Tennessee vs. Notre Dame

[pcolatide]

I am for anything that gets a nail into Foolmers

football coffin. If a loss to ND helps and I think it, will then I will pull for them. Prior to his involment in the "recruiting scanal" I would have pulled fo TN.

 

[RollTide12]

Helps Bama if TN beats ND

I hope Bama's players haven't given up on playing for a national championship like some of those posting on this topic. Stranger things have happened. Everything that could go wrong over the last two years has and this year it has been the opposite with few exceptions.

The similarities between 1992 and this year are surprising. With a couple of weeks left in the 1992 season it looked like Alabama was going to be left out of the championship but everything fell into place. Then all you heard was Bama didn't have a chance against Miami. You know the rest of the story. I know it's a long shot but I'm not given up hope.

If ND beats Tn they will more than likely get 9 wins which automatically puts ND in a BCS game. If ND loses they can't get a BCS game which opens up a place for Bama if the Rose Bowl doesn't work out.

Roll Tide

 

[TiderinMiss]

So, what are we discussing here?

1. Do we want UT to beat Notre Dame?


...or

2. Do we think UT will beat Notre Dame?


Because, #1 deals more with feelings whereas #2 deals with reality.

If we're discussing #2, then, once again, I believe, based on performances of both of these teams, that Notre Dame will beat UT...regardless of whether or not I want them to.

 

[RollinOnBayou]

UT winning does not benefit us as much as I hate them. We all know ho funny it would be if UT lost by 50.

 

[banditbob]

Then.............le's think BIG!!!!!!! ND 66 Vols 3 :biggrin:

 

[paul02085]

After reading about some of the class things Coach Weiss has done at ND and knowing what a low life Phatty is, there is no way i can pull for the Viles. I hope the Irish mash them bad.

 

[RamaJamaDog]

I sent mine.

If he is not the best quarterback in college football, he is real close.

 

[TommyMac]

It would be pretty hard for me to come up with a scenario in which I'd wish any success for the viles. We're pretty well shut out of the Rose Bowl anyway so I hope ND lays the hardwood to them.

 

[bayoutider]

It's not that I don't want to see Bama in the Rose Bowl it's just that I don't see it really possible. Stranger things have happened but right now I am happy with all the good fortune that has been heaped upon us. Notre Dang is also pretty much out of NC contention so I am going to have to be an Irish fan on Nov. 5. If Bama takes care of business, Notre Dang will not leapfrog over us and we could possibly be the #2 or #3 team in the nation after the bowls. That's not a bad finish for a team that started out unranked in some polls. We will have what we were seeking, improvement and a return to national prominance.

I would love for Tennessee be the best 5-6 team in the nation watching TV while other teams go bowling.

 

[7Tech]

for me its a METEOR GAME

I wouldn't mind to bad if one of those meteor's from the movie "Armegeddon" hit at midfield 2 seconds after kick off. However I gotta pull for UT I'm getting sick of this love fest for Notre Dame. Got sick of it after they beat Mich. and the MSSM (main stream sports media) proclaimed ND MNC's that day.

 

[kcin_4_BAMA]

I will not be "pulling" for either of them......

however, I think in the interest of the Tide, obviously a UThug victory is better. Realistically, ND by 2 TD's. Too much talent, too much of a better coach, too many ND fans, too much deer in the headlights from UThug &, most importantly, too much "higher" involvement from TD JC.


RTR

 

[BrandonOfMetry]

Definitely on Notre Dame's side here. It's one thing to dislike a team for their skill and the way the media has a love fest with them. It's a whole nother thing to have no respect for a team or its coach.
Weis is definitely a much more honorable man than PHATIMUS, and I know it's less likely now than before, but I was hoping for a January bowl game between Bama and Notre Dame and am still holding out. It'd be a classic.

 

[rgw]

Notre Dame's offensive line is the strength of their team. It should be interesting seeing them battle against one of the best defensive fronts in America. Tennessee is practically playing an offense like Alabama's but with a better offensive line. Since the offensive line was the major reason our game was close, I could see Tennessee getting beat by one or two touchdowns if their offense continues their season long (minus one quarter) slump.

Tennessee should try the same gameplan they used against Bama: ball-control. ND's defense is not great, they could really pound it for 250+ yards rushing. Fulmer needs to be more daring in the redzone though. In three third downs against us in the redzone, he called two runs and a screen (had two fumbles in those three plays). Why you don't throw to the endzone in those situations is beyond me...almost every coach in America would have done it.

Notre Dame is probably the third best offensive unit in the nation, and the way they mix the hard-nose run with a deadly vertical game is probably only matched by USC. Tennessee will harass Quinn like no other team he has faced so far, but Tennessee's defense will get gashed a few times more than against Bama because ND's offensive line will allow more time for Quinn to exploit their suspect secondary.

If Tennessee can adjust to no Riggs - which from what I saw, I think they can with Foster - they should run over, through, and around the ND defense. Whoever is playing QB for UT should see good passing opportunities over the course of the game, but I just don't think either UT QB has any confidence - nor is the staff showing any towards them - and they won't make enough clutch passes to win this game.

ND 20 - UT 13

 

[banditbob]

Very good analysis!! Either this Saturday or against ND the Vols D is due to have a letdown. If the offensive struggles continue, then obviously the Vols will be blown out! I think Mr. Spurrier and the Gamecocks will pour more water into an already sinking ship. Remember he beat the Vols Twice in 1982 and 1988 while he was on the staff at Duke ( Mike K U)

Terminology is interesting in football. It's strange that you might have some who would consider the Vols to have a better than average D yet the team still loses to 3 top 10 teams. Would it be better to have a team with an average O and D rather than terrible O and great D? I'll hang up and listen for your comment I really enjoy this board! ND 42 Vols 6

 

[bamaslammer]

I used to hate Notre Dame years ago, I still don't care for the fact that they refuse to line up in a real conference and have their own TV contract (how is this profitable for the studio??). But now they are just another irrelevant Yankee team like Michigan and Ohio State. I like playing them in bowl games but the year in year out hatred goes strictly to Tennessee, with leftover hatred to Auburn. If I have any angst left I just dump it on Arkansas.

 

[memo2u]

thank you mamacalled

finally some one who is rational about bama football. you're damn right to say whatever helps BAMA.my previous post "it's all about BAMA" is exactaly what i said. i hate AU,UT,ND but if a win by one of them helps BAMA then i want one of the axis of evil to "win one for the BAMA".

 

[RollinOnBayou]

finally some one who is rational about bama football. you're damn right to say whatever helps BAMA.my previous post "it's all about BAMA" is exactaly what i said. i hate AU,UT,ND but if a win by one of them helps BAMA then i want one of the axis of evil to "win one for the BAMA".

People are acting like it would help us so much, when it really won't. It may help a little, but one team on our whole schedule, being UT no less, making or breaking us by winning or losing to ANOTHER TEAM is untrue.

To be technical, yes, it helps us.

However, it doesn't help us that much.

If you thought like that every game, you would root for Aubie and UT over teams like Vandy, Idaho, Kentucky, Duke, etc., because if they lost to them that'd make us look bad!!!! That logic is flawed and is actually IRRATIONAL!

 

[formersoldier71]

I vote for neither. I vote against ND.

 

[UAB-CT]

One thing that does help in a UT victory is that it shows the strength of conference.. A UT win shows that the SEC is stronger...but I can't get over the fact that I just don't like either team..If ND had Fulmer I would pull for TN but they don't

 

[RollinOnBayou]

One thing that does help in a UT victory is that it shows the strength of conference.. A UT win shows that the SEC is stronger...but I can't get over the fact that I just don't like either team..If ND had Fulmer I would pull for TN but they don't

I get the thing about the SEC. MY point is that if they play anyone out of conference we should root for UT? No way.