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Tennessee - Air Force: First thoughts



  • By the skin of your teeth
    Meaning

    A very close miss from some disaster.

    Origin

    From the Bible, Old Testament Job 19:20:

        My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

  • Player of the game: Xavier Mitchell, who had something like 10 solo tackles and the game-winning sack to end Air Force's two-point-conversion-to-win gamble and preserve the one-point victory.

  • Injuries: Arian Foster out.  Why?  Justin Harrell out.  Why?  Ramone Foster out with an ankle injury.  Inky Johnson immobilized, carted off the field, and taken to the hospital.  How's he doing?

  • Erik Ainge and Robert Meachem have both strung together two excellent performances in a row.  Up until Ainge's interception late in the game, his efficiency rating had to be through the roof.

  • Florida head coach Urban Meyer can forget whatever plan he was going to draw up for next week's game and just watch the tape of this game.  Defense made a presumably high-powered offense and Heisman-contending running back look awful, and made Air Force look like a national title contender.  The jury has reconsidered, resequestered, and is now redeliberating on the fate of the Tennessee defense.

  • What's with the guy looking at his cell phone the whole game, relaying scores of other games to those around him like they care?  Did you have one of those guys in your section?  "Troy is beating Florida State by three!"  Dude, Air Force is leading Tennessee by seven in front of your nose.

  • Britton Colquitt did not punt the entire game.

  • It appears that the answer to the question, "Is Tennessee that good, or is Cal that bad," is, uh, the latter.

More tomorrow.

Go Vols!

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Cal just played that bad...they dominated a minnesota team that hasn't been a slouch in the big ten.

by USCLink on Sep 10, 2006 4:04 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

skin of teeth
Yeah, it's true we just barely got past that one. But, I gotta ask you guys... am I the only one questioning why in the world we were playing that team on this week?  Chavis and the team handled that offense about as good as can be expected with one week preparation. I've played, coached, and seen my share of football games, and I'll tell ya', I've never seen such perfect execution of that complex offense.
Anyway, I just thought I'd get my thoughts out there- our boys played hard, made a few mistakes, but ultimately were put in a really bad situation.
Fulmer and the coaches will get the boys back studying what they came to the SEC conference to play... and we won't have to see Airforce or any of those academy schools again.  
Our AD surely learned his lesson.

by bobvol on Sep 10, 2006 4:05 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Cal
What do you think Cal is thinking after seeing this game?

I'm thinking the Pac-10 is pathetic.

Cola
http://www.classiccolaforthesoul.com

by Cola on Sep 11, 2006 5:13 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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