occupy any of them.

There are 37 bowl games (plus the championship game). That's 74 postseason invites. None for the Commodores, who opened the season 3-0; none for the Vols who were  trendy preseason Top 25 and SEC East contender picks.

The Season of Collapse continued for both on Saturday.

It's the first time since 2005 [Jay Cutler] that neither the Vols or the Commodores will play in a bowl game.

For the first time the Commodores and Vols will both enter their final regular-season games with 0-7 SEC records.  Forty years ago, when the teams played one fewer SEC game, both teams entered the final week at 0-6. The Vols won the original Rocky Bottom Bowl 42-7.

Is it too late to petition the NCAA to re-label next weekend's season finale in Knoxville as the Rocky Bottom Bowl?

You should neither ask permission nor forgiveness from the NCAA to name a bad rivalry game.
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 Wes Rucker‏Verified account @wesrucker247
Nov 18

Column: This #Vols season ending without a bowl game might be best for all sides involved: http://bit.ly/2AdcmPS


QuoteFour healthy scholarship lineman available to play. The only scholarship quarterback to dress for the game playing every snap with a bad ankle that clearly wasn't 100 percent. A walk-on from the track and field team — a player no one covering the team had heard of — catching passes in the second quarter.

A bowl game? Shoot, at this rate, Tennessee will be lucky to leave the field following next week's season-finale against Vanderbilt in one piece.

Tennessee didn't just leave a waterlogged Neyland Stadium on Saturday night knowing it had just lost to 20th-ranked LSU. The Vols left knowing they wouldn't even finish this season — a season that began with a top-25 ranking — with a bowl game.

Now Tennessee needs to beat Vanderbilt in order to avoid becoming the first Tennessee team to ever lose eight games in a regular season, something only the Vols and Ohio State have never done. And the Vols need to beat the Commodores to avoid becoming the first Tennessee team to go a full season without winning a single SEC game. And the Vols have been in the league since its inception in 1933.

I started covering Tennessee in 2000, so I've seen some great, some awful and practical everything in between. And I think this might be the first time I've ever had this thought in any genuine sense.

Maybe I'm crazy, but here goes: Tennessee is probably better off not going to a bowl game.
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Michael Carvell‏ @Michael_Carvell

Tennessee football injury update: Vols' offensive line staggered by another loss


QuoteTennessee senior offensive lineman Coleman Thomas is the latest Vols' player likely out for the season.

Thomas started five games this season for Tennessee and 32 over the course of his career for the Vols before suffering what seems to be a season-ending injury at Missouri on Nov. 11. Tennessee has started seven different offensive line combinations this season on account of injuries.

Interim head coach Brady Hoke wouldn't update the injury status of offensive tackles Brett Kendrick and Drew Richmond, who have miss the past three games, but he did say freshman quarterback Will McBride will be back at practice.

Tennessee (4-7, 0-7 SEC) is in desperate need of stepped up play on the offensive line this week in its annual in-state grudge match with Vanderbilt (4-7, 0-7), at 4 p.m. on the SEC Network.

The Vols' offensive line entered fall camp as the most experienced unit in the Power 5 ranks with a combined 111 starts between returning players —
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 Michael Carvell‏ @Michael_Carvell
5h5 hours ago

Report: Tennessee WR Jauan Jennings dismissed from team
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UT Vols, Vanderbilt football have same SEC records since 2011


QuoteAlabama-Auburn, Ole Miss-Mississippi State and Florida-Georgia are all great SEC rivalries, but when it comes to the most evenly matched there's no denying it's Vanderbilt-Tennessee.

At least if the comparison is made over the last seven years.

Since 2011 the Commodores and Vols have identical SEC records — 16-39.

Furthermore, both programs have posted just one wining conference record over that stretch. Vanderbilt was 5-3 in 2012 and Tennessee was 5-3 in 2015.

Tennessee is 44-42 and Vanderbilt is 41-46 overall since 2011.

So it's also fitting that the two teams head into Saturday's regular-season finale (3 p.m., SEC Network) at Neyland Stadium with identical 4-7 overall records and both are 0-7 in the SEC.
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 Adam Sparks‏ @AdamSparks
1h1 hour ago

Rexrode: Vanderbilt football romps over UT Vols — Ralph Webb deserved it, Derek Mason needed it http://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/college/ut/2017/11/25/vandy-romp-over-vols-ralph-webb-deserved-it-derek-mason-needed/883767001/ ... via @tennessean
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 Wes Rucker‏Verified account @wesrucker247
2h2 hours ago

Unless I'm missing something, this will be the first time #Vols lose to Kentucky and Vanderbilt in the same season since 1964.
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 Trendsmap Knoxville‏ @TrendsKnoxvl
10h10 hours ago

Butch Jones, @coachbutchjones is now trending in #Knoxville

https://www.trendsmap.com/r/US_KNO_utuzjf
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