July 6, 2025 • 16 mins
Josh Heupel no longer has Nico Iamaleava at the helm. He's got former UCLA and Appalachian State QB Joey Aguilar running the offense. But the Vols have enough to return to the CFP with another solid year in the SEC.
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(00:00):
Let's talk about the Tennessee Volunteers and why I don't think
it's out of the question for UT to return to the College
Football Playoff. What's up kinfolk, it's RJ
(00:21):
Young. I am not on a step mill.
If this is your first time watching, adapt and respond.
Thank you for joining us here. We talk college football year
round. If that is something you're
into, go ahead and hit that subscribe button.
Like this video and answer the question and the comments below.
Do you think that Tennessee can return to the College Football
Playoff in 2025? And I have one mind blowing stat
(00:45):
that can tell you right away whether or not that's going to
happen. Or I should say, continue to
watch this step because as the step shows up, you're going to
see how good or how bad Tennessee is.
First, let's acknowledge that Josh Hypo has been doing one
hell of a job at the University of Tennessee.
I could not be more proud of a guy that played quarterback at
(01:06):
Oklahoma, won Oklahoma's last national championship, grew up
as an offensive coordinator at Oklahoma, had a falling out with
Bob Stoops, and then made it happen in Central Florida and
made it happen at, yes, the University of Tennessee.
Hypel is one of the great dudes we got in all the college
football. And I've said this before, he
(01:26):
helped me personally when I was very young, beat writer, just
trying to get my bearings and understand when you're covering
A-Team like Oklahoma, you're essentially covering a
professional team. And that is how the public
treats. It's how fans treat, it's how
the coaches treat it well. Also talking about teenagers and
high school and the NFL draft and Hypo would take a little bit
(01:46):
more time with me as I got to know him to explain things or to
fill me in. Just stuff on background from
time to time as well as just talk ball with me.
I still give a lot of the wisdomthat he gave to me to other
players when it's applicable because it really is that cool.
He's a dude that plays the numbers game.
What's the box look like? What's the box count like?
(02:08):
Football is not a difficult sport.
He would say, take what the defense is giving you and if
that means throwing the ball down the field, by all means let
it RIP. If that means a light box, run
the football. And I think people forgot this,
but with Hinden Hooker and the outstanding 2022 season they
had, and I don't, I never forgotthat, But you could see that was
(02:32):
a team that was very happy to gofast and take the top off the
defense because that's what the defense is willing to give them.
And more to the point, that's where their strengths were.
Like, if you don't have the ability to take what the defense
is giving you, let's say they'regiving you a light box, but you
can't run the ball. You still got to throw it.
You got to do what's best for you.
I think Colorado in this manner,right?
Colorado couldn't run the ball for Jack last year, worst
rushing team in all the FBS and they had to throw the ball, move
(02:55):
the ball. So they did last year.
You couldn't really count on Tennessee to throw the ball, to
move the ball. It was a run oriented offense
and it needed to be because NikoYamaliaba just couldn't see it.
They were match protect with twoguys and routes and a lot of a
lot of the time against the schedule that ain't no Gimme,
but looks more or less the same going into this year.
So he returns Tim Banks, which is great, right?
(03:17):
You got your defense coordinatorwho's Royals award finalist and
helped guide Tennessee to its first College Football Playoff
appearance ever. You're also talking about having
to do this without Niko Yamaliaba, who staged the first
holdout in college football history when refused showed up
(03:39):
to practice or he would enter the portal if he did not get a
raise on the two point plus million that he was going to get
paid this year. And they said kick rocks.
And he basically does what on paper looks like a trade with
UCLA with Joey Aguilar going into the portal after Niko
Yamaliava goes in Portland, UCLAcomes out at Tennessee.
(03:59):
But for all of us that are in there, we know this is a mess.
And frankly, it was a mess we all love to watch.
Like the numbers show this too. We were wrapped with our
attention on what Niko Yamaliavain Tennessee we're doing.
And more people are on Tennesseeside with this.
You're not going to have playersthat hold programs like
Tennessee hostage because they want to get a raise, especially
(04:21):
when you didn't do anything thatpeople believe you deserves a
raise. And let's not be quiet here.
The SEC will pay you for winninglike they they're not going to
be shy if you over perform. They will pay you like you over
perform because in the South andat least nothing else.
Want to talk about football? We understand what moves the
needle and we're willing to pay for it to keep moving if that
(04:42):
wouldn't need to happen. But we're not going to overpay
for something you didn't do. So he lands at UCLA, Joey
Aguilar comes back, and now Hypohas to hold together a program
that looked like it's going to take a step back.
And then you pump the brakes andlook at what they got in the in
the cupboard there. Joey Aguilar threw for 6760
(05:02):
yards and 56 T DS over the last two years.
I realized that was at Appalachian State.
But when he's on, he can sling it, he can run this offense.
It'll be OK. Yes.
I'm not really going to entertain Jake Mecklinger as
starting quarterback. I think Joey Aguilar showed up
and he's getting paid a 7 figuresalary to play quarterback week
1 and to be good by Week 3. We'll get to that.
(05:25):
I think the chief concern for Tennessee right now has to be
the offensive line. You return Lance Heard which
straight right, one of the best left tackles in the game.
You add Sam Pendleton as it transfers, going to play some
guard for you from Notre Dame. Now you got to make sure that
you're good everywhere else. They had a really great
offensive line, particularly against a in in run blocking and
(05:46):
trying to find a replacement forCooper May is just going to be
really difficult for anybody, let alone Tennessee.
And then Dylan Sampson's gone, he of the 14191 yard 22 rushing
scores last year. They do have Peyton Lewis,
Deshawn Bishop and Star Thomas, and we expect at least two of
those guys to get the bulk of the carries.
If not one of those guys. My money is on Deshawn Bishop.
(06:08):
I think that dudes a stud. There's a lot of people think
Peyton Lewis is the guy and StarThomas didn't show up here to
not play. I think they got dudes over
there on the wide receiver side.Losing Squirrel White doesn't
hurt. Doesn't help you, right?
But Chris Braswell needs to stepup getting him in, and I think
it's his turn to be the number one.
Let's see what he can do. Let's see what kind of
partnership and get on the outside might be the weakest
(06:29):
position in that offense this year.
Defensively, they're still good.They're not as stacked as they
were last year, but they're still very, very good.
Like the three best players on the University of Tennessee
roster. I think all play defense.
Jermont McCoy obviously almost knocked down the microphone.
Jermont McCoy obviously was their best DB last year with 13
(06:50):
passes defended. Passes defended is accounting
for pass breakups and I NTS he had four interceptions last
year. Not too damn shabby.
And then Bryson Eason and JoshuaJosephs combined for like 16
tackles, a lot for loss in threesacks.
But again, they weren't James Pierce, right?
Like they, they, they're going to have to earn it this year in
(07:12):
a way that they haven't had to last year.
But I still think super talentedand they can be great for you.
The schedule looks almost the same from last year, just in
reverse. For all the games that matter.
There's one big rub, though. Open up SEC play against Georgia
Week 3. Yikes.
(07:33):
It's a program that Tennessee hasn't beaten since 2016.
It's a program that really is the benchmark for everybody in
the SEC. You can go get a win against
them. You can get a win against
anybody. That's why the Ole Miss was so
frustrated to miss the playoff last year, because they knew
they were good. They beat Georgia.
Florida knew it was good at damnnear beat Georgia.
(07:54):
Texas knew it was good. Couldn't get past Georgia,
right. Then Tennessee turns around to
go beat Bama, right? We're also looking at games
against Oklahoma, Florida and then a a good Syracuse, but that
game's in Atlanta. So I expect that to be heavily,
you know, Tennessee Orange, but Fran Brown's going to have a
team that's ready to go, ready to play there.
That's going to be a really entertaining matchup.
(08:17):
Circle that one on your calendar.
But again, basically the same schedule you had before.
I believe that A10 win season should be treated as an absolute
win for Tennessee and I'm going to tell you why.
I also want to remind you that we have an audio podcast on
Apple and Spotify where if you go to Apple, Spotify, leave us a
(08:38):
five star review. Fill out the link in the
description below. I will send you one of these
really cool and nifty stickers along with a thank you note
because I realized sticker to sticker, but a thank you note
from me because it means that much to me.
We're fast approaching 500 ratings on Apple and 200 ratings
on Spotify. It'd be great to get to both of
those numbers by the end of the month with media days just
around the corner. I think that Tennessee can get
(09:02):
to 10 wins because Georgia mightbe the loss, right?
And then somebody else is going to be good on your menu.
Oklahoma, Florida, Syracuse. We're going to look up and say,
Oh yeah, once again, that team turned out to be that team.
And I say this because the SEC is always loaded.
(09:22):
At the end of last season, 7 of the 16 teams in the SEC were
ranked seven of what makes up a top 25, right?
That has been true for most of our lives at this point.
We got to take it back like 2002thousand last time We could
think of the SEC not being that great.
(09:44):
But you know, Steve Spurrier's funding gun at Florida was good,
Pat Fullmer, Tennessee was good.These are 90s teams that I'm
talking about. And now you have to deal with
programs that we didn't have to deal with in the past, like Ole
Miss Missouri. I mean, A&M hasn't won much, but
they could always go get you Texas back.
Like it's it's a loaded, it's a loaded league and you know, it's
(10:07):
a loaded league. So getting ten wins is on the
menu, I think, because that's what it's going to take to get
into the College Football Playoff.
You're running through the gauntlet that is this thing like
every time I do a 136 and I'm, I'm polishing the 136 right now
where I rank all 136 teams and it's usually about a 2025
thousand Word document that has my own flair and my own, well,
(10:34):
let's say voice in it. But I, I take some real pride in
these things. We did it last year was really
cool. The ultimate one, 36134 last
year, 136 this year because we had Delaware and Missouri State
and I'm looking at Tennessee and, and I still, I, I mean,
it's a top 25 team for me. It it just is right, But that's
because of the schedule and the schedule for each one of these
(10:55):
SEC teams. It's just my God, every other
week, save those FCS cupcake games.
You got a monster to play. And I mean that like Vanderbilt
is no longer anybody's doormat. Auburn jumped up and bit ANM in
a year where Auburn sucked. I mean, he'd keep going down the
line on this. The only team that was garbage
last year was Mississippi State.And even they gave Georgia a
(11:17):
scare for a little bit. You can't it's, it's week in and
week out in this league. And I, I think that is also, as
an Oklahoma fan, something you're getting used to, right?
Oklahoma lorded over the Big 12.That's not an exaggeration.
It belonged to owe you. Matter of fact, Oklahoma hadn't
had a losing season until 2022, since 1998.
(11:39):
And then you're one of the SEC, you go six and six.
That ain't what Oklahoma football is, is meant to do.
Like it is a monster. We are the place where you win
and win and win and win 47 straight.
That's our record. You know, I mean this, this
league is ridiculous. This league is also awesome.
(12:02):
This league is also really, really cool.
I love the fans. I love how we could care less
about the NFL and the SEC, even as like Georgia football has to
compete with the Atlanta Falcons, even as Florida
football has to compete with theJacksonville Jaguars.
The Texas team's got to compete with Dallas and Houston.
(12:22):
You know, you got your two schools.
And by schools I mean NFL and college, and they rarely mingle.
But in the SEC, they never mingle.
Everybody understands that you play football on Saturday and
you go to church on Sunday. Then when you get home, you
watch the football, right? But that's the order.
The order is we go to church twice.
We go to church on Saturday, we go to this cathedral that is our
stadium and then we go to church.
(12:43):
You know of your persuasion, right?
From non denominational to Catholic to Episcopalian to
Lutheran to American to African Methodist to Southern Methodist
to Southern Baptist. But we can all go, hey, hey,
wasn't it great that Oklahoma got that win against Texas the
next day? I ain't that.
I love that stuff, man. I'll do you tell me though, what
(13:05):
do you think the over under is for Tennessee?
Because I think the over under, I'm going to send it at 9.
I know that's a little high for some.
Some people got it as low as 7 1/2.
Again, I think they can meet that.
I just you got to get on on the good foot because the stat to
know the one that I was teasing to start this segment is 185.
(13:25):
Over the last three years, Tennessee's football team is 23
and O when it rushes for 185 yards or more.
They were 8 and O last year whenthey rushed for 185 yards or
more. So as much as we want to say
Josh Hyper wants to throw the ball down the field, and they
(13:47):
will, they'll try it. They'll they'll unleash a couple
of goes, a couple of posts that they hit home runs.
They are at their best when they're pushing 200 yards
rushing each game. Let's defense play and it lets
the offense breathe and it wearsout your opponent.
If they can get to 185 in 10 games, I think they're going to
(14:09):
go win all ten of those games. 185 yards rushing, That is what
you want to do. If you were the University of
Tennessee in 2025, each and every game you get to 185 yards
rushing and then you sit on the ball and you can do this and win
a national championship. You can.
You don't have to be the team that airs it out.
It helps, but you don't have to.The reason I say this is realize
(14:32):
that there is only one 1000 yardreceiver in University of
Georgia football history. 1. Not one last 10 years.
Not one last 20 years. One ever.
And I've given this that before.So maybe you've heard it, but if
you haven't, without looking up,try to name this wide receiver.
I'll give you 3 seconds. 321. It's not AJ Green, it's not
(14:55):
George Pickens, it's not Brock Bowers, it's not even Heinz
Ward, it's not Champ Bailey. It's Terrence Edwards 2002 who
had 1004 yards receiving to which I'm sure like in a
Tennessee, Tennessee Georgia SI,DS.
Like damn, we should have told them that keep him under 9, keep
him at 999. We should have shorted him 5
(15:16):
yards so we can keep this 0 intact.
And the reason I point that out is remember George went
back-to-back with national championships 2021-2022 and did
not need a 1000 yard receiver. You don't need it.
You can run the football and runthe football and play amazing
defense and win championships. Even now, even in the modern
game, 185, forgive the 300 yards, pass and forget the 40
(15:39):
points a game for even forget, hold people to fewer than 13
points per game. Hit 185, run the football.
Well, everything else will take care of itself.
That's how it feels. That's how I think it's going to
go. You can get to 185, maybe you
make the College Football Playoff, make College Football
Playoff. Maybe you don't get run by Ohio
(16:00):
State after talking so much noise.
Either way, this is going to be a fun team to watch because Hypo
knows what he has and I like what he has and nobody wants it
as bad as the University of Tennessee seems to want it.
Let's talk about the Tennessee Volunteers and why I don't think
it's out of the question for UT to return to the College
Football Playoff. What's up kinfolk, it's RJ
(00:21):
Young. I am not on a step mill.
If this is your first time watching, adapt and respond.
Thank you for joining us here. We talk college football year
round. If that is something you're
into, go ahead and hit that subscribe button.
Like this video and answer the question and the comments below.
Do you think that Tennessee can return to the College Football
Playoff in 2025? And I have one mind blowing stat
(00:45):
that can tell you right away whether or not that's going to
happen. Or I should say, continue to
watch this step because as the step shows up, you're going to
see how good or how bad Tennessee is.
First, let's acknowledge that Josh Hypo has been doing one
hell of a job at the University of Tennessee.
I could not be more proud of a guy that played quarterback at
(01:06):
Oklahoma, won Oklahoma's last national championship, grew up
as an offensive coordinator at Oklahoma, had a falling out with
Bob Stoops, and then made it happen in Central Florida and
made it happen at, yes, the University of Tennessee.
Hypel is one of the great dudes we got in all the college
football. And I've said this before, he
(01:26):
helped me personally when I was very young, beat writer, just
trying to get my bearings and understand when you're covering
A-Team like Oklahoma, you're essentially covering a
professional team. And that is how the public
treats. It's how fans treat, it's how
the coaches treat it well. Also talking about teenagers and
high school and the NFL draft and Hypo would take a little bit
(01:46):
more time with me as I got to know him to explain things or to
fill me in. Just stuff on background from
time to time as well as just talk ball with me.
I still give a lot of the wisdomthat he gave to me to other
players when it's applicable because it really is that cool.
He's a dude that plays the numbers game.
What's the box look like? What's the box count like?
(02:08):
Football is not a difficult sport.
He would say, take what the defense is giving you and if
that means throwing the ball down the field, by all means let
it RIP. If that means a light box, run
the football. And I think people forgot this,
but with Hinden Hooker and the outstanding 2022 season they
had, and I don't, I never forgotthat, But you could see that was
(02:32):
a team that was very happy to gofast and take the top off the
defense because that's what the defense is willing to give them.
And more to the point, that's where their strengths were.
Like, if you don't have the ability to take what the defense
is giving you, let's say they'regiving you a light box, but you
can't run the ball. You still got to throw it.
You got to do what's best for you.
I think Colorado in this manner,right?
Colorado couldn't run the ball for Jack last year, worst
rushing team in all the FBS and they had to throw the ball, move
(02:55):
the ball. So they did last year.
You couldn't really count on Tennessee to throw the ball, to
move the ball. It was a run oriented offense
and it needed to be because NikoYamaliaba just couldn't see it.
They were match protect with twoguys and routes and a lot of a
lot of the time against the schedule that ain't no Gimme,
but looks more or less the same going into this year.
So he returns Tim Banks, which is great, right?
(03:17):
You got your defense coordinatorwho's Royals award finalist and
helped guide Tennessee to its first College Football Playoff
appearance ever. You're also talking about having
to do this without Niko Yamaliaba, who staged the first
holdout in college football history when refused showed up
(03:39):
to practice or he would enter the portal if he did not get a
raise on the two point plus million that he was going to get
paid this year. And they said kick rocks.
And he basically does what on paper looks like a trade with
UCLA with Joey Aguilar going into the portal after Niko
Yamaliava goes in Portland, UCLAcomes out at Tennessee.
(03:59):
But for all of us that are in there, we know this is a mess.
And frankly, it was a mess we all love to watch.
Like the numbers show this too. We were wrapped with our
attention on what Niko Yamaliavain Tennessee we're doing.
And more people are on Tennesseeside with this.
You're not going to have playersthat hold programs like
Tennessee hostage because they want to get a raise, especially
(04:21):
when you didn't do anything thatpeople believe you deserves a
raise. And let's not be quiet here.
The SEC will pay you for winninglike they they're not going to
be shy if you over perform. They will pay you like you over
perform because in the South andat least nothing else.
Want to talk about football? We understand what moves the
needle and we're willing to pay for it to keep moving if that
(04:42):
wouldn't need to happen. But we're not going to overpay
for something you didn't do. So he lands at UCLA, Joey
Aguilar comes back, and now Hypohas to hold together a program
that looked like it's going to take a step back.
And then you pump the brakes andlook at what they got in the in
the cupboard there. Joey Aguilar threw for 6760
(05:02):
yards and 56 T DS over the last two years.
I realized that was at Appalachian State.
But when he's on, he can sling it, he can run this offense.
It'll be OK. Yes.
I'm not really going to entertain Jake Mecklinger as
starting quarterback. I think Joey Aguilar showed up
and he's getting paid a 7 figuresalary to play quarterback week
1 and to be good by Week 3. We'll get to that.
(05:25):
I think the chief concern for Tennessee right now has to be
the offensive line. You return Lance Heard which
straight right, one of the best left tackles in the game.
You add Sam Pendleton as it transfers, going to play some
guard for you from Notre Dame. Now you got to make sure that
you're good everywhere else. They had a really great
offensive line, particularly against a in in run blocking and
(05:46):
trying to find a replacement forCooper May is just going to be
really difficult for anybody, let alone Tennessee.
And then Dylan Sampson's gone, he of the 14191 yard 22 rushing
scores last year. They do have Peyton Lewis,
Deshawn Bishop and Star Thomas, and we expect at least two of
those guys to get the bulk of the carries.
If not one of those guys. My money is on Deshawn Bishop.
(06:08):
I think that dudes a stud. There's a lot of people think
Peyton Lewis is the guy and StarThomas didn't show up here to
not play. I think they got dudes over
there on the wide receiver side.Losing Squirrel White doesn't
hurt. Doesn't help you, right?
But Chris Braswell needs to stepup getting him in, and I think
it's his turn to be the number one.
Let's see what he can do. Let's see what kind of
partnership and get on the outside might be the weakest
(06:29):
position in that offense this year.
Defensively, they're still good.They're not as stacked as they
were last year, but they're still very, very good.
Like the three best players on the University of Tennessee
roster. I think all play defense.
Jermont McCoy obviously almost knocked down the microphone.
Jermont McCoy obviously was their best DB last year with 13
(06:50):
passes defended. Passes defended is accounting
for pass breakups and I NTS he had four interceptions last
year. Not too damn shabby.
And then Bryson Eason and JoshuaJosephs combined for like 16
tackles, a lot for loss in threesacks.
But again, they weren't James Pierce, right?
Like they, they, they're going to have to earn it this year in
(07:12):
a way that they haven't had to last year.
But I still think super talentedand they can be great for you.
The schedule looks almost the same from last year, just in
reverse. For all the games that matter.
There's one big rub, though. Open up SEC play against Georgia
Week 3. Yikes.
(07:33):
It's a program that Tennessee hasn't beaten since 2016.
It's a program that really is the benchmark for everybody in
the SEC. You can go get a win against
them. You can get a win against
anybody. That's why the Ole Miss was so
frustrated to miss the playoff last year, because they knew
they were good. They beat Georgia.
Florida knew it was good at damnnear beat Georgia.
(07:54):
Texas knew it was good. Couldn't get past Georgia,
right. Then Tennessee turns around to
go beat Bama, right? We're also looking at games
against Oklahoma, Florida and then a a good Syracuse, but that
game's in Atlanta. So I expect that to be heavily,
you know, Tennessee Orange, but Fran Brown's going to have a
team that's ready to go, ready to play there.
That's going to be a really entertaining matchup.
(08:17):
Circle that one on your calendar.
But again, basically the same schedule you had before.
I believe that A10 win season should be treated as an absolute
win for Tennessee and I'm going to tell you why.
I also want to remind you that we have an audio podcast on
Apple and Spotify where if you go to Apple, Spotify, leave us a
(08:38):
five star review. Fill out the link in the
description below. I will send you one of these
really cool and nifty stickers along with a thank you note
because I realized sticker to sticker, but a thank you note
from me because it means that much to me.
We're fast approaching 500 ratings on Apple and 200 ratings
on Spotify. It'd be great to get to both of
those numbers by the end of the month with media days just
around the corner. I think that Tennessee can get
(09:02):
to 10 wins because Georgia mightbe the loss, right?
And then somebody else is going to be good on your menu.
Oklahoma, Florida, Syracuse. We're going to look up and say,
Oh yeah, once again, that team turned out to be that team.
And I say this because the SEC is always loaded.
(09:22):
At the end of last season, 7 of the 16 teams in the SEC were
ranked seven of what makes up a top 25, right?
That has been true for most of our lives at this point.
We got to take it back like 2002thousand last time We could
think of the SEC not being that great.
(09:44):
But you know, Steve Spurrier's funding gun at Florida was good,
Pat Fullmer, Tennessee was good.These are 90s teams that I'm
talking about. And now you have to deal with
programs that we didn't have to deal with in the past, like Ole
Miss Missouri. I mean, A&M hasn't won much, but
they could always go get you Texas back.
Like it's it's a loaded, it's a loaded league and you know, it's
(10:07):
a loaded league. So getting ten wins is on the
menu, I think, because that's what it's going to take to get
into the College Football Playoff.
You're running through the gauntlet that is this thing like
every time I do a 136 and I'm, I'm polishing the 136 right now
where I rank all 136 teams and it's usually about a 2025
thousand Word document that has my own flair and my own, well,
(10:34):
let's say voice in it. But I, I take some real pride in
these things. We did it last year was really
cool. The ultimate one, 36134 last
year, 136 this year because we had Delaware and Missouri State
and I'm looking at Tennessee and, and I still, I, I mean,
it's a top 25 team for me. It it just is right, But that's
because of the schedule and the schedule for each one of these
(10:55):
SEC teams. It's just my God, every other
week, save those FCS cupcake games.
You got a monster to play. And I mean that like Vanderbilt
is no longer anybody's doormat. Auburn jumped up and bit ANM in
a year where Auburn sucked. I mean, he'd keep going down the
line on this. The only team that was garbage
last year was Mississippi State.And even they gave Georgia a
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scare for a little bit. You can't it's, it's week in and
week out in this league. And I, I think that is also, as
an Oklahoma fan, something you're getting used to, right?
Oklahoma lorded over the Big 12.That's not an exaggeration.
It belonged to owe you. Matter of fact, Oklahoma hadn't
had a losing season until 2022, since 1998.
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And then you're one of the SEC, you go six and six.
That ain't what Oklahoma football is, is meant to do.
Like it is a monster. We are the place where you win
and win and win and win 47 straight.
That's our record. You know, I mean this, this
league is ridiculous. This league is also awesome.
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This league is also really, really cool.
I love the fans. I love how we could care less
about the NFL and the SEC, even as like Georgia football has to
compete with the Atlanta Falcons, even as Florida
football has to compete with theJacksonville Jaguars.
The Texas team's got to compete with Dallas and Houston.
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You know, you got your two schools.
And by schools I mean NFL and college, and they rarely mingle.
But in the SEC, they never mingle.
Everybody understands that you play football on Saturday and
you go to church on Sunday. Then when you get home, you
watch the football, right? But that's the order.
The order is we go to church twice.
We go to church on Saturday, we go to this cathedral that is our
stadium and then we go to church.
(12:43):
You know of your persuasion, right?
From non denominational to Catholic to Episcopalian to
Lutheran to American to African Methodist to Southern Methodist
to Southern Baptist. But we can all go, hey, hey,
wasn't it great that Oklahoma got that win against Texas the
next day? I ain't that.
I love that stuff, man. I'll do you tell me though, what
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do you think the over under is for Tennessee?
Because I think the over under, I'm going to send it at 9.
I know that's a little high for some.
Some people got it as low as 7 1/2.
Again, I think they can meet that.
I just you got to get on on the good foot because the stat to
know the one that I was teasing to start this segment is 185.
(13:25):
Over the last three years, Tennessee's football team is 23
and O when it rushes for 185 yards or more.
They were 8 and O last year whenthey rushed for 185 yards or
more. So as much as we want to say
Josh Hyper wants to throw the ball down the field, and they
(13:47):
will, they'll try it. They'll they'll unleash a couple
of goes, a couple of posts that they hit home runs.
They are at their best when they're pushing 200 yards
rushing each game. Let's defense play and it lets
the offense breathe and it wearsout your opponent.
If they can get to 185 in 10 games, I think they're going to
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go win all ten of those games. 185 yards rushing, That is what
you want to do. If you were the University of
Tennessee in 2025, each and every game you get to 185 yards
rushing and then you sit on the ball and you can do this and win
a national championship. You can.
You don't have to be the team that airs it out.
It helps, but you don't have to.The reason I say this is realize
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that there is only one 1000 yardreceiver in University of
Georgia football history. 1. Not one last 10 years.
Not one last 20 years. One ever.
And I've given this that before.So maybe you've heard it, but if
you haven't, without looking up,try to name this wide receiver.
I'll give you 3 seconds. 321. It's not AJ Green, it's not
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George Pickens, it's not Brock Bowers, it's not even Heinz
Ward, it's not Champ Bailey. It's Terrence Edwards 2002 who
had 1004 yards receiving to which I'm sure like in a
Tennessee, Tennessee Georgia SI,DS.
Like damn, we should have told them that keep him under 9, keep
him at 999. We should have shorted him 5
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yards so we can keep this 0 intact.
And the reason I point that out is remember George went
back-to-back with national championships 2021-2022 and did
not need a 1000 yard receiver. You don't need it.
You can run the football and runthe football and play amazing
defense and win championships. Even now, even in the modern
game, 185, forgive the 300 yards, pass and forget the 40
(15:39):
points a game for even forget, hold people to fewer than 13
points per game. Hit 185, run the football.
Well, everything else will take care of itself.
That's how it feels. That's how I think it's going to
go. You can get to 185, maybe you
make the College Football Playoff, make College Football
Playoff. Maybe you don't get run by Ohio
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State after talking so much noise.
Either way, this is going to be a fun team to watch because Hypo
knows what he has and I like what he has and nobody wants it
as bad as the University of Tennessee seems to want it.
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