[Game Thread] #11 Tennessee @ Florida - September 16, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET

Home	Away	Time	Venue	Notes
Florida	¹¹Tennessee	Sat 9/16, 7:00 PM ET	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium	Third Saturday in September

That felt like a classic 3rd and Grantham. Good times

I see my check to the refs cleared. Excellent.

I fucking hate this game, I hate the gators, I hate the whole state of florida. Again what has been so frustrating about TN is the parts still click every now and then. Offensively we looked dominant on the first drive and then for most of the second half. Unfortunately fl just exposed our secondary. Defensive front looks ok, but not enough to make up for the secondary. Yeah some bad calls, but we aren't a good enough team to blame those calls, we commited most of them clearly. I just hope this doesn't cause bvs to kick in and the fanbase to start being more stupid than normal. O line better get it's shit sorted.

If it makes you feel better, there's some lovely punting in the TCU/UH game.
- Yeah in the same way a water bottle technically helps with a forest fire

Wow I have not had the time to check in on this game, looks like the Swamp Voodoo is real? How have the Vols been looking?

First drive we looked incredible. Since then we've looked... not

More seriously, it's CFB, so the tables could turn REAL quick, but right now it looks like Florida is in UT's head.

Yeah this is exactly what I was hoping that first drive would help us avoid

Aussie punters are one of the best additions to CFB in the last 20 years. Even the bad ones are fun.

The last solid that shithead Urban did for Florida was drafting Travis Etienne in Jax (go Jags!), prompting his little brother to sign with the closest P5 school.

O/

Ooof. Well... nice drive, hillbillies. Dammit.

I'll wait to celebrate until it's final. But hopefully this keeps up, swamp people

Ricky Pearsall is going to DOMINATE the XFL or USFL.

I cannot let the XFL be the butt of jokes, it's too fun a league. USFL is fair game though
- I like the XFL a lot. USFL is too sterile. You have to find that exact mix of "somebody cares about the outcome" and minor-league hijinks. The XFL gets way closer to that than the studio-TV show that is the USFL.

Well, Furk.

Goddammit, now I'm starting to believe again.

I wonder if IBM's watsonx people are angry about the twitter rebrand making it look like their ai platform is a twitter thing.

No that wasn't catchable, good no call

Three score game... alright alright alright.

(Please don't collapse. Please don't collapse.)

alright alright alright
Hey, that's our thing. Now I'm going to have to find a way to steal Riff Ram
- That's the beauty of it. NOBODY knows how to steal Riff Ram.

"I'm 5-0 against TN"

Fuck you mullen

Fuck you mullen
We can agree on that much.

god. fucking. damnit

Sorry friend, I was pulling for y’all

Never a fan of booing an injury, even a suspected fake. Poor form, fellow Gators.

Johnson patiently waits for the hole

Florida D-Line "not the twitchiest" = "by football standards, they're bunch of lardasses."

I'm impressed that UT managed not to run into the punter.

I really hate that OOB doesn't stop the clock until 2:00 left.

Yeah it keeps fucking me up. Like my brain can understand the 1st down, but out of bounds not stopping the clock is just insane

Well crap, there's the Milton that Vols like.

Florida has to get a real special teams coordinator after this shit, right?

It's hard to put together a ST unit good enough to win you games, but it's real fuckin' easy to have one bad enough to lose them.

Did homeboy have TWO mouthguards?

Joe Milton giveth. Joe Milton taketh away.

(works for both teams)

This TO is petty by Heupel and I'm here for it. You don't owe your opponent shit.

Florida Man DGAF.

I still don't know how we won, but it was probably the boiled peanuts I made this week.

Congrats on the win, I hope it's your last of the season
- Thanks, there were some really promising moments for Tennessee tonight. and so much still to build on for the season.
  I hope your entire program crumbles and you're voted out of the SEC.
It's a lot easier to stomach being bad when we're still somehow less bad than the vols
- Way more of my CFB fandom is schadenfreude than any other sport I follow. Go Gators.

Oh yes. None of you have any idea of what obnoxious Gator fans look like in the full flower of our delusion.

GO GATA!

Nothing more sneaky-fun than when your team gets another crack at third down due to your own cheating, and then you convert.

It's a theme with us

Yup, just how we drew it up defensively on Friday

volcast

Well, at least you warned us.

If Milton can connect big on this drive we have a chance to neutralize the crowd I'd say

YES

Oh that's not good

Vols tackling well for the most part.

We have an ELITE kick block unit

I was not even done with my obnoxious, premature gloating comment when we fucked up the PAT, LOL.

It was a super nice run, though.

Generous spot, but I'll take it!

Yeah, florida voodoo

When aggressive defenses work, boy do they work

I'm so excited I'm gonna throw up

Florida Man ain't got nothin' to lose... unless it's close in the 4th.

We don't need no special teams!

And yet, I wouldn't mind if they'd stop being total ass.

If this INT stands, I'm getting shitty tonight.

THERE'S the Joe Milton we all know and love.

Vols tackling well for the most part

You just had to say it

That is no joke, exactly what the doctor ordered

What a hit

O/

Well, that was an... interesting first half. :-)

I had this on the iPad for a little while as I was watching other games. I swear every time I glanced over at it Florida was in the red zone. I thought there was a glitch with my stream but realized the score kept going up

O/

Oline looks Overwhelmed

And the secondary looks helpless

Got the TCU game on the big TV and this one on a muted window. WTF did the announcers have to say about that last sequence?

You talking about the ref kicking the ball or the blindside block?
- Kinda all of it, including Joe acting like he had a free play after the holding was the only reason he had a chance to force Florida to accept and give them another down.

A consistent team can overcome these penalties. We cannot

Love it when Bru does that

Lmao, fucking legend

So how is he meant to throw a block there?

Gotta have a stop here

Oh... Oh my.

I cannot believe they played tusk during a tn themed commercial

Heupel looking frustrated.

I feel him lol

I'm sorry but if you're gonna try and run out the clock you don't get to act like that when someone forces you to go down

Pathetic cheap shot.
- I mean I'll have to go back and watch it, but I thought it was a hand lead shove that admittedly came after the knee went down but only just. If you don't take that knee right away I think the defense has every right to treat you as a runner.

I think Florida... didn't fuck it up? What is this feeling?

Oh boy I really hope those 2 timeouts from earlier don't bite us

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