They are living that 6-6 SEC dream, beating a 7-5 ACC team!
Vandy Ahead in Birmingham
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This fluidity is across the board: TCU made the Championship game with tons of transfers, and both IU and Iowa State won double-digit games for the first time in over 120 years of football (for each) in the same season: 2024.
The lesson is clear: score Top 10/20 transfer classes and HS classes!!
We are Ohhhh, sooo close on the HS rankings, and look even better on transfers.
Congratulations to Vandy. Good to see them earn a bowl and victory
Honestly is a meaningless bowl game all we can ever hope for? With the new playoff system I would have no interest in watching Cats in a Music City Bowl. Last Bowl game I attended was Cats losing to Syracuse about 25 years ago.
I’ll take making a bowl game next season given we play the same schedule.
Ppl need to realize how brutal our schedule was.
Look at the bottom of the league that Texas got to play…or an SMU/Indiana type where they had 0-1 wins against teams that were .500
Then look at ours: 3 playoff teams—Texas, UGA, Tennessee….1st 3 out teams: Olemiss, SouthCarolina…..a top 25 Mizzou(9-3)….and then a post DJ Lagway led Florida that finished extremely strong to make a bowl, a bowl team in Vandy, and a bowl team in UL.
Ppl need to realize how brutal our schedule was.
Look at the bottom of the league that Texas got to play…or an SMU/Indiana type where they had 0-1 wins against teams that were .500
Then look at ours: 3 playoff teams—Texas, UGA, Tennessee….1st 3 out teams: Olemiss, SouthCarolina…..a top 25 Mizzou(9-3)….and then a post DJ Lagway led Florida that finished extremely strong to make a bowl, a bowl team in Vandy, and a bowl team in UL.
Then check out the bowl results. So far, a 6-6 Vandy took down a 7-5 Georgia Tech. A 6-6 Hog team is dismantling an 8-4 Texas Tech in every phase of the game.
Bowls games while a mess have been extremely competitive and entertaining. There have been a few clunkers like Ark and Texas Tech.
Vandy has a good staff. You can tell in their play. Not great but you have to play good to beat them. GA Tech is weird they look great one week and blah the next.
Vandy has a good staff. You can tell in their play. Not great but you have to play good to beat them. GA Tech is weird they look great one week and blah the next.
Talent acquisition has never been a problem for this staff. Coaching them up is the issue.
A&M is the only SEC bowl loss headscratcher. Oklahoma was down several top players and still should have beat Navy, but with their 10 starters or so, they win going away. USC was NOT good, A&M blowing the three score lead was most definitely a WTF thought for me.
Even with UK, they played a top 2 or 3 ACC team in their bowl games while they was a middling, below average finishing SEC team. It just goes to show even the bowl organizers know, a 6/7th place SEC team v/s a 2nd or 3rd ranked ACC team is a fairly "equal" game.
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