Some enthusiasts might consider Tennessee’s next game with Kentucky as the proverbial “cheating game. “
The past flight game opposite Georgia. After Kentucky comes Alabama.
They are the two most sensible groups in 3 games, which can put Kentucky for a surprise.
Counterpoint: As more UT enthusiasts would point out, “This is Kentucky. “
Tennessee beat Kentucky at the worst and bad times. The rate of good fortune has been staggering.
In the last 55 games against the Wildcats, Tennessee has lost six times.
Kentucky coach Mark Stoops deserves a lot of credit for what he did in the shadow of a “basketball school. “He recruited more than the maximum of his predecessors. So is the tenacity and trust of the Wildcats.
But it did not replace the course of the Tennessee series.
Kentucky ended a 26-game losing streak against the Vols in 2011 with Joker Phillips as coach and an open receiving quarterback. However, the fantastic turmoil has not led to much. Flights won the next five games with an average of 43 points. They also won seven of the last eight games before Saturday’s game at Neyland Stadium.
The show’s ultimate revealing fact: in recent years, with Kentucky on bass Stoops, Tennessee has had more difficulty beating Vanderbilt than the Wildcats.
The record is the only explanation for why Tennessee is expected to face Kentucky on Saturday.
Flights got off to a terrible start in the 2019 season: they lost to a 25-point loser from Georgia State and took the lead in a last-minute loss to BYU.
But just as a crisis loomed, UT turned a 2-5 start into an 8-5 season. The flights completed this by doing what they didn’t do in the first two games this season. were destined to beat.
The trend continued in the 2020 season, which flights opened winning against the disadvantaged in South Carolina and Missouri. They had won eight consecutive games, all opposed to decreasing the wary parties, before passing through Georgia on Saturday.
Flights are disorder-proof. But they haven’t lost as favorites since he started 0-2 in 2019.
You may wonder how the Flight will react after the unilateral defeat to Georgia, I guess their reaction will be comparable to last season’s, they will beat the groups they intend to win.
Most of last week’s UT disorders can be attributed to Georgia’s dominant defense, which resumed play in the middle of the moment. There’s no defense of this caliber on the Tennessee calendar.
In fact, the top rival defenses don’t look far from Missouri, which the Flights controlled relatively easily in a 35-12 victory.
Kentucky’s 24-2 victory over Mississippi State last week says more about the Bulldogs’ offense than about defending the Wildcats. The Mississippi State offensive was only effective in its first game of the season opposed to LSU. .
And we also know what’s going on in the Tennessee-Kentucky series.
John Adams is a senior columnist. You can be contacted at 865-342-6284 or john. adams@knoxnews. com. Follow him on: twitter. com/johnadamskns.