Tennessee football

University of Georgia head coach Kirby Smart met with media after practice Tuesday evening and offered comments regarding the preparation for Tennessee.

They have to continue to do that to have success. The expectation is that you are going to be good because you recruit good players and because you coach hard. We have all the games. It is great to have him take that on. You have to have sub packages. I am not going to say that we were as talented as we were last year, but they play hard. It is not like just because you lose good players does not mean you are not going to be good the next year. They have to have an opportunity to go play. You have to have those.” Those are the guys that will have to go play.” Georgia is an 8.5 point favorite to beat the Vols, per The over/under is set at 66.5.

Tennessee at Georgia is appointment television this Saturday. But what other games are worth your attention in College Football Week 10?

[Click here](https://forum.killerfrogs.com/index.php?pages/app/) to become a member of the Killer Frogs message board community today! The Wolfpack are down their starting QB Devin Leary, who is out for the season, but their defense keeps them in games. Brian Kelly has LSU playing much better football than earlier in the season, to the point where they could pose resistance to Alabama in Death Valley. Alabama and LSU have a terrific rivalry going with plenty of memorable matchups in recent years. South Bend will be packed and loud in anticipation of the Tigers coming to town and the Irish will be thirsty for an upset. I understand the need to watch the other two bigger games in this window, but go ahead and throw this one on the phone, tablet, or whatever smaller screen you utilize. The Pokes are looking to rebound off a 48-0 (!!!) blowout at the hands of Kansas State in a Sunflower State doubleheader. Throw this one on the laptop and, if you look away for too long, the entire complexity of the game may change. Outside of being a blockbuster game, these two teams are entrenched in a staunch rivalry. Don't look now, but the Terps sit behind just Ohio State and Michigan in the Big Ten East standings. The game went to overtime and was decided on a walk-off pass breakup as Army took the first installation in dramatic fashion. This game is appointment television, but it's not the only matchup worth watching this Saturday.

Tennessee roars into Athens with the SEC East at stake · In the eyes of the College Football Playoff committee, · Before Tennessee and its fans get too caught up ...

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The Tennessee football Volunteers will need their best playmakers to step up in Athens, Ga., Saturday against the UGA Dawgs.

Well, if you go by data on Football Outsiders, the Vols are a close second. The Missouri Tigers have by far the best interior defensive line of anybody the Dawgs have faced this year if you look at their advanced metrics. That applies whether or not you go by the College Football Playoff, AP Poll or Coaches Poll.

Subscribers unlock inside access to how we cover Tennessee football by joining our Vols text group with beat writer Adam Sparks.

It's an added perk that increases your reader experience and is easy to opt out of at any time if it's not for you. [launched Neyland legend and killed a governor](https://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/college/university-of-tennessee/football/2022/10/06/tennessee-football-vs-lsu-1926-robert-neyland-governor-henry-fuqua/69526831007/) [began with a poem in a Virginia hospital bed.](https://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/college/university-of-tennessee/football/2021/10/07/hendon-hooker-tennessee-football-quarterback-poem-virginia-hospital-bed/5928045001/) [the iconic Johnny Majors-Bear Bryant photobomber.](https://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/college/university-of-tennessee/football/2022/10/13/tennessee-football-alabama-photo-1982-iconic-photobomber/69542828007/) And since then, Sparks has consistently provided a slew of stories with exclusive appeal. Sparks has been on the UT beat since 2021, taking over when Blake Toppmeyer — who launched the text group — was promoted to SEC columnist.

Since the inception of a consensus national championship game with the BCS in 1998, there has never been a team that started the year unranked in the AP Top 25 ...

[Clemson](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/CLEM/clemson-tigers/) in the semifinal and No. [Mississippi State](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/MISSST/mississippi-state-bulldogs/) captured the first-ever No. Oregon did the same in 2021 with two losses by a combined 76-17 against [Utah](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/UTAH/utah-utes/). 2 [Ohio State](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/OHIOST/ohio-state-buckeyes/) in the national championship game. [Trey Palmer](/college-football/players/3122273/trey-palmer/) ( [Nebraska](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/NEB/nebraska-cornhuskers/)), [Siaki Ika](/college-football/players/3122596/siaki-ika/) ( [Baylor](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/BAYLOR/baylor-bears/)) and Eric Monroe ( [Texas Tech](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/TXTECH/texas-tech-red-raiders/)) -- players that can transfer and become leading starters elsewhere -- can step in. An extremely talented [Cincinnati](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/CINCY/cincinnati-bearcats/) team with a record nine players drafted made the [playoff] but was two wins away from winning it all." The Volunteers knocked off [Alabama](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/BAMA/alabama-crimson-tide/) for the first time in 16 years and debuted at No. 9 [Auburn](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/AUBURN/auburn-tigers/) by a combined 17 points before heading into its signature matchup. Alabama this year (2) was the highest-ranked team on the board, though LSU played three teams in the top 15. [Tennessee](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/TENN/tennessee-volunteers/) is putting together a season for the ages in coach Josh Heupel's second campaign. [Bru McCoy](/college-football/players/3121101/bru-mccoy/) sit at barely 41% with third and fourth WRs [Cedric Tillman](/college-football/players/2962120/cedric-tillman/) (who has missed time with injuries) and [Ramel Keyton](/college-football/players/3123657/ramel-keyton/) each nabbing 13% of targets. 1 in the AP Top 25 with Tennessee in the No.

Tennessee heads between the hedges Saturday to take on Georgia. Who's stock is up, who's down, and what's flat? Find out in the Volquest stock report.

Going to be interesting to see how they use their personnel in the secondary this week. You can’t miss those opportunities in this match up — Brent Hubbs Missed opportunities following turnovers —Tennessee’s defense forced 3 turnovers with the three interceptions and Tennessee turned them into just 7 points as the Vols missed a field goal and went 3 and out after the first interception. Slaughter started at safety the two previous games and slid to corner and made two plays no other Tennessee corner has made this season. That inside group played really well and they have a heck of a challenge on their hands this week against a Georgia offense averaging 200 yards a game and 5.7 yards a carry— Brent Hubbs The Vols have surprised everyone starting 8-0 and landing in the [top spot with the college football playoffs](https://www.on3.com/teams/tennessee-volunteers/news/tennessee-vols-football-josh-heupel-college-football-playoff-number-one/).

Fans want Tennessee to make Josh Heupel richer. Readers need to realize former AD Phillip Fulmer helped make this success possible.

He wondered why there was no Moe to complete the [Three Stooges](https://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/columnists/university-of-tennessee/john-adams/2022/10/26/tennessee-football-rocky-top-into-happy-vols/69588198007/). This is our playoff game, we may not get another chance this year, so let’s reach down deep and try to be the ultimate “power puncher". (One of us was even wearing a Tennessee shirt ... Last year right after Christmas, refusing to go to another Music City Bowl, I took my family to Miami, hoping for a long winter's nap away from the nightmares of UT seasons past. Anyone who’s a fan of college football should enjoy watching the Vols -- unless, of course, their team is matched against them. I included the "LSU challenge" originally but mistakenly left it out while reworking my column as the game went along. This staff has delivered one of the all-time great coaching jobs. If this team goes 11 and 1 and makes the CFP, Danny While may have to revisit the contract table with Josh Heupel. But the Vols need to reward their assistant coaches, too. I can imagine his really wanting to stick it to the Sooners when they join the SEC. But if not for Fulmer’s dreadful hire and ineptitude as an AD, chancellor Donde Plowman wouldn’t have had the opportunity to take a broom to a messy program. Fulmer hired Jeremy Pruitt, who needed only three years to establish himself as one of the worst football coaches in SEC history.

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“We’ve definitely adapted to it,” Segars said. We like to stay within the 30 to 45 minutes if we can.” “It can get up to an hour, an hour and a half during high volume times. 1 and No. It just depends on the time of the game.” Georgia-Tennessee is a matchup of AP No.

See the different scenarios that could play out for the 2022 College Football Playoffs based on the outcome of Tennessee vs Georgia Saturday.

Tennessee is currently being given a 63.2 percent chance to make the playoffs while Georgia has a 68.8 percent chance to make the playoffs per ESPN’s FPI. If the Vols lose to Georgia, subsequently missing out on the SEC Championship game, the algorithm still gives Tennessee a 67 percent chance to make the playoffs. Instead, as we saw on Tuesday night and ever since the playoffs began in 2014, a committee is assembled to determine the teams that will be in play. However, if the Bulldogs lose to Tennessee, Georgia’s chances drop down to 52 percent. The playoff teams are not chosen based on mathematics or algorithms. The winner of Tennessee-Georgia will most certainly have the most impressive win in college football this season.

Media, coaches, oddsmakers didn't believe Tennessee would be in the College Football Playoff hunt. Do they still think that before the Georgia game?

1 in the College Football Playoff rankings](https://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/college/university-of-tennessee/football/2022/11/01/tennessee-football-is-no-1-in-college-football-playoff-ranking/69593055007/) this week, it’s an 8.5-point underdog at Georgia (8-0, 5-0) on Saturday (3:30 p.m. 1 in scoring offense (49.4) and total offense (553.0). And that’s precisely the Vols’ comfort zone. Georgia has been a regular in the College Football Playoff rankings. The loser must win its remaining games and hope for help to make the playoff, although the Vols’ No. And the Vols’ blowouts over inferior opponents have been larger than expected. [Tennessee](https://www.knoxnews.com/sports/govolsxtra/) had the [No. The winner of this game will control its destiny to the SEC title game and College Football Playoff. Neither did coaches in the USA TODAY Sports AFCA Coaches Poll. [Capture the thrills of Tennessee football's epic 2022 season with our special new book -- and save 20% by ordering today! And they said that at the time. Media members didn’t put Tennessee in the preseason AP Top 25.