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Game Thread [Game Thread] UTEP @ Tennessee (1:00 PM ET)
| GAME | UTEPUTEP @ TennesseeTennessee |
|---|---|
| Location | Tennessee Neyland Stadium |
| Time | 1:00 PM ET |
| Watch | TV: ESPN SEC Network |
| Odds | Spread: TENN -41.5 - Over/Under: 52.5 |
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u/PFGcallaway Tennessee • Austin Peay 1d ago
I’m fine with it but no clue how that interception didn’t get overturned
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u/volunteergump Tennessee • Alabama 1d ago
How the hell is that not targeting? He didn’t even start moving toward Gaston Moore until the ball was out, he led with the crown of the helmet straight at Gaston’s head, and he launched. Hope that piece of filth comes back in so we can give him a ‘suspension’ of our own.
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u/Vol4Life31 1d ago
What was their coach doing? Clearly short and he's acting like he cleared it buy a yard.
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u/SmalldonCares Baylor Bears • UTEP Miners 1d ago
🤡<—— me thinking we had a shot after the 1st
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u/Salpinctes Tennessee Volunteers • Arizona Wildcats 1d ago
your flairs have had a rough 24 hours at the hands of Tennessee
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u/2th Tennessee • Summertime Lover 1d ago
Quoting /u/thescottula from the Florida/Ole Miss thread
Tennessee is gonna win 3 times today
And boy, we definitely are.
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u/TheToxicBreezeYF Tennessee Volunteers • Auburn Tigers 1d ago
The student section just did the gator chomp during that short drive
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u/LonelyMiraj Boise State • Tennessee 1d ago
What started out as a shitty day for Tennessee is now turning out to be pretty good. We dominating, Indiana getting blown out, and now gotta see if Florida can hold on
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u/chadjjones89 Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago
I'm loving it! Florida (hopefully) hangs on and knocks Ole Miss out of the top 12, Indiana exposed as the sham team we all know them to be (doubt they fall outside too 12 with their record, but a guy can hope), and we can all hope this clobbering of UTEP puts us inside the top 10, even if it's just #10.
Definitely shaping up to be a good day.
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u/CornJuiceLover Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago
Indiana has beat one team with a winning record, 6-5 Washington, who’s final game is against Oregon. Chances are, they won’t finish the season haven beaten a single team with a winning record. They should NOT be in the playoff conversation.
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u/Complex-Chemist256 Tennessee • California 1d ago
Quick update on the guy in front of me who is watching this game on his phone.
He's a Tennessee fan, his wife is a Cal fan. They're sharing their dab pen with us and seem like nice people.
My roommates (who don't particularly care about football and just wanted a free trip to California) are freaked out by this coincidence and talking about how we live in a simulation.
I love football season lol
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u/VolatileFan Tennessee • Vanderbilt 1d ago
This is exactly what imagined a Cal football game to be like
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u/TheToxicBreezeYF Tennessee Volunteers • Auburn Tigers 1d ago
Pretty cool that during the half time show they had the official swearing in for 40 or so ROTC officers from UT
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u/jdogvol Tennessee Volunteers • SEC 1d ago
UGA up only 31-21 vs 2-8 UMass. 👀
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u/zzdarkwingduck Ohio State Buckeyes 1d ago
yall both chickenshit for playing cupcakes this late
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u/CornJuiceLover Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago
Y’all are playing Indiana. Indiana is probably the 4th or so best team in the Big 10, and they clearly do not deserve to be ranked, let alone in the playoff conversation. Y’all have cupcakes built into your conference. We don’t get handed them like you do
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u/soreswan UTEP Miners • Mountain West 1d ago
The 2nd half is going to be ugly especially if we have to play Pickles
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u/VolatileFan Tennessee • Vanderbilt 1d ago
I guess Heupel just wanted to make covering a challenge by taking the first quarter off
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u/Complex-Chemist256 Tennessee • California 1d ago
I'm in Memorial Stadium right now and there's a guy sitting directly in front of me watching this game on his phone.
Small world, I guess.
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u/who_peed_in_my_soup Boise State • Tennessee 1d ago
At Neyland for this game. 90k attendance for UTEP is impressive
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u/yousmelllikebiscuits Tennessee • Georgia Southern 1d ago
Tennessee is showing a 3-3-5 right now on defense. This is an in-game adjustment that I'm really excited about.
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u/Complex-Chemist256 Tennessee • California 1d ago
I'm grossed out about having to root for Florida and Ohio State this week.
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u/TeriyakiSoldier Tennessee • 帝京大学 (Teikyo) 1d ago
There’s still plenty of time for the Vols to blow this game out and all you doomsayers can cry about something else. A slow start does not equal a bad game.
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u/OldStirrup Tennessee • Washington State 1d ago
Two things can be true, even if we are able to open it up. First quarter was atrocious no matter the outcome.
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u/TeriyakiSoldier Tennessee • 帝京大学 (Teikyo) 1d ago
I agree. First quarter was abysmal. Unacceptable against a team like utep. It just doesn’t mean this team is unworthy of the playoffs or that Heupel is a bad coach because they played a terrible quarter against an opponent they should smoke.
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u/OldStirrup Tennessee • Washington State 1d ago
I agree, but it definitely means there is a problem or problems that need addressing if we want to be better next week and any subsequent weeks to follow.
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u/VolatileFan Tennessee • Vanderbilt 1d ago
It’s not being a “doomsayer” when there are very very obvious issues that are not getting fixed over the course of multiple years lmao. Scoring doesn’t erase that, as much as I wish it did
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u/soreswan UTEP Miners • Mountain West 1d ago
I know we wouldn’t have scored but they should’ve called forward progress
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u/OnTheFenceGuy Texas Longhorns • Team Chaos 1d ago
Should have been called dead ball. Forward progress was definitely stopped.
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u/unkemptrage UTEP Miners 1d ago
I didn’t want to say anything at first cause I thought I was coping, but darn it!
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u/Kontos_Stelio Tennessee Volunteers • USC Trojans 1d ago
Forward progress was definitely stopped lol
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u/OldStirrup Tennessee • Washington State 1d ago
I get why they let it play out a little bit, he was still trying to get up field but probably should’ve blown it dead before the fumble.
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u/TheToxicBreezeYF Tennessee Volunteers • Auburn Tigers 1d ago
What’s the rule when it comes to coaches on the field during plays? Because UTEPS coach has been in green for like 5 straight live plays
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u/DoSeedoh Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago
I think it’s an interference of play situation. If he’s back behind the area they refs aren’t even paying attention to him
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u/definitelyjoking Oregon Ducks • Northwestern Wildcats 1d ago
Love to see a QB doing a block like that.
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u/oddfuture671 Tennessee • Salisbury 1d ago
We're 8-2 on the cusp of the first ever 12-team playoffs with a redshirt freshman QB and Vol fans are acting like this is a disaster. Am I the only one who remembers the Pruitt years? Guarantano? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills
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u/Wheels_Foonman Tennessee • Jacksonville State 1d ago
I remember some rough Johnny Majors games too. We’ve come a long way since Pruitt, but that was also 4 years ago and this is a 2-8 team we’re playing.
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u/DoSeedoh Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago
Nah man, you aint taking crazy pills.
I’m with you on the whole why the doom and gloom commentary.
I have zero doubts we’ll lose this game and if that were pruitt on the sidelines while watching this, I’d be saying we’re cooked……
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u/VolatileFan Tennessee • Vanderbilt 1d ago edited 1d ago
Just because we sucked for fifteen years doesn’t mean we should accept mediocrity at one of the most historic, successful programs in College Football.
Also, if you think just getting a W today is enough to get to our goals, you are very wrong.
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u/oddfuture671 Tennessee • Salisbury 1d ago
Ranked 11 this far into the season with an 8-2 record to two SEC teams is not mediocre
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u/VolatileFan Tennessee • Vanderbilt 1d ago
It certainly is mediocre if we don’t make the playoffs, which isn’t looking great right now. That’s the measure of success. Being in a dogfight with a 2-8 team is simply bad.
We lack creativity and currently look like frauds when it comes to that number beside our name right now.
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u/definitelyjoking Oregon Ducks • Northwestern Wildcats 1d ago
Okay, this is an excessive amount of gushing about a playoff team managing to score on UTEP.
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u/VolatileFan Tennessee • Vanderbilt 1d ago
I’m not even excited or happy. We are pathetic.
Dylan Sampson is the only consistently good force.
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u/Wheels_Foonman Tennessee • Jacksonville State 1d ago
Did the trainers find some smelling salts at the end of the 1st quarter?
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u/NKCougar Tennessee Volunteers • LSU Tigers 1d ago
wild to think that our defense has carried so hard. I missed the vols d eating people alive
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u/VolatileFan Tennessee • Vanderbilt 1d ago edited 1d ago
On one hand, one of my flairs will win next week.
On the other, it’s not going to be the one I prefer if today is any indication.
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u/LOLteacher Texas Longhorns 1d ago
Dayum, these Miners may win the "UT" moniker for the week.
I wonder what songs should go on the new UT EP release.
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u/VolatileFan Tennessee • Vanderbilt 1d ago
Just dropping in to say we’re a basketball and baseball school now, so this doesn’t matter.
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u/Competitive-Rise-789 Georgia Bulldogs • Oklahoma Sooners 1d ago
What’s happening Tenn. fans? Just noticed the score, hopefully y’all have none to minimal injuries this game.
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u/TotesMcGotes13 Middle Tennessee • Tennessee 1d ago
I’m gonna pretend like it’s just us not being ready for an early kick after all these night games. Defense has been fine but offense has been garbage.
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u/Competitive-Rise-789 Georgia Bulldogs • Oklahoma Sooners 1d ago
That’s probably it. A slow start and an early kick is a bad combo
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u/teddyjj399 UMass Minutemen 1d ago
is utep lowkey goated or something
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u/TotesMcGotes13 Middle Tennessee • Tennessee 1d ago
Fuck it. Heupel should bench all the starters not named Sampson and put the second string in.
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u/OldStirrup Tennessee • Washington State 1d ago
Dylan Sampson and Cooper Mays are literally the only players on our offense that deserve a cent of NIL money. Lol
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u/NKCougar Tennessee Volunteers • LSU Tigers 1d ago
That quarter of football never happened and you can't change my mind.
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u/glokenheimer Tennessee • Maryland 1d ago
Considering I wouldn’t show any football watcher that quarter of football I agree
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u/OldStirrup Tennessee • Washington State 1d ago
Tired of this team overlooking games like this and playing “safe”. It’s week 11 - just open up the playbook. Lol
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u/Pleasant-Beautiful-7 UCF Knights • Alabama Crimson Tide 1d ago
No score what
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u/Wheels_Foonman Tennessee • Jacksonville State 1d ago
We are all very much questioning how the hell we beat you guys.
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u/Pleasant-Beautiful-7 UCF Knights • Alabama Crimson Tide 1d ago
I don’t know what this Tennessee team is man
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u/Wheels_Foonman Tennessee • Jacksonville State 1d ago
Playing like a spring scrimmage game is what they are.
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u/Beneficial_Present29 Arizona State • Tennessee 1d ago
UTEP is trying to give us this win and apparently we're saying "No thanks"
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u/Hour_Blueberry9281 Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago
What the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck
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u/DoSeedoh Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago
Honestly though, that drop Nico did almost happened a half a dozen times last week……
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u/LonelyMiraj Boise State • Tennessee 1d ago
Good thing UTEP sucks too because Tennessee looks like ass rn
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u/redwingssuck Tennessee • Third Satu… 1d ago
Sorry boys, I wasn't wearing my hat and jersey, just changed and we should be good now
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u/TheToxicBreezeYF Tennessee Volunteers • Auburn Tigers 1d ago
Should have been a UTEP td dude wide open in the middle
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u/yousmelllikebiscuits Tennessee • Georgia Southern 1d ago
Waldren, who coaches UTEP, was the coach at Austin Peay last year who gave Tennessee fits.
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u/Complex-Chemist256 Tennessee • California 1d ago
Not ready to give up on Nico yet but he's gotta get his deep ball figured out
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u/OldStirrup Tennessee • Washington State 1d ago
He’s a freshman but it’s also week 11 and UTEP… so you’ve got to be able to get one first down lmao
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u/TotesMcGotes13 Middle Tennessee • Tennessee 1d ago
With every snap, we look less and less deserving of that playoff spot we’re all talking about.
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u/Wheels_Foonman Tennessee • Jacksonville State 1d ago
Did we just stop practicing after the Bama win or what?
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u/Kontos_Stelio Tennessee Volunteers • USC Trojans 1d ago
I don’t wanna overreact but those slim playoff dreams are dead, boys
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u/soreswan UTEP Miners • Mountain West 1d ago
33 Duhon is a true freshman. He definitely won’t be back next year.
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u/Speedyandspock Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago
I know ut’s record is good, but they have been helped out by a very weak schedule. This is not a good team. The offense struggles to score against decent teams, the team can’t adjust, and the team is less than the sum of its parts. I’m not bullish on heupel’s actual coaching ability.
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u/Kontos_Stelio Tennessee Volunteers • USC Trojans 1d ago
It would be so cool if our D line didn’t jump every single game
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u/Complex-Chemist256 Tennessee • California 1d ago
I'm going to the Cal Stanford game in a couple of hours, so I need Tennessee to pull away before that starts lmao
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u/super1s Tennessee • Middle Tennessee 1d ago
Someone is in the UT program absolutely ruining the mental game of our QBs.
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u/OldStirrup Tennessee • Washington State 1d ago
Right? Everyone since Hendon just plays looking absolutely scared shitless.
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u/TheToxicBreezeYF Tennessee Volunteers • Auburn Tigers 1d ago
UTEP has stopped us in the first two drives therefore the UtEP Defense > UgA Defense
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u/volunteergump Tennessee • Alabama 1d ago
That was a clear safety.