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Tennessee Football Just PROVED Something MASSIVE In Georgia Tech BLOWOUT! | Vols · SEC Football Addiction

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  Speaker 1: Faison Brandon's first road pass as a college quarterback was
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown. His second one might have been a mistake
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  Speaker 1: that was waiting to happen. Tennessee opened this game exactly
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  Speaker 1: the way a two-touchdown favorite is supposed to. Fast, clean,
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  Speaker 1: and confident. But then Georgia Tech clawed all the way
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  Speaker 1: back to lead by the end of the first quarter.
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  Speaker 1: And then Tennessee remembered why they were two-touchdown favorites in
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  Speaker 1: the first place. Final score of our game is 45-24 tonight.
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  Speaker 1: But the way you got there tells you a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot more than the final score does. So let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about it. We are SEC Football Addiction. We hope you're
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  Speaker 1: road test of the season for Josh Heupel. The first
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  Speaker 1: road test of Faison Brandon's entire career. And I know
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  Speaker 1: what happened last week with Georgia Tech, but it is
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  Speaker 1: not some cupcake road trip. It is Bobby Dodd Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: It's a building that Tennessee hadn't played in two decades.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not some cupcake road trip. It's Bobby Dodd Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: It's a building that Tennessee hadn't played in for close
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  Speaker 1: to 40 years on Georgia Tech's home turf in front
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  Speaker 1: of a crowd that had every reason to be loud.
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  Speaker 1: Both teams were coming off of wildly different week one experiences.
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee dismantled Furman. Brandon looked like a three-year starter instead
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  Speaker 1: of a true freshman. He had five total touchdowns. They
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  Speaker 1: had over 600 yards of offense, a defense that logged
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  Speaker 1: a ton of sacks. Georgia Tech, meanwhile, was still sitting
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  Speaker 1: with the sting of the cruelest kind of loss. They
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  Speaker 1: were up late against Colorado. They were 37 seconds away
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  Speaker 1: from a signature win. A blocked field goal at the
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  Speaker 1: buzzer ended up doing them in. and sending them to 0-1.
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  Speaker 1: The guy who blocked that kick, by the way, used
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  Speaker 1: to wear orange and white, Boo Carter, a former defensive
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  Speaker 1: tackle from Tennessee that transferred to Colorado in the offseason,
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  Speaker 1: ended Georgia Tech's night on the final play. There was
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  Speaker 1: a coordinator storyline underneath all of this, too. Jim Knowles
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  Speaker 1: is calling plays for Tennessee's defense in just his second
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  Speaker 1: game in Rocky Top, and George Godsey is doing the
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  Speaker 1: same for Georgia Tech's offense. Two new play callers. They're
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  Speaker 1: both still figuring out their rosters just two games into
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  Speaker 1: the year, which made the wild swings in this one
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  Speaker 1: maybe a little less surprising in hindsight. And Georgia Tech's
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  Speaker 1: quarterback situation carries a college football name that many fans
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  Speaker 1: will be familiar with. Alberto Mendoza, the younger brother of Fernando,
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  Speaker 1: last year's Heisman, last year's number one NFL draft pick,
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  Speaker 1: and last year's national championship winning quarterback. Big shoes to
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  Speaker 1: fill and only his second career start. So I thought
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Tech came into this one with something to prove
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  Speaker 1: in front of their own fans against a program that
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  Speaker 1: used to own this rivalry before a 40-year gap wiped
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  Speaker 1: it out. History was on Tennessee's side on that too,
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  Speaker 1: for what it's worth. The last time these two played
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  Speaker 1: back in 2017, Tennessee stopped a two-point conversion in double
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  Speaker 1: overtime to escape Atlanta 42-41. That was a game that
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Tech's offense dominated statistically and still somehow lost. Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: fans remember exactly how fast this series can turn ugly.
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  Speaker 1: And for exactly a quarter tonight, it looked like this
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  Speaker 1: game might turn ugly. First takeaway in this is the
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  Speaker 1: fast start wasn't enough, almost. Georgia Tech opens the game
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  Speaker 1: with the ball and Tennessee's defense makes them pay for
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  Speaker 1: it immediately. Things got nearly pretty sloppy fast. Georgia Tech's
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  Speaker 1: punts gets away from Moss, who muffs it before diving
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  Speaker 1: on his own mistake to keep Tennessee's night from getting
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  Speaker 1: complicated in the first two minutes. First play from scrimmage
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  Speaker 1: for the Vols, a Deshaun Bishop run for 33 yards.
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  Speaker 1: Two plays later, Brandon drops back for the first pass
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  Speaker 1: of his college career on the road. He finds a
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  Speaker 1: wide-open receiver down the seam, 25-yard touchdown. All of a sudden, boom,
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  Speaker 1: it's 7-0 Tennessee. The gates are still lined with people
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  Speaker 1: outside of it. People haven't even gotten all the way
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  Speaker 1: to their seats. before that 25-yard touchdown pass. In the
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  Speaker 1: second week in a row, Brandon opened the game by
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  Speaker 1: finding a touchdown look pretty easy. It was about as
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  Speaker 1: clean of a start as you could script, but then
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  Speaker 1: it got a little messy. Somewhere in the back half
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  Speaker 1: of that first quarter, Tennessee's punt team gets one blocked,
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  Speaker 1: and Georgia Tech scoops it up for a touchdown of
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  Speaker 1: their own. Add in a field goal to that that
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  Speaker 1: they had scored earlier, And Georgia Tech is leading 10-7.
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  Speaker 1: A building that every reason existed already to be loud
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  Speaker 1: got a lot louder. And a true freshman quarterback making
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  Speaker 1: his first road start is suddenly staring at a deficit
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  Speaker 1: that he didn't create. That is the exact kind of
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  Speaker 1: moment that can spiral. A special team's mistake erases a
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  Speaker 1: clean opening drive. The crowd smells blood and a freshman
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  Speaker 1: starts pressing. It is. Worth remembering that in this game,
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee got senior linebacker Aaron Carter back for this game.
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  Speaker 1: He missed the Furman opener, serving that BS NCAA suspension.
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  Speaker 1: He's a captain. He's a veteran presence. He returned to
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  Speaker 1: a defense that was about to need every bit of
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  Speaker 1: composure that it could find inside of a hostile building. However,
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  Speaker 1: none of that messiness really got away from the Vols.
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  Speaker 1: And that is my second takeaway that I'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: The real story of tonight's game is 24 points unanswered.
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  Speaker 1: Here's how Tennessee answered getting punched in the mouth by
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  Speaker 1: their own special teams unit. 24 points. A pick six.
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  Speaker 1: The 15th defensive touchdown, if my count is correct, of
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  Speaker 1: the Josh Heupel era at Tennessee. The 12th off of
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  Speaker 1: an interception. Faison wasn't done either. A 20-yard pass to
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  Speaker 1: Braylon Staley. 24-10. 17 points unanswered there at that point.
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  Speaker 1: And you'd held Georgia Tech's offense, the one that actually
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  Speaker 1: showed something to start this game. And he held Georgia
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  Speaker 1: Tech's offense down pretty well. Their crowd was pretty silent
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  Speaker 1: by this point. Tennessee got the ball back to start
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  Speaker 1: the third quarter, and guess who? Deshaun Bishop marches the
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  Speaker 1: offense back down the field, finishes it off with a
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  Speaker 1: 17-yard touchdown, and all of a sudden, it's 31-10. That's
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  Speaker 1: 24 unanswered points across a quarter and a half of football.
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  Speaker 1: And at that moment, Georgia Tech's crowd that was rocking
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  Speaker 1: after the first quarter had nothing left to cheer about.
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  Speaker 1: Add everything together, Tennessee's total on third down was eight
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  Speaker 1: for 14. They were one for one on fourth down.
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  Speaker 1: That was the kind of situational football that turns a
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  Speaker 1: shaky first quarter into a laugher by the final stanza.
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  Speaker 1: And here's why that stretch to me matters a lot
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  Speaker 1: more than the final score does. Anyone with a two-touchdown
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  Speaker 1: talent gap can win a game. What you actually want
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  Speaker 1: to know about a team in September is how they
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  Speaker 1: respond when something goes wrong, something that's completely out of
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  Speaker 1: their control. Tennessee's punt team handed Georgia Tech a touchdown
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of the momentum in this game. The
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  Speaker 1: reason that it didn't turn into anything worse is that
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  Speaker 1: their response was not to panic. It was a defensive score.
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  Speaker 1: It was an offensive score. And then it was a
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  Speaker 1: third quarter gut punch to close the door. That's poise
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  Speaker 1: that you don't often get from a true freshman quarterback
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  Speaker 1: in his first road start. And that matters because takeaway
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  Speaker 1: three is about what the box score tells us going forward.
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  Speaker 1: The numbers tell us that this was a team win.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the stat sheet. Because it tells a much
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  Speaker 1: more complete story than road freshman quarterback wins a big game.
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  Speaker 1: Brandon was 10 of 21 for 148 yards, two touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: and no interceptions. That was a good day for him,
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  Speaker 1: but it wasn't a great one by any means. He
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  Speaker 1: had 22 yards on the ground. He was efficient when
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  Speaker 1: he needed to be, but he put up good numbers,
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  Speaker 1: not gaudy numbers. This wasn't the same explosive, nearly flawless
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  Speaker 1: version of Brandon that we saw torch Furman. Georgia Tech
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  Speaker 1: is a different opponent. They made him work for it.
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  Speaker 1: He had up and down stretches. He had a lower
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  Speaker 1: completion rate. He had a game that looked far more
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  Speaker 1: like a genuine power for fight than a rerun of
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  Speaker 1: that Furman blowout. What bailed out inconsistent passing at times
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  Speaker 1: was Deshaun Bishop. He brought it tonight, 147 yards, seven
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  Speaker 1: and a half yards per rush. He capped off his
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  Speaker 1: big night with a huge rushing touchdown with 425 left
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  Speaker 1: in the game. You added one more for good measure
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  Speaker 1: with just over a minute to go. Tennessee finished the
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  Speaker 1: game with just a tick under 300 yards, rushing 299 yards.
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  Speaker 1: The passing game was not humming at the level that
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  Speaker 1: you might have expected after week one, but the run
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  Speaker 1: game carried the load. And that's the kind of complimentary
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  Speaker 1: football that wins in November, not just in September. On
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  Speaker 1: the other side of the ball, I'm more than happy
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  Speaker 1: to give Alberto Mendoza some credit. 26 of 40, 221 yards.
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  Speaker 1: I think that was a respectable total for him. He
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  Speaker 1: was playing in his second career start. He was playing
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  Speaker 1: against a ranked opponent's pass rush, and we all know
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  Speaker 1: how good that can be. His two interceptions, including that
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  Speaker 1: pick six, are kind of what flipped this game. They're
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  Speaker 1: the kind of mistakes that make a competitive first quarter
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  Speaker 1: a rout. Georgia Tech actually finished with 350-plus yards of
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  Speaker 1: total offense. It's not a terrible number. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: that came late when they scored a couple of touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: when they were already out of it. But I thought
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  Speaker 1: they did a pretty good job offensively, just trying to
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  Speaker 1: keep themselves in a game. And outside of those turnovers,
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  Speaker 1: it might have been that. So what do you actually
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  Speaker 1: take from a 45-24 win on the road against an
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  Speaker 1: 0-2 team? I don't think this is a signature win.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a playoff resume builder. What you take
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  Speaker 1: is this. Tennessee can survive some ugly moments. They can
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  Speaker 1: survive an absolutely catastrophic mistake on special teams. They can
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  Speaker 1: absorb a deficit in a hostile building. They can still
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  Speaker 1: move the ball when their quarterback's not the sharpest because,
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  Speaker 1: let's be frank, at times he's not going to be
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  Speaker 1: as a true freshman. And they can still find a
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  Speaker 1: way in a hostile building to do all of those
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  Speaker 1: things and win a football game. A defensive touchdown, passing touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns, a dominant second half on the ground. It
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  Speaker 1: was a different problem than last week presented, but it
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  Speaker 1: was a different answer too. Every single time Georgia Tech
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  Speaker 1: threatened to make it interesting, Tennessee had an answer. And
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  Speaker 1: that is a program that has more than one way
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  Speaker 1: to beat you. And with SEC play right around the corner,
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  Speaker 1: that's the kind of versatility that this team is going
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  Speaker 1: to need. There's a bigger picture worth sitting with. Georgia
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  Speaker 1: Tech is now 0-2 to start the season. And both
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  Speaker 1: losses have the same fingerprints all over them. They're a
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  Speaker 1: competitive team. That's good enough to hang with quality opponents,
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  Speaker 1: but they keep losing in the margins. Tennessee is able
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  Speaker 1: to win in those same margins. For the Vols, the
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  Speaker 1: lesson is the opposite. This was not a masterpiece by
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  Speaker 1: any means. The passing game wasn't the same explosive unit
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  Speaker 1: that we saw last week against inferior competition. Georgia Tech's
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  Speaker 1: defense made this a full fight for a quarter and
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  Speaker 1: a half. But a team that can absorb those kind
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  Speaker 1: of mistakes, they fall behind in a raucous environment and
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  Speaker 1: still find three completely different ways to pull away. One
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  Speaker 1: through the air, one on the ground, and one in
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  Speaker 1: the turnover column. That's a team that's built to survive
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  Speaker 1: ugly weeks that are coming in SEC play. For being honest,
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Tech had this game right where they wanted it
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  Speaker 1: after a quarter of play. They had a road favorite
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  Speaker 1: freshman QB down on the scoreboard. They had a sold-out
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  Speaker 1: crowd finally getting loud in a building that hadn't seen
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee in four decades. Every ingredient for the kind of
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  Speaker 1: upset that gets talked about for years in Atlanta. And
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  Speaker 1: then Tennessee spent the next 45 minutes making sure that
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  Speaker 1: nobody remembers that part. A pick six, a touchdown pass,
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  Speaker 1: multiple rushing touchdowns. It took a lot of the air
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  Speaker 1: out of the building. And when the passing game cooled off,
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  Speaker 1: Deshaun Bishop just put the game on his back and
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  Speaker 1: ran through it. It was a career night. It turned
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  Speaker 1: a competitive road game into a very comfortable one. 45-24
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  Speaker 1: doesn't tell you Georgia Tech led at one point. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't tell you that a freshman quarterback had his roughest
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  Speaker 1: completion percentage of the young season. It just tells you
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  Speaker 1: who was still standing at the end. Tennessee is 2-0.
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  Speaker 1: And the margins that separated those two records between 2-0
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  Speaker 1: and 0-2 for Georgia Tech are the kind of margins
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  Speaker 1: that the Vols team is going to need to keep
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  Speaker 1: controlling once SEC play shows up. Thought this was a
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  Speaker 1: really good win for Tennessee tonight. I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: a lot that they can build on. Kennesaw State next
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  Speaker 1: week gives you another opportunity to build, and then you
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  Speaker 1: all know what's coming two weeks after that. You guys
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  Speaker 1: saw what Texas did tonight. That is a team that
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  Speaker 1: can be beaten, but it's going to take a really
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  Speaker 1: good effort from the Vols. My plan is to be
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  Speaker 1: in Knoxville for that game. So continue to shoot me
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  Speaker 1: while I'm in Knoxville. I appreciate you guys for tuning in.
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