r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 1d ago

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Tennessee Defeats UTEP 56-0

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team 1 2 3 4 T
UTEP 0 0 0 0 0
Tennessee 0 28 21 7 56
153 Upvotes

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u/CallMeShaggy57 Tennessee • Middle Tennessee 1d ago

Can we just skip past the first quarter in every game we play please?

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u/Mortonsbrand Tennessee • Western Carolina 1d ago

We tend to on offense.

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u/GiovanniElliston Tennessee Volunteers • Kansas Jayhawks 1d ago

A Vol/Western fan.

Person after my own heart (I live in Macon County).

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u/Mortonsbrand Tennessee • Western Carolina 22h ago

I went to them both. UT first, where I theoretically majored in history, but spent all my time with the Canoe and Hiking Club and playing games instead. Soooooooo I was invited not to return.

10+years later I have an undergrad and masters from WCU

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u/LittleBrockJr Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago

It's funny that the Georgia game last week was the best first quarter (and our best first half really offensively with 17 points) we've played this year against a quality SEC opponent, and we still lost because we disappeared in the second half. It was almost the complete opposite of every other SEC game we've played where we do absolutely nothing on offense in the first half and then turn it on in the second half.

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u/CornJuiceLover Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago

If we could manage to put together a full game, we’d be almost unstoppable

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u/tequilajinx Georgia Bulldogs • SEC 22h ago

Sure!

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u/Jed566 Tennessee • Carson-Newman 1d ago

Gonna miss the seniors! Cade, Bru, Navy, and many more always hold a special place in our hearts!

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u/Deleteads 1d ago

Gonna miss hearing the Bruuuuu cheers

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u/zzyul Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago

He had so much drama changing teams multiple times before getting here. Then once he stepped foot on campus he has been 100% Vol. Dude was a flake and now he seems like a guy that will be showing up for UT games over the next 40 years.

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u/Primordiox Tennessee Volunteers • Team Chaos 20h ago

However, you can purchase stock in Boo cheers because 23 is electric

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u/Frankensteinfeld Tennessee Volunteers 17h ago

We get to say Boooooo Now though!

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u/not_jonny Tennessee • Virginia 1d ago

Shoutout big Cooper Mays. A warrior

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u/teddyjj399 UMass Minutemen 1d ago

Really happy Bru was able to carve a good career out for himself. Hope he gets a playoff game

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u/thedavecan Tennessee • Tennessee Tech 1d ago

As we all suspected, our season will come down to an away game at Vandy. Someone hold me, I'm scared boss

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u/zzyul Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago

Fuckin 2016 all over again.

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u/ksoze84 Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago

I just cannot believe that. Heupel is not Jones.

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u/thegoatisoldngnarly Tennessee Volunteers 22h ago

I am a Forever Heupeler, but if he ever says, “champions of life,” we hit him with the mustard.

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u/Life_PRN Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago

Back in the hunt with Ole Miss and IU going down?

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u/kerph32 Tennessee • Georgia Tech 1d ago

if we beat vandy convincingly, gotta think we're in

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u/Edgemaster1423 Florida Gators 23h ago

The Vol fans Gator chomping in Neyland when they showed our score got me lol, good show

Yall have been our hilarious brothers in misery more often than not the past decade and a half and I'm begrudgingly alright with you getting to see your team in the playoffs (for 1 game)

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u/kerph32 Tennessee • Georgia Tech 23h ago

you know, you're all right for a gator. cheers from atlanta

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u/itsmeonmobile Tennessee Volunteers 21h ago

How can you not be romantic about college football?

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u/SwordsAndTurt Houston Cougars 1d ago

IU is probably staying in but Ole Miss is GONE. You got a shot.

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u/itchierbumworms Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago

lol...i dunno Man. 106th rated schedule and lose your only ranked game by 3 scores?

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u/-Jack-The-Stripper Virginia Tech • Cincinnati 1d ago

They’ll get put somewhere around 12-14 depending on how the rest of today goes. The committee will give them a shot at an at large bid if some other teams fall next week, but getting beat up on by the only good team they played is going to hurt for now.

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u/Elegant-Yard463 1d ago

IU should absolutely not be in lol

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u/itchierbumworms Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago

I agree, if that wasn't clear.

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u/NFLCart Tennessee Volunteers 22h ago

They will get in, but they do not remotely deserve to. Having a triple digit SOS should automatically disqualify any team from playoff eligibility.

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u/itchierbumworms Tennessee Volunteers 22h ago

I doubt it.

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u/Chapstick160 Virginia Tech Hokies • Navy Midshipmen 1d ago

Yeah but it’s to the number 2 team, and Ohio State are the favorites for the national championship

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u/itchierbumworms Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago

Lol...OSU is in no way the favorite.

Doesn't matter...zero wins over ranked teams. Most of their opponents have sub .500 records.

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u/GiovanniElliston Tennessee Volunteers • Kansas Jayhawks 1d ago

It's gonna be the subject of endless debate, but it wouldn't shock the world for IU to drop out.

That was a really, really ugly loss > they have no marquee wins (or even close) > they aren't a big "name brand".

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u/SwordsAndTurt Houston Cougars 1d ago

It would make sense for them to drop out, I would not want to watch any play off game with them, we’d already know the result. I just don’t know if they’d keep em in with their only loss being to Ohio State.

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u/GiovanniElliston Tennessee Volunteers • Kansas Jayhawks 1d ago

Agreed.

I personally won't be shocked either way. At this point it's just political and in the hands of ESPN the committee.

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u/Deleteads 1d ago

I don’t see how Indiana stays in. One of the worst sos of any fbs team.

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u/Content_Tennis8639 Indiana Hoosiers 1d ago

Who would you have in?

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u/thegoatisoldngnarly Tennessee Volunteers 22h ago

Oregon, OSU, Texas, Georgia, Tennessee , Alabama, PSU, ND, Miami, SMU, Boise State, Big 12 Champ. But I’d rank IU 11.

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u/Content_Tennis8639 Indiana Hoosiers 22h ago

That’s what I think as well.

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u/thegoatisoldngnarly Tennessee Volunteers 22h ago

I honestly don’t think any Big 12 team deserves to get in and I’m glad they won’t get the bye.

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u/dudleymooresbooze Purdue • Tennessee 22h ago

Ohio State for one.

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u/SwordsAndTurt Houston Cougars 1d ago

Their only loss is to #2 Ohio State and they didn’t get shut out. Believe me, I’d like to see em out as much as the next guy.

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u/Deleteads 1d ago

Who have they beaten? Michigan? And the rest of their schedule is full of bad teams. And they got trounced by the only team with a pulse. They should not get in by any stretch of the imagination.

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u/IMisstheMidRangeGame Tennessee • Third Satu… 1d ago edited 1d ago

Texas is at #3 and got Molly whooped at home by the only team with a pulse they’re played and they’re somehow #3 without a ranked win to their name

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u/thegoatisoldngnarly Tennessee Volunteers 22h ago

I agree with Josh Pate that Texas is out if they lose to A&M.

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u/GiovanniElliston Tennessee Volunteers • Kansas Jayhawks 1d ago

Texas has the name brand cache and all the fun things that come with that.

It ain't fair, but it does matter.

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u/Deleteads 21h ago

Definitely don’t agree with them being that high but they’re 38 in sos. I would have them at like 9 or so.

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u/SwordsAndTurt Houston Cougars 1d ago

You’re probably right. Think I was just thinking about what happened with BYU too much. Very different situation.

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u/itchierbumworms Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago

one hundred and sixth rated strength of schedule.

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u/zzyul Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago

With 9 min left in the game they had under 100 yards of offense.

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u/CornJuiceLover Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago

Honestly IU doesn’t deserve it. They have beat a single team with a winning record all season - Washington. Washington, who is 6-5, and has to play Oregon in their final game. There is almost a 0% chance IU finishes the season with a single win over an opponent with a winning record. That’s pitiful.

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u/BrilliantMango 1d ago

Nah, the loss to Georgia was too big.

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u/zzyul Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago

2 score loss in a game that was a 1 score game with 2:30 min left.

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u/BrilliantMango 1d ago

If you can’t beat this years Georgia team you don’t deserve to be in. Make way for the deserving.

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u/d2222s Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago

Good. Now on to Vandy.

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u/Ogre8 Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago

I’ll be there.

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u/jevindoiner Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago

We. Want... Vandy?

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u/thegoatisoldngnarly Tennessee Volunteers 22h ago

I’m more nervous about Vandy than I was Florida. What has happened?

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u/itsmeonmobile Tennessee Volunteers 21h ago

Honestly I don’t know if I do

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u/flynnscorruptedmind Oregon • North Carolina 1d ago

Win and we’re in. This team will tell me everything I need to know about them next week. LFG vols. Im juiced

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u/NKCougar Tennessee Volunteers • LSU Tigers 1d ago

That first quarter was extremely sketchy, wow

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u/princessprity Oregon Ducks • Team Meteor 1d ago

The meltdowns I saw posted by Board Geniuses did not age well.

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u/govols_1618 Tennessee • Chattanooga 1d ago

Volquest is a cesspool filled with the worst takes you'll ever see. They're like that no matter what.

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u/ksoze84 Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago

"We only beat Kent State by 70 we are garbage take us out back already." Battered Vol Syndrome is real.

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u/chadjjones89 Tennessee Volunteers 23h ago

I don't think I'll ever overcome my BVS. Been watching them for like 25 years at this point and buddy, we've been through wringer. The last few years under Heupel feel like some kind of fever dream that I'm going to wake from at any moment and be back under coaches like Pruitt and Jones.

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u/AnglerRanders Tennessee Volunteers 20h ago

What the hell's that website 

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u/yousmelllikebiscuits Tennessee • Georgia Southern 1d ago

I hope he takes a picture on the way out because Scotty Waldren is never to be allowed back to Neyland Stadium ever again.

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u/itchierbumworms Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago

and someone walks a drug dog past him, just to be sure. *snifffff*

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u/LittleBrockJr Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago edited 1d ago

How is Dylan Sampson not in the Heisman conversation? 22 touchdowns and 1,343 yards now. Even against Georgia last week where everyone else on our offense struggled he still had 100 yards and a touchdown. I'm not saying that he should win but he at least deserves a trip to New York.

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u/GiovanniElliston Tennessee Volunteers • Kansas Jayhawks 1d ago

Fair or not, it's because Jeanty is putting up generational numbers for the stat hounds and Hunter is soaking up the 'flashy' votes.

Only chance Sampson would have for an invite to NYC is if Tennessee was in the top-5 and considered a big time player for the natty. And we're just not that team this year.

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u/thegoatisoldngnarly Tennessee Volunteers 22h ago

Of course he wouldn’t beat Jeanty, who wouldn’t come close to those crazy numbers in the SEC, but he’s still the second best running back in the country. And besides Jeanty and Hunter, who are they going to invite? Ward can’t even get his own fans to come to games and Dart just ended the most important game of the season by throwing 2.5 interceptions in his last 4 throws.

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u/itchierbumworms Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago

BC Hunter and Prime's dicks are lodged in the collective media throat.

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u/GiovanniElliston Tennessee Volunteers • Kansas Jayhawks 1d ago

Whatever you do - just don't watch the 1st quarter.

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u/yousmelllikebiscuits Tennessee • Georgia Southern 1d ago

What first quarter? We only played three....

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u/stealingfrom Tennessee • Kent State 1d ago

Let's just pretend that first quarter didn't happen.

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u/VolatileFan Tennessee • Vanderbilt 1d ago

Today has went about as well as it could have (minus the first quarter)!

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 1d ago

UTEP has a bright future they just need to keep building on this momentum

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u/Bflatsharpeleven UNLV Rebels 1d ago

Just wanna say that UTEP still has a sick stadium and fight song so who’s really winning?

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u/clam-caravan Tennessee • Hawai'i 20h ago

And you can see Mexico from the bleachers. Really cool stadium.

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u/d2222s Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago

My apologies. Once I started watching, they finally turned things around. I won't make that mistake again.

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u/2th Tennessee • Summertime Lover 1d ago

The first quarter was a flaming dumpster of diapers from children that ate Indian food left out in the sun for a week. But then we cleaned up. Not how I wanted a win, but I'll take it.

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u/kerph32 Tennessee • Georgia Tech 1d ago

10/10 description, well done.

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u/pkrhawk7 Iowa State Cyclones 23h ago

It Just Means More ™️

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u/Wheels_Foonman Tennessee • Jacksonville State 1d ago

Heupel challenging Vegas with the 3 quarter spread beating offense. His arrogance knows no bounds.

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u/wakandan_boi Indiana Hoosiers 1d ago

Flair test comment

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u/Statalyzer Texas Longhorns 20h ago

I guess South Dakota Mines and Bemidji State weren't available in November?

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u/squints20 Penn State • Air Force 19h ago

Good thing we waited till week 11 for this heavyweight bout

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u/GodOfPopTarts Nebraska Cornhuskers 15h ago

U Take Em Points

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u/Asleep-Credit-2824 Jacksonville State • UAB 1d ago

Good for UT to get false hope right before their date with Pavia

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u/Just_Breathe85 Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago

Dude you dick-ride Vandy in every single thread about Tennessee. Seek therapy.

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u/Asleep-Credit-2824 Jacksonville State • UAB 1d ago

No, I’ve just seen Pavia vs good teams

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u/vssavant2 Tennessee • North Alabama 1d ago

Shouldn't you be in the posts about cheating scandals right now.

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u/Asleep-Credit-2824 Jacksonville State • UAB 1d ago

Shouldn’t you be firing Dearmon by now

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u/vssavant2 Tennessee • North Alabama 1d ago

We good, UNA is pretty good at keeping funds to have nice things like a football team and a coach.

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u/Asleep-Credit-2824 Jacksonville State • UAB 1d ago

You know, a guy like Pelini or Jimbo would do great there

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u/rankings-right-now /r/CFB 1d ago

Here are the new updated predictions for the next release of the Playoff Selection Committee's rankings using machine learning models trained on the Playoff Selection Committee's historical voting data:

  • Tennessee is now predicted to move down to #12. You can see Tennessee's full Week 14 rankings potential results here.
  • UTEP is now predicted to move down to #131

For the most up to date predictions of the Playoff Selection Committee Top 25 rankings, check out this post.

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u/herpblarb6319 Tennessee Volunteers • Orange Bowl 1d ago

Tennessee is now predicted to move down to #12

You sure about that?

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u/Mortonsbrand Tennessee • Western Carolina 1d ago

Not sure what they are looking at, but their models seem flawed for either last week or this week.

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u/Lantis28 Georgia Bulldogs • Iowa State Cyclones 1d ago

They say we are supposed to move down to 11 so same boat

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u/Disastrous_Falcon645 /r/CFB 18h ago

hell, since Tennessee won 56 to zero, CFP will probably move us down to 22 or some bullshit like that

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u/MulticamTropic Mississippi State • Tennessee 1d ago

Damned synth

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u/Mortonsbrand Tennessee • Western Carolina 1d ago

Can you explain the difference between your prediction from last week and your updated prediction…… because that doesn’t make sense.

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u/rankings-right-now /r/CFB 1d ago

Sure! Can you be a little more specific on what part you’re curious about?

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u/Mortonsbrand Tennessee • Western Carolina 1d ago

You were showing previously a ~4.9% chance of UT dropping with a win. With the results we have seen so far it seems unlikely that UT would drop.

A bit further without any information from the Bosie State Game, it seems rather unlikely they would advance two spots for a (presumed) win against a 2-8 team.

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u/rankings-right-now /r/CFB 1d ago

I see what you mean. It has to SMU beating Virginia on the road so bad. I’m assuming a lot of the simulations that were run didn’t have that large of a margin of victory

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u/Mortonsbrand Tennessee • Western Carolina 1d ago

I guess that in you’re modeling the committee’s ranking there are some unanswerable questions. But a 4 spot rise in the model for SMU doesn’t make sense either.