THE TREV DEMANDS ANSWERS

Second, the question is worth looking at, sort of:  How many games will we win?  Given that this is a completely speculative question, there's no way to tell.  It's not as if we know we're playing OSU in a bowl game, so there's no SEC/Big10 trend to rely on.  Given that every guess (good or bad) is effectively random at this point, here goes mine.  Notes are at the bottom to keep the pretty chart pretty.

Team          Place           Should:
UAB             Knoxville       Win.
UCLA           Pasadena      Win.
Florida         Knoxville       Win.
Auburn        Auburn          Lose.
Northern Ill. Knoxville       Win.
Georgia       Athens          Lose.
MSU            Knoxville       Win.
Alabama      Knoxville       Win.
Spurrier      Columbia       Win.
Wyoming     Knoxville       Win.
Vanderbilt    Nashville       Win.
Kentucky     Knoxville       Win.

UCLA:  Despite the huge homefield advantage that includes two time zones and a lot of talent on the team and on the staff, this is a very early game for UCLA.  Cohesion will be more of a problem for them than UT, and I'll go ahead and guess that UT will win.

Florida/Auburn/Georgia/Alabama:  Rather than bother with individual games, I guessed at a 50-50 split between the four and distributed 2 wins and 2 losses.  For convenience, the losses were on the road.

Rest of SEC:  MSU is better than in the past, but I gave K'ville the nod.  Spurrier can go either way, but the Columbia Spurriers aren't exactly the Gainesville Spurriers.  Vandy and UK should regress a bit.

Wyoming:  Gotta mention my alma mater, if only to remind everybody that I'm not saying any of this out of lifelong homerism.  Wyoming will lose, though they tend to play 3 out of 4 quarters close.

TOTAL:
+ 10-2
Now, add in the sheer randomness and absurdity of doing this in the first full week of February, for crying out loud!, then I'd place a realistic range anywhere between 7 and 11.  12 would be sweet, but we all know that's nearly impossible in the ultra-competitive SEC (added just to drive Big10 people nuts).  So, despite the absurd notion of doing this kind of guesswork before the dogwoods even start to bloom, I'd say 8 wins is pretty likely.  I'll toss an 80% chance at it, just to make things fun.

ALTERNATE PROCESS: Use the 2 most likely overall with conference and non-con play.

• Non-SEC: 4-0 or 3-1
• SEC: 6-2 or 5-3
• Range of likelihood: 8-4 to 10-2.

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