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[Shudder] Tennessee to play the Cornhuskers in 2016, 2017

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

Tennessee officials announced Thursday that the Vols will play the Nebraska Cornhuskers in 2016 and 2017.

Kudos to AD Mike Hamilton for scheduling a traditionally solid out of conference opponent, but the mere thought of the Huskers brings back a torrent of horrid thoughts. We played were on the same field with them in 1997 and 1999 and got absolutely mauled. It was like a giant blood-red tidal wave tumbling our defensive linemen helmets over cleats before bowling over our linebackers after eight yards, each and every play. Play after play after play. It was horrible.

Just before the 1999 game, the Tennessee appellate court judge for whom I clerked and I had the following conversation:

“Nebraska just dominated Tennessee a couple of years ago, didn’t they?”

“Yeah, but they say they’re stronger now.”

“Stronger than what? Stronger than they were two years ago, or stronger than Nebraska?”

Uh, the former.

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Final BlogPoll

Sunday, January 8th, 2006

Still having intermittent problems with the blog, both on my side and on my host’s side. Sneaking this in before the window of opportunity closes again.

1. Texas

2. Southern Cal

3. Penn State

4. West Virginia

5. Ohio State

6. Georgia

7. Louisiana State

8. TCU

9. Virginia Tech

10. Alabama

11. Oregon

12. UCLA

13. Notre Dame

14. Wisconsin

15. Auburn

16. Florida

17. Boston College

18. Miami

19. Texas Tech

20. Louisville

21. Florida State

22. Clemson

23. Oklahoma

24. Nebraska

25. California

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Tennessee Volunteers’ Next Two Games to Impact the Race to the Rose Bowl

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

College Football News’ weekly Road to the Rose Bowl is up. There are 6 Unbeaten Contenders (Southern Cal, Texas, Virginia Tech, Florida State, Georgia, and Alabama), 6 Unbeaten Longshots (Cal, Wisconsin, Penn State, UCLA, Texas Tech, and Nebraska), and 17 No Margin for Errors (including Tennessee). The Tennessee Volunteers get a couple of chances to decrease the number of Unbeaten Contenders over the next couple of weeks, as they host the Georgia Bulldogs this Saturday (CFN’s lock-yourself-in-a-room-to-watch game) and travel to take on the Alabama Crimson Tide two weeks after that.

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