Florida won the SEC East previous year, are coming off 3 relatively good wins and also have the boost of having an 11 game win streak against the Vols.
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Week three of the college football season was highlighted by the top-three teams in the AP poll playing true road games against ranked opponents for the first time in history. No other Tennessee players have more than 70 yards receiving.
Neither of these SEC East teams have been very impressive thus far. Both teams are swimming in equal parts trepidation and optimism, sensing both the evident flaws in their teams and the unmistakable win-ability of the SEC East despite said flaws. Leonard Fournette will provide a few big plays to give LSU the win in a close, defensive matchup. We have to coach them better and that starts with me. Georgia will be looking to extend their unbeaten season and improve to 2-0 in the SEC to move above Florida or stay above Tennessee. Can Tennessee snap its 11-game losing streak to Florida? The Gators have won 11 straight since then finding various ways to make Volunteer fans feel sad including wins by a grand total of two points over the last two years.
“That game definitely opened up our eyes and showed us there’s a certain way we need to play this game”, linebacker Jarrad Davis said.
“It all starts in our preparation, not getting too caught up in the moment, but preparing as you do each and every week, not getting out of your routine and focusing in on the details and focusing in on improving each and every day and, when game time comes, going out and executing and playing football like you know how to play”. Tennessee is favored again in today’s meeting at Neyland Stadium, though the spread has dropped from 10 points to 4 1/2. Again the outcome could determine the victor of the SEC East, as it did annually in the 1990s. South Florida gets a home game, and Florida State, still smarting from that embarrassment at Louisville, has an important ACC game against North Carolina next week. “They’re going to go harder this week in practice”. Florida has had the upper hand in this rivalry for more than a decade and can really shake things up with an outright win this week.
The reason why so many college football experts will be watching this game is they’ll want to see if Tennessee is for real. Let’s put the streak and all the curses aside for just a moment because neither one of those will factor into Saturday’s outcome.
A win would boost morale on both teams and within the fan bases. Jones and his staff must coach to win rather than not to lose, and the players can’t be tight on the big stage. “This is why you come to Florida”, McElwain said. “You come in and I’ve been locked in a staff room watching film”. The Aggie defensive line is ferocious, but the Hogs’ offensive line will hold up just fine. Any time I spend seeing what’s out there, that’s a waste of our time and really it’s insignificant. Nearly all of Tennessee’s starters today played in that game, and have remembered it for the entire year.
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Even though there will be key players missing on both sides, this still will be a game you can not afford to miss. I think they do just that and outscore Arkansas in a shootout in Arlington.
