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ESPN College GameDay and early games open thread

With yet another night game for the Vols, there's a full day of football before things get serious against Memphis. Here's one recommended viewing schedule for Vol fans again:

Watch these live

South Carolina
@
Arkansas 12:21 p.m. SECN
LSU
@
Alabama 3:30 p.m. CBS
Memphis
@
Tennessee 7:00 p.m. ESPNU


Flip between/DVR these

Ohio State
@
Penn State 3:30 p.m. ABC
Vanderbilt
@
Florida 7:15 p.m. ESPN2

 

All times EST

Of course, the day kicks off again with ESPN College GameDay, which starts at 10:00 and shoots live from. . . wha? . . . Colorado Springs for the Army-Air Force game. Huh. Comments on that?

Quick question, as a Vol fan, who are you rooting for in the LSU-Alabama game? LSU, because you hate Alabama, or Alabama, because that would be the first domino to fall in the unlikely scenario Tennessee finishes the season the third best team in the SEC?

Leave your comments on GameDay and/or the early games below.

 

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Who do you want to win the LSU-Alabama game?

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What Tennessee Volunteer fans should watch, record this week

Watch these live

Thursday, 11/5/09
Virginia Tech
@
East Carolina 7:30 p.m. ESPN
Friday, 11/6/09
Boise State
@
Louisiana Tech 8:00 p.m. ESPN2
Saturday, 11/7/09
South Carolina
@
Arkansas 12:21 p.m. SECN
LSU
@
Alabama 3:30 p.m. CBS
Memphis
@
Tennessee 7:00 p.m. ESPNU

Flip between/DVR these

Saturday, 11/7/09
Ohio State
@
Penn State 3:30 p.m. ABC
Vanderbilt
@
Florida 7:15 p.m. ESPN2

All times EST

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Around the SB Nation: unanticipated problems with coach-in-waiting scenarios

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NCAA College Football Quiz: Who Am I?

(AP Photo/J.D. Pooley)

(AP Photo/J.D. Pooley)

I:

  • am a senior starting quarterback at a 1-A school.
  • am a multiple-year starter.
  • have a very real chance to set the all-time passing yardage record at my school.
  • already hold school records for most passes attempted and most passes completed in a single game.
  • hold the school record for most passing attempts in a season.
  • am on pace for the school record for most passing attempts in a career.
  • guided the team through a coaching transition and offensive overhaul.
  • have maintained roughly a 65% passing completion percentage and 130 qb rating throughout my career.

Who Am I?

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ESPN College GameDay and early games open thread

There's a full day of football before ours rolls around at 7:45 tonight, beginning with Ole Miss at Auburn at 12:21 and continuing with the Cocktail Party at 3:30. Of course, the day really kicks off with ESPN College GameDay, which starts at 10:00 and shoots live from Eugene, Oregon where USC will travel to take on the Ducks at about the same time as our game. Expect little mention of South Carolina at Tennessee unless it also includes talk of officials, reprimands, and/or Lil Wayne.

So leave your comments on GameDay and/or the early games below.

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What Tennessee Volunteer fans should watch, record this week

Watch these live

Thursday, 10/29/09
North Carolina
@
Virginia Tech 7:30 p.m. ESPN
Friday, 10/30/09
West Virginia
@
South Florida 8:00 p.m. ESPN2
Saturday, 10/31/09
Ole Miss
@
Auburn 12:21 p.m. SECN
Georgia
vs.
Florida 3:30 p.m. CBS
South Carolina
@
Tennessee 7:45 p.m. ESPN

Flip between/DVR these in the evening

Saturday, 10/31/09
Texas
@
Oklahoma State 8:00 p.m. ABC
USC
@
Oregon 8:00 p.m. ABC

All times EST

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How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Pro-Style Offense.

This was the only interesting thing to happen in 60 minutes of football.  Yup.  (AP Photo/The Birmingham News,  Mark Almond)

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This was the only interesting thing to happen in 60 minutes of football. Yup. (AP Photo/The Birmingham News, Mark Almond)

At this stage in the season, it's pretty well time for fans of teams who don't have a shot at a national championship to begin wondering who they'd most like to see actually win the thing.  Sometimes it's a matter of not watching a rival win it.  Sometimes it's just hoping the SEC doesn't win one yet again.  Sometimes it's just the color of the helmet.  But we all decide that, at the very least, there's one team out there that we'd be least disgusted to see win it all.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the name of the team, the color of the jersey, or even the geography of the conference, but rather a matter of principle of opinion.  Now, my opinion might change again at the drop of a hat, but for one week, I finally have an actual reason to pick somebody - the Alabama Crimson Tide.

My reason comes as a reaction to this opinion at Team Speed Kills:

The conference sure would be a lot less interesting without Nick Saban and Lane Kiffin, but after watching Alabama and Tennessee play, I'm willing to make that sacrifice.

Year2 is fully entitled to his opinion, and I completely respect it.  I understand where he's coming from, and we can set aside any pro-Florida innuendo behind his preference for Alabama and Tennessee to jettison their coaches as I really don't think he meant it in that manner.  But the disinteresting nature of pro-style football at the collegiate level comes entirely from a matter of personal subjective preference, not from the systems themselves.  And before I go any further, since I have shown a tendency to come off as judgmental against people themselves, let me again repeat that it's perfectly ok for Year2 to have his opinion and I'm not begrudging that in the least.  But an opinion - even mine - is nothing more than an opinion, and it's worth separating out some of the objectivity from the subjectivity.

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Evening Games Open Thread

There's still more football on, if you're up for it.  Expect this to be casual tonight.

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