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2 years

Tennessee's administration walking into the SEC office in Birmingham with its storming-the-field fine check.

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2 years

Tennessee being a No. 3 seed and Duke being a No. 2 seed is an absolute joke on every level.

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2 years

#Vols played a walk-on DB on the final series because literally everyone else was hurt, and they beat Alabama. Incredible.

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1 year

Imagine Stetson Bennett IV on Tennessee's roster. Then imagine Hendon Hooker on Georgia's roster.

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1 year

Hendon Hooker will always be remembered as the player who brought Tennessee football back to relevance. One of the best quarterbacks in program history. Special player. Special person. Sports are the very best and the very worst.

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4 years

Twenty years ago, #Vols LB Daniel Bituli and his Congolese family lived in a refugee camp in Cameroon. Now their oldest son serves in the U.S. Navy, their middle son works at Merrill Lynch and their youngest son is about to be an NFL player. This America is our best America.

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2 years

#Vols ' Bru McCoy: I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I got here, in the best possible way. I couldn't imagine the noise, the environment, all of it. Coming here is the best decision I've ever made.

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1 year

Hendon Hooker AND his parents are here tonight in Nashville. Classy families make classy kids.

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5 years

#Vols ’ Jauan Jennings: I’m a Tennessee guy from a Tennessee family. I wouldn’t be where I am today without the state of Tennessee and the University of Tennessee. I take that with me every time I step on the field. This place means everything to me.

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5 years

If you’re Pruitt, you have to say something after this game. If they fine you, they fine you. You have to stick up for your guys. This is garbage.

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2 years

Looked this up while waiting for Heupel to show up for presser. First TN-Bama game after I was born was a Vols win. First TN-Bama game after my dad was born was a Vols win. First TN-Bama game after my brother was born was a Vols win. This will be my son's first TN-Bama game.

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1 year

Hendon Hooker's Tennessee career has ended with 6,080 passing yards, 1,046 rushing yards, 68 total touchdowns and 5 interceptions. He started 21 games. He produced so much more than numbers, obviously. But those numbers, wow.

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Following the logic here... Tennessee was punished in rankings in part because Hendon Hooker was hurt. But that didn't make Hooker valuable enough to be a Heisman finalist despite being named SEC Offensive Player of the Year. Some painful double jeopardy there.

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1 year

It's sad looking at all the empty seats in some of these bowl games. Why not release some of the un-sold tickets to local schools and organizations a couple days before the game and get more butts in seats? Surely some local kids and families would love to go.

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1 year

#Vols coach Josh Heupel: A lot of people questioned our program culture this week. Most people didn’t believe we could win 10 games this soon. But the kids who stayed after 30-plus of their teammates left, they believed.

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2 years

#Vols waited all season for the Kentucky football game to introduce the reigning SEC champion basketball team. Surely a coincidence...

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2 years

At 7:38 p.m. Eastern, 22 inches and nearly 9 pounds of perfection named Henry George Rucker entered the world. Meet Hank. Thank you to the wonderful women and men at UT Medical Center. Mom and Hank are great. Days get no better than this.

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2 years

Holy hell, The Third Saturday in October might finally feel like The Third Saturday in October again. Gonna be a madhouse at Neyland in seven days.

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6 years

Former #Vols star Alvin Kamara to MMQB on not buying anything fancy after draft: “I got my signing bonus and I put that s--- in the bank and I went and got some motherf---ing wings.” I will never not love @A_kamara6 . Said right after the draft New Orleans was perfect for him.

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2 years

#Vols QB Hendon Hooker: "Like I said, man, another day at the office. We've got a lot to clean up and get ready for UT-Martin."

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2 years

***Quick heads up so it’s not awkward*** I’m not in Indianapolis today and won’t be able to cover the #Vols ’ NCAA Tournament opener against Longwood. My son needs two kidney surgeries. First is this morning. @GrantRamey has it covered in Indy. I’ll be back soon.

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1 year

Stetson Bennett IV wasn't even the second-team All-SEC quarterback. Love the kid. Inspirational story. But his QB rating was more than 20 points lower than Hendon Hooker's. Even in an all-time tough year for Heisman voting, him being a finalist is yikes.

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1 year

Tennessee deserves to lose this game. Hendon Hooker does not deserve a serious knee injury.

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2 years

#Vols coach Tony Vitello on Notre Dame: Not to humble brag, but the only reason I know we’re playing Notre Dame is I got a text message from Peyton Manning. Thank you for letting me tell everyone that Peyton Manning texts me.

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2 years

***Adjusted official numbers.*** Today #Vols ’ Ben Joyce threw… - 3 pitches at 105 mph or better - 15 pitches at 104 mph or better - 28 pitches at 103 mph or better Of his 33 fastballs, 28 were 103-plus

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1 year

So apparently TCU's home win over mighty Texas Tech made their resume better than Tennessee's this week when TCU's resume wasn't better than Alabama's last week. That cannot be defended. It just can't. I know what team I cover. But I'm also not an idiot.

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5 years

#Vols coach Jeremy Pruitt on his game plan for this week: There’s a high school team in Arkansas that does an onside kick for every kickoff and never punts. If we could do that and never give Alabama the football this week, that would be a great game plan.

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5 years

#Vols ’ Lamonte Turner: I gave everything I could give, even when my legs went out. I tried, man. I gave it everything. So did my brothers.

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2 years

Tennessee in Dark Mode. Will Levis in Fart Mode.

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6 years

The guy on the right gave the kid on the left a second chance, and so far that’s worked out well for both of them.

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6 years

Because his college coach thought J.J. Watt was a tight end.

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6 years

How on Earth did Alvin Kamara never rush for 1,000 yards at Tennessee?

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2 years

Gutted for Texas A&M. Between that and Tennessee being a No. 3 seed, Greg Sankey should make some angry phone calls and then move the SEC Tournament Champioship Game from Sunday. Ridiculous job by the committeee. A&M deserved that more than a handul of those in the field.

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5 years

Final in Knoxville: Georgia State 38, Tennessee 30. One of the worst days in the history of one of college football’s winningest programs. Unacceptable in every way.

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2 years

That’s robbery. Straight up robbery.

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2 years

#Vols QB Hendon Hooker: I didn't smoke a cigar. I just took a picture with one. Vols DB Trevon Flowers: I definitely smoked my cigar, man.

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2 years

I would have zero problem with TCU at No. 4 and Tennessee at No. 5 in the new CFP rankings, but there’s a problem with that and it should be discussed. If TCU’s resume wasn’t better than Alabama’s last week, it sure as hell isn’t better than Tennessee’s resume this week.

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2 years

You can't excuse Jermaine Burton's actions after the Tennessee game as something that happened because fans rushed the field. We've seen the video, guys. It was a woman who was not threatening him at all, and he went out of his way to do it. Not saying jail him. But come on.

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4 months

The Michigan Wolverines are one win away from a vacated national championship.

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1 year

Duke forward Kyle Filipowski: This isn't a hit on other teams we've played, but Tennessee was probably the most physical team we've played all year. Maybe more than Purdue.

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2 months

Not allowing the nation's top offense a single bucket for more than nine minutes in the second half in its own building? That's absurd.

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5 years

You know who didn’t deserve that humiliating loss yesterday? Jauan Jennings. Dude played his tail off. Like he always does.

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4 years

Five-star PG Kennedy Chandler of Memphis on his commitment to Tennessee. “I will always rep my city, but I’m gonna play for my state.” Oh, man. Oh, man. That will sting Memphis.

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6 years

Jeremy Pruitt is actively trying to change the culture of the Tennessee program. He’s coaching to win. I like it.

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2 years

Ladies and gentlemen, I believe #Vols ’ Ben Joyce just threw the second-fastest pitch in recorded baseball history. 105.5 mph.

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6 years

Multiple people have tweeted me that they’re lining up on campus in the morning to cancel their season tickets if #Vols hire Dave Doeren. This is going well, you guys.

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7 months

Nice to see this guy back in the stadium he brought back to life.

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1 year

Interesting fact looked up by a @GoVols247 subscriber... TCU has beaten four bowl-eligible teams by an average margin of 6.7 points. Tennessee has beaten six bowl-eligible teams by an average of 22 points.

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1 year

Again, Georgia is the only defense that had made Tennessee's offense look human. Mizzou was the 13th-best defense in college football, and it just allowed 66 points and 724 yards to the Vols. That's ridiculous.

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1 year

Where’s the media outrage for ANOTHER fan base not named Tennessee’s throwing stuff on the field? Getting difficult to try and explain this to TN fans. I’ve always insisted there isn’t a double standard. Maybe I was wrong. Hate calling out my own kind, but I’m being honest.

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3 months

In short, Tennessee's message to the NCAA: We were very wrong with the Pruitt stuff and we admitted to all of it, and you told everyone we were the standard of cooperation and transparency. We are not wrong here, and you can kiss our Big Orange Ass.

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2 years

Alabama's Will Anderson had three tackles and 0.5 tackles for loss tonight. Bama had one sack and zero quarterback hurries tonight at Tennessee.

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2 years

Thank you to the miracle workers at @EastTNChildrens . The first of Hank’s two kidney surgeries went great. At least we didn’t miss a close game, right?

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1 month

Tennessee lost twice to Purdue this season by a total of 10 points. Purdue shot 81 free throws in those games, and Tennessee shot 41.

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2 years

Can we stop for just a second and remember the fact that Tennessee settled for five field-goal attempts and missed one of them ... and still scored 40 points against a ranked LSU team at Tiger Stadium. This offense is something else.

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2 years

If this happened to other programs, there would be a reckoning. You know it. I know it. We all know it.

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2 years

There are few bigger Tennessee fans than Kellie Harper. Multiple people have told me it’s borderline scary to watch games with her.

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2 years

What a night! There is no place like Rocky Top! 🧡

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6 years

For too long, Big Athletics everywhere has let certain things slide. Now a fan base rises up to oppose even the possibility of it, and they’re the crazy ones? BS.

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1 year

Reporter: What about your head-to-head loss to Tennessee? Saban: I don’t talk about other teams. Three seconds later, Saban: We didn’t have any bad losses. Other teams competing for this did. And they were late in the season. Hahaha.

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7 months

Kidney surgery No. 6 was a success. Knock on wood. Hank’s madder than a wet hen, but he’s alright. Now we wait a bit and hope it worked. Thank you for the millionth time to the heroes at ⁦ @EastTNChildrens ⁩, and thank you to everyone for the warm thoughts.

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4 years

Tonight's attendance was the largest in the Gator Bowl since 2011. The #Vols program has been down for most of the past dozen years, but its fan base never stopped being elite.

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2 years

Tennessee being really good has always been and will always be really good for college football, because almost no one is ambivalent about the #Vols . People love or hate them, and when you see their shade of orange, you know exactly who it is. Big brand. Makes the sport better.

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1 year

Finally, ESPN saying the obvious. If Tennessee wins out, LSU will not pass Tennessee.

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5 years

#Vols coach Jeremy Pruitt: I lost count of how many times I’ve walked in to talk to a recruit and the TV showed our basketball team kicking somebody’s ass. I love it. I love those guys.

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2 years

#Vols coach Josh Heupel now admitting Cedric Tillman practiced at full speed for two weeks before they let him play the first half against Kentucky on a pitch count. If you have a future in this game, he's not gonna push you. Gotta tip the cap to that.

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4 years

#Vols coach Jeremy Pruitt: The night we lost our running backs coach, I went home and turned the lights off and was ready to fall asleep. Next thing I hear is, “Are you gonna hire Jay [Graham]?" Yeah, you can tell who runs our house. It’s my wife.

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5 years

#Vols ’ Grant Williams: It’s really hard to think about the fact that I’ll never play another game with Admiral.

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5 years

#Vols coach Rick Barnes: It's Thanksgiving Week, and I'm really thankful that I got to see two of my players get baptized and walk closer to the God I believe in.

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5 years

Grant Williams on #Vols maybe be ranked No. 1 on Monday morning: “I came here to hang banners, not be ranked No. 1 in January."

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5 years

I don’t know what to tell y’all. This is an absolutely horrible look for the SEC. Conspiracy theorists will have a field day with this.

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2 years

Lunardi is about to get VolTwittered so hard. So hard. Poor guy.

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2 years

Mississippi State’s Tanner Leggett flipping his bat at Tennessee’s dugout after a home run that cut the Bulldogs’ deficit to 23-2 might be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.

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11 months

They're required to play the winning team's fight song after NCAA Regionals, regardless of the game's location. Clemson just played like seven seconds of Rocky Top. Then switched songs. Amazing.

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2 years

Kentucky coach John Calipari: People said we might be a 1 seed. Well, [Tennessee] just beat us. What’s that say about them? Look how they’ve been playing. Just watch the games.

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2 years

#Vols coach Josh Heupel said his players that can’t get home for Thanksgiving will be eating at his house or an assistant coach’s house Thursday.

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2 years

#Vols senior TE Princeton Fant on whether Bama's Henry To'o To'o narrated "nothing personal, just business" video was motivation: Yes, it was motivation. But it was just business, nothing personal.

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4 years

#Vols ’ Fr LB Henry To’o To’o (from California) before today’s interview: Nobody ever told me it snows in Tennessee. How can it snow in a place where it gets so hot? I had to go buy a big coat yesterday.

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2 years

Tennessee is 121st out of 131 teams nationally in time of possession, but the #Vols are No. 1 nationally in total offense (571.7 yards per game) and scoring (50.1 points per game). Against the nation's 15th toughest schedule. Without Cedric Tillman. It's just wild.

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4 years

You know Jauan Jennings is making a list of all these wide receivers going ahead of him and preparing to eat their souls.

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4 years

Not sure I’ve *ever* seen Tennessee have a recruiting week like this. This is just ridiculous.

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2 months

#Vols coach Rick Barnes: I have friends in Texas that will be dear friends until the day I die. I'll always be grateful for them. But I've been gone nine years. I'm a Tennessee Volunteer, and I thank the Lord for that blessing.

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4 years

Got a bit emotional reading stories about officials telling some tornado-aid volunteers to go home because there were too many of them and they couldn’t get heavy machinery in there. The Volunteer State is such an accurate name. Every time. What a special place to live.

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1 year

Tennessee this season beat programs that won six of the past seven national championships. Wild.

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5 years

#Vols ’ Jordan Bowden: I just got a text from my mama saying we gave her a heart attack. Sorry, mama.

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3 years

Full credit to Ole Miss for its drastically improved hydration discipline this week.

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2 years

The top-ranked #Vols ’ game tomorrow night against Tennessee Tech at Smokies Stadium in Kodak will be played with WOOD BATS. Fun.

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3 months

Today, for the first time in Hank’s 26 months on earth, we were told his kidneys had not gotten worse, and that the really bad one looked a little “happier.” *Maybe* no more surgeries. Just those first six. No PAT. I will praise and support ⁦ @EastTNChildrens ⁩ until I die.

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2 years

#Vols ’ Drew Gilbert on the Vandy crowd becoming less hostile as the weekend progressed: “Yeah. For sure. You definitely notice that. When you’re stomping on someone’s throat, they tend to get a little quieter."

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2 years

If you didn’t love #Vols freshman PG Zakai Zeigler before, consider this. Last night’s postgame kerfuffle between Vols and Gators started when a Gator called Zeigler short. Then Zeigler stood on a chair so they could see him Gator Chomping them off the floor. Gold. Solid gold.

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6 months

Remember that time Tennessee had an offense with Josh Dobbs, Alvin Kamara, Jauan Jennings, Jalen Hurd, Josh Malone, Marquez Callaway, John Kelly, Ethan Wolf and Jakob Johnson and it didn’t win the SEC East?

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6 years

#Vols coach Rick Barnes said officials during Sunday’s win over Lipscomb told him he needed to stop trying to ref the game. Barnes replied that if they’d ref the game, he wouldn’t have to.

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5 years

If you’re wondering whether the ref was distracted or had an obstructed view of that hilarious facemask call he missed today … well … nope. Staring right at it.

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4 years

Nice to see Jeremy Pruitt allowing the #Vols who graduated today to skip practice and hang out with their families if they wanted to. Pruitt said graduating from college is the most important thing you can do in college, and he’s right.

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3 years

Jarrett Guarantano gave #Vols everything he had. Sometimes it wasn’t good enough, and sometimes it was rough, but lack of effort or care was never the issue. Really hope people let the kid move on with his life and enjoy a fresh start elsewhere.

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4 years

Not sure how the SEC proved Jauan Jennings intentionally stepped on the Vandy player’s face. No video I saw proved that. If he did it intentionally, suspend him for a full game, not a half game. And if he didn’t do it intentionally, don’t suspend him. B.S. decision IMO.

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1 year

I know some of y’all are angry. I get it. Sensitive subject. That doesn’t change that Bama’s best win is against the No. 20 team in the country. Lost to the best two teams it played. At some point you have to beat someone.

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2 years

New playoff rankings might be ... 1) Georgia 2) Ohio State 3) Michigan 4) Tennessee or TCU 5) TCU or Tennessee Sound about right?

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1 month

BREAKING: Zach Edey has been called for a foul. It was an obvious foul, and the Purdue fans are losing their minds. Hahaha. It really is ridiculous enough to be kinda funny.

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7 years

An elderly couple dressed as Santa and Mrs. Claus yesterday and gave stuffed animals to kids staying in wildfire shelters. I might cry.

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Strength of schedule for teams in College Football Playoff chase… Tennessee — No. 3 LSU — No. 11 TCU — No. 38 Georgia — No. 44 Clemson — No. 55 Ohio State — No. 60 USC — No. 65 North Carolina — No. 75 Michigan — No. 82

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2 years

I still don’t understand how a play is over before a whistle is blown just because an official believes the play is over. Isn’t that why they have whistles?

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