A big night for the Big Orange – and Barbara’s baby boy
Tyler Bray's weird non-touchdown at the end of the first half. (AP photo by John Amis)
Her younger son is beginning his third season as Tennessee’s coach, but the sight of Barbara Dooley in orange still serves as a shock to the senses. For the first night of the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Classic, the former grande dame of Georgia football came wearing the following:
Orange jacket. White blouse. White slacks. White sandals with orange piping, or whatever it is you call that mesh stuff on the top of women’s sandals.
Her husband, who once made his red-and-black living trying to squeeze the daylights out of the Big Orange, came more sedately clad. Vince Dooley had on khaki pants, a white polo shirt and white socks with Birkenstocks. (OK, I’m kidding about the footwear.)
“I’m doing fine now,” Barbara Dooley said, speaking 30 minutes before kickoff. “But in two hours I might not be.”
Ninety minutes later, Derek Dooley’s Vols were leading North Carolina State 22-7, having scored 16 points in 38 seconds. And I know what you’re saying: “Sixteen points in 38 seconds — two touchdowns and two two-point conversions, right?” Nope. It was wilder than that.
Get the picture: N.C. State leads 7-6 and, with 1:31 remaining in the longest first quarter in the history of humankind, faces fourth-and-3 at the Tennessee 35. Convert here and State has a chance to establish a working lead, and Wolfpack receivers have already displayed the capacity to shake free of Tennessee’s coverage, such as it is.
But not this time. Mike Glennon, whose quarterbacking brother Sean presided over a famous second-half collapse by Virginia Tech in the 2006 Chick-fil-A Bowl against Georgia, throws a pretty awful interception. Then Tyler Bray up and hits a Volunteer receiver named Rogers — through not Da’Rick Rogers, the infamous recruit from Calhoun, Ga. — for 72-yard touchdown. (For the record, the Rogers in question is named Zach.)
Some turnaround, huh? Fourth-down interception, first-down touchdown. Wait. It gets wilder. On the Pack’s next snap, Mike Glennon drops to throw and, for reasons unclear, holds the ball and retreats toward his end zone, whereupon he loses the ball, which is recovered by a State lineman but yields a safety. Now the Pack trails 15-7 and has to kick the ball to Tennessee, which again requires all of one play to score.
This time it’s a pretty reverse to the receiver Cordarrelle Patterson, who’d already scored on a 41-yard reception. This 67-yard run puts Tennessee ahead 22-7, and here we pause for both breath and perspective: Three snaps have yielded three Vol scores. Whoa, Nelly.
But wait. It would get wilder still. State scored to draw within 22-14. The Vols moved to the Wolfpack 1 inside the final 30 seconds of the half. Bray sought to sneak for score but was hit in the backfield. He tried to extend the ball over the goal line — breaking the plane, as it were — but saw the ball knocked from his grasp. State recovered.
Replay was consulted, and one angle appeared to show the ball still in Bray’s hands above the plane. But Tennessee wasn’t granted its touchdown, prompting a massive roar from those in orange, who outnumbered those in State red 2-to-1. In all, it was a suitable (not to say clinical) ending to a first half that saw 586 yards gained.
For Barbara’s baby boy, it was a flying start to an important autumn. Derek Dooley had lost 14 of his first 25 games at Tennessee, and last season the Vols could win only one SEC game — that against Vanderbilt, that in overtime. Another halting season could leave Dooley the Younger looking for work.
But Tennessee, it must be said, looked pretty spiffy against an opponent that has been pegged as a potential ACC sleeper. They shrugged off their end-of-the-half gaffe to score twice more in the third quarter, building their lead to 32-14. They ran faster, hit harder and looked, not to put too fine a point on it, like a mid-table SEC team is supposed to look against an opponent from that presumed lesser league.
Through three quarters, Tennessee had outgained State by 141 yards, but the job wasn’t quite done. The Wolfpack scored early in the fourth to draw within 11 points, and if ever teams had reason to believe anything was possible, these two did. Sixteen points in 38 seconds, remember?
The rest of the game, perhaps mercifully, was rather tame. State wouldn’t score again. Tennessee would add a field goal. The Vols won 35-21, which happened to be the score of Boise State’s victory over Georgia in this event last season. This game, for what it’s worth, was far more entertaining than that monstrosity.
By Mark Bradley
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VolCall
August 31st, 2012
11:18 pm
The Vols are back! mark this down–the vols will upset fl and ga and win the SEC east! Bray–best QB in the SEC!!!!
G
August 31st, 2012
11:18 pm
The ACC plays some bad football
Boots
August 31st, 2012
11:19 pm
Big win for the SEC. However, the Vols will still get clobbered in league play.
Huh?
August 31st, 2012
11:20 pm
Another good win over an ACC opponent.
Only in Moultrie
August 31st, 2012
11:21 pm
tennessee looked good. nice article.
Huh?
August 31st, 2012
11:23 pm
Tyler Bray might be the best at throwing the long ball that I’ve seen in a long while…very accurate.
Run game looked imporved…Patterson makes everyone forget about Da’rick Rogers…that guy looks legit. Defense grabs 4 pics against a tall senior quarterback..
Looks like the Vols are definately headed in the right direction….and might upset a team or two.
Buzz2011
August 31st, 2012
11:25 pm
Does UGA play UT? If they do, mark down another Dog lose to go along with the other five games they drop. The dogs will not beat UT this year even with a Dooley as coach
Craigee, aka Champs hero
August 31st, 2012
11:41 pm
Buzz2011, you idiot, UGA plays Tennessee every year. They are both in the SEC East. Time for you to rub one out and go to bed.
cloudodust
August 31st, 2012
11:46 pm
As a Vol fan, I was pleased to see the kicking game (albeit indoors) take a big swing into the positive. That’s +1 from last year. +2 is the departure of Dumb’Rick, the void filled by Patterson and Zach Rogers stepping up. +3 was Marlin Lane pushing Rajon Neal to hit the dang hole. +4 was coming out in the 2nd half and taking care of business. -1 was watching the new 3-4 go through it’s growing pains (I feel it will take the season to work it out but tonight, it worked good enough). +5 is 1-0. GBO
mike addington
August 31st, 2012
11:46 pm
Barbara Dooley on stage: very cool. Off stage: not what you think, surprised and disappointed to say. Vince, he’s the same no matter where you with him
Let's Be Real
August 31st, 2012
11:47 pm
UT will flounder against conference opponents and will close out the season with another losing record. Dooley is gone–he just doesn’t know it yet.
Gen Neyland
August 31st, 2012
11:49 pm
I won’t say, ‘We’re back” but it was a good start…Too bad Chick-fil-A didn’t drop 100,000 Orange and White ballons post game. GBO
Atlanta Vol
August 31st, 2012
11:50 pm
Whew…..great game! Vols looked very good against a very good team. Da’rick who? Patterson is a beast…Go Vols!
BigDawg
August 31st, 2012
11:50 pm
Huh? Great spelling! You must be 1 of 3 students in the state who did not graduate from high school. Sigh…
Tide Rising
August 31st, 2012
11:51 pm
This vol team would definitely have beat the dawgs tonight. Vandy looked pretty tough the other night even if they did lose. Between Vandy and UT I don’t think there’s any question that at least one of them beats the dawgs. If the vols can get there defensive secondary to play a little better they could easily be the surprise of the east.
Tide Rising
August 31st, 2012
11:52 pm
vols definitely look better than the dawgs. Looks to me like either they or vandy will beat uga this year. Course beating UGA aint nothing to be braggin bout.
RomeBigOrange
August 31st, 2012
11:53 pm
Vols are much improved. Patterson, Hunter and Bray…..look out!
Running game is much improved but still work to be done. Prayers out to the Tennessee fan that fell!
aubietiger
August 31st, 2012
11:55 pm
Congratulations to Tennessee. Glad you beat the ACC. Now we are going to take care of another ACC team tomorrow night. Vols will make alot of noise in the East this year. War Eagle!
Mike Bell 790
August 31st, 2012
11:56 pm
FIRST!!!
Huh?
August 31st, 2012
11:58 pm
Big Dawg…anyone who has read my posts would know that I am fairly articulate.
Pointing out a typo might bring you some sort of happiness, but is a sure sign of either not having anything constructive to say, or insecurity on your part.
SEC Fact Finder
September 1st, 2012
12:07 am
Big Win for the SEC. A week or so ago people were writing off Dooley and his Vols after DaRick Rogers decided the drugs were higher priority than his football teammates. Practically everyone of the Talking Heads said that without Rogers that Hunter would not be able to get open being double teamed, then came along Patterson who WAS open and now others will have defend the two big Wideouts and their slot reciever.
Does this mean The Vols will be a team to reckon with? No one should be saying that, the biggest improvements are said to become weeks 1 and weeks 2. After week 3 or 4 we should know how good Tennessee and many other are. Their defense looked spotty and their safeties did not play well in the first half, their defensive line and linebackers were aggressive against a team who did not run the ball that well.
All and all, I think teams like Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Missorui, South Carolina, Florida and Georgia all could beat each other up and shake up the east side of the league. Momentum is a big big thing in college football and beating a decent school always makes those hot summer days of running, and hitting seem a little cooler.
Good luck to All of your teams and Go SEC!
Josh Smith for 3
September 1st, 2012
12:08 am
Glad I picked Tennessee to win tonight. Cordarelle Patterson is a lanky, weird lookin’ dude, but he’s a heck of a receiver. Good to see UT looking competitive in the SEC again.
oh brother!
September 1st, 2012
12:20 am
LOL…Rocky Top. Give me a break. UT looked sloppy against a weak ACC opponent. Nothing is back. MARK THAT DOWN!
Let's laugh
September 1st, 2012
12:26 am
Some idiot says, “The Vols are back” after beating NCS. Yeah and Fat Phil was a great coach.
Let's laugh
September 1st, 2012
12:29 am
I hate that Boise lost to MSU. End of the year, BSU will be ranked higher than MSU. MSU always finds a way to blow their season and BSU just knocked themselves out of a BCS bowl most likely.
Huh?
September 1st, 2012
12:31 am
oh brother! and other UGA fans….
I am neither a UGA or UT fan, so I have no dog in the fight. It is funny, however, to watch UGA fans start slinging mud toward UT after a nice (even impressive) win. On this blog, I’ve already read how ACC teams play bad football, hot UT will be killed in SEC play, and now you saying that UT looked sloppy against a weak ACC opponent.
Why do I say it’s funny? Because it is pretty obvious that UGA fans always want to put down teams that might be good enough to beat their beloved Dawgs. The more you put down another SEC team, the more sure one can be that you are a little concerned.
Huh?
September 1st, 2012
12:32 am
Let’s laugh…thanks for proving my point.
Also…Fat Phil is now Hall Of Fame Fat Phil. Guess you gotta be a pretty good coach to get into the HOF
Joe
September 1st, 2012
12:40 am
Patterson looks to be worth every dollar that Ufk had to pay to get him.
Looks like Scu will have to settle for 3rd in the East now.
Let's laugh
September 1st, 2012
12:40 am
1 NC in how many years. Payton, no NCs. Nebraska hand him his a__. Was not relevant his last, what, 8 or 10 years. Owned by Spurrier….yeah he was a pretty good coach, just not a great coach. They should have fired him many years before they did.
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GB's Hamburgers
September 1st, 2012
12:43 am
Tennessee did ok but got a lot of help.
Joe
September 1st, 2012
12:44 am
How did Tom O’Brien manage to do so well at BC? This is his 4th or 5th year at NCST and they still stink.
Who was more out of shape in the first game, Amerson from NCST or Clowney from Scu. The flip side of the proliferation of hype that has inundated the high school and college game is that if a kid spends all summer reading about his greatness, someone is going to come in and whip his ass come fall.
7576DAWG
September 1st, 2012
12:45 am
Someone said that NCS was a good defensive team. What they failed to mention was NCS was a good team and had a good defense when you compare them to other ACC teams.
As much as a lot of people including myself were pulling for NCS , we all forgot they were playing a mid level SEC team. No contest.
Huh?
September 1st, 2012
12:45 am
Won 75% of his games in the toughest conference in the country. He was the 3rd winningest active coach when UT fired him. His team played in the SEC CG game the year before he was fired, and UT won 10 games that year. On top of the NC that you mentioned (along with other SEC titles).
Beat UGA the whold decade of the 90s…beat Bama several years in a row…owned by Spurrier? Who wasn’t at that time?
Huh?
September 1st, 2012
12:46 am
7576 Dawg…why were you pulling for NCS and not the SEC?
Boston dawg
September 1st, 2012
12:48 am
Not sure how one could say Tennessee looked better than Georgia when Georgia has yet to play a game.
I know sense, and that doesn’t make any.
Huh?
September 1st, 2012
12:50 am
Funny how UGA fans are now slinging mud at UT (NCS sucked…UT isn’t good…etc)…pretty predictable though. UGA fans always do that when a team looks like they might could beat UGA. Sure sign of concern.
Joe
September 1st, 2012
12:51 am
Nobody can dispute Fat’s success on the field. As far as being a shady scumbag, he is right at the top of the heap. Were it not for Roy Kramer defending him the entire decade of the 90’s, Ufk would have been on constant probation.
Got to be hard to sleep at night knowing that you made your living by harboring murderers like Leonard Little, Dwayne Goodrich and Dante Stallworth, but Fat never seemed to have to hard of time with it, just as he was ok with cutting Johnny Majors’ throat to steal his job.
I have almost felt bad for Ufk the last 10 years for being so terrible as a program, but just seeing the reaction of their po-dunk fans after beating a mediocre ACC team, I remember why nothing sucks like a big orange.
Huh?
September 1st, 2012
1:11 am
Joe…Little, Goodrich and Stallworth never did anything while at UT…UT was never in trouble with the NCAA…and Fulmer is a Christian man.
Me thinks you are a UGA fan, who didn’t like Fulmer because of the amount of times he whipped UGA’s butt.
Let's laugh
September 1st, 2012
1:39 am
Bowden wasn’t owned by Spurrier. Neither were Spurrier’s bowl opponents (6-5, what, an SEC coach 6-5 in bowls).
75% of his games, but did he win the critical, great coach defining games? Ah no. For example, he coached 3 teams in the conference championship during the 2000’s with no wins.
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DAWGS RULE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 1st, 2012
1:42 am
FUNNNY HOW WHEN TENNESSEE GETS A LITTLE SUCESS THEY THINK THEY ARE GONNA WIMN THE SEC BIG JOKE!THE DAWGS WILL WALK ON TENNESSEE IN ATHENS BUT BRING IT ON AS NO FRUIT SUCKS LIKE A BIG ORANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glory between the hedges
September 1st, 2012
1:44 am
Wow UT fans coming out?? I have not seen this since AOL was big time and you still chatted in chat rooms. I read a previous comment that was just plain stupid by tide rising..vols look better than the dawgs huh?? How about waiting until we atleast run a fricking play. Son you have no idea what the dawgs are going to look like yet.
Let's laugh
September 1st, 2012
1:44 am
Home/away designation for SEC Championship
The team designated as the “home” team alternates between division champions; the designation goes to the Eastern champion in even-numbered years and the Western champion in odd-numbered years.
Had a friend that played QB in high school. He said, in the huddle he would sometimes say, “Odd numbers go long, even numbers go short.” Auburn prospects, no likely.
Let's laugh
September 1st, 2012
1:55 am
How come the polsters never evaluate, or appear to evaluate the coach in their rankings.
Richt will blow something along the way. He does 8 out of 10 times.
Just like Phat Phil,
just like Lloyd Carr,
just like Bob Stoops,
just like OSU that couldn’t beat Michigan,
just like the Texas A&M coach that always blew something
just like KSU coach that left and came back (had dismal record against top 20 teams)
and on and on and on.
Whopper Dawg
September 1st, 2012
2:33 am
TN needed that. Good game kid Dooley. TN will be a very, tough out this year.
BalkansDawg
September 1st, 2012
3:26 am
I’m no fan of TN and I hope the Dawgs crush ‘em in Athens this year. But you can’t argue that they grabbed a good win last night. No, I don’t think “they’re back,” but IMHO that was a game they would have lost last season — not because of a lack of talent or coaching, but because of a lack of depth and a lack of heart to keep fighting in the face of adversity. The Vols didn’t have that the last two years. They still have depth issues and are working out the kinks of a new defense (don’t forget that, Vols fans; you still gave up 21 to a mid-level ACC team), but what last night showed is that Dooley has fixed the lack of heart that plagued TN in losses the last two years. It’s an intangible that counts for a lot; and I think that TN showed heart last night. So, as much as it pains me to say it, good for them. Now, do we know how good they really are? I don’t think so. Game 1 doesn’t show how good anyone really is. We probably won’t know that until they play FL in week three. I’ll hold my judgment until then. Of course, the same goes for the Dawgs… A win at Mizzou will go a long way to showing what these Dawgs are made of, but we may not know for sure until we play Vandy and TN in late September.
2_dawgs
September 1st, 2012
4:33 am
Always a pleasure to see SEC defeat a non-conference team. Bama next up.
PLEASE!!!!
September 1st, 2012
5:51 am
Tennessee beat a second rate team out of one the worst football conferences in the nation. .N.C.State has yet to have a wining record record in the past five years .Are the Vol fans so desperate ,they actually think there S.E.C. opponents are that big and slow as N.C.State?
Sorry vol fans when you hit the meat grinder of your S.E.C. teams you will quickly realize how bad N.C.State really is.
Buzz2011
September 1st, 2012
6:23 am
@Cragee boy.. Glad the Dogs play UT.. Now you know as well, the Dogs will lose that game as well. Sleep Rocky Top boy..
ZinoDawg
September 1st, 2012
6:28 am
Somebody forgot to teach the State defense how to tackle. They were pathetic!
tndawg
September 1st, 2012
6:29 am
A win is a win. NCS is no power house but UT did play a good game over all. I think they are improving and no doubt if they give Dooley a chance will return to glory days. But, I think if they don`t have a decent year Dooley will be canned.
Personally as a Dawg fan living in TN I must say that I hope they never return to glory days! I love collage football but around here in the fall there is so much orange I want to puck. And after a UT win there is even more.
GO DAWGS!!!!
vandy got robbed
September 1st, 2012
6:33 am
Huh? Meknows you have zero indication Joe is a Bulldog from his post. Methinks your a Dawg who poses as others and hates on his own team….Time and time again…
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Lane Kiffin
September 1st, 2012
6:48 am
Combine both teams and I’ll pound ‘em by 50! Throw in delusional UGA – anyone outside Athens think it’s an ”elite program?” – and I’ll hang 60 on ‘em!
jsmooth
September 1st, 2012
7:01 am
UT, You guys play a 2nd rate Amatuer Coast Conference team and win and all of a sudden, you are world beaters. Great win for Dooley and the program, however, welcome to the SEC!! We will see what this year holds with real football teams with speed and size. Patterson is all we heard about. Bray looked good also, I guess it was the bricks he through this past year. Strengthen his arm!
Vol-ley Ball
September 1st, 2012
7:09 am
Tennessee will smash their hobnail boots in UGA’s face this year. Richt’s thugs will go home crying their eyes out from the spanking their get.
tenn.DAWG
September 1st, 2012
8:15 am
Lets’s face it,any win for utk is big right now,but until they play uf I would wait to anoint them SEC East Champions.Tragic about the fan who died,I assume his family witnessed it,can’t imagine and puts things in perspective.
333
September 1st, 2012
8:26 am
Barbara is a good Mama. Good Mamas pull for their baby boys.
CHDawg
September 1st, 2012
8:26 am
Folks you have to objective. The Vols looked very strong, and SC looked much weaker than expected. It is just one game for both teams, but I was shocked by TN’s talent and play. I thought they beat NCS much worse than the scoreboard indicated. On SC, Vandy could be improving and they could have been flat. Shaw sure put in a valiant effort in the win, so it wasn’t all negative for the Gamecocks. You never know till you see ‘em play. One thing is sure: Vandy and TN both have good teams at the very least.
JakeVol
September 1st, 2012
8:27 am
A win is a win. Yes, the Vols are better.. They will beat someone in the SEC that they should not have beat. Wonder who it’s going to be?
Russo
September 1st, 2012
8:27 am
Let the Vals have their moment. Reality will smack them in the face soon enough.
CHDawg
September 1st, 2012
8:31 am
It is just one game, but I thought the Vols looked great last night. They beat NCS much worse than the scoreboard indicated imho. Go Dawgs.
Webster
September 1st, 2012
8:32 am
“Huh”
1- confused, bewildered
2- could you repeat, I did not hear
So, “Huh” is either “deaf”, or “dumb”
DP
September 1st, 2012
8:39 am
Bradley is such a Georgia homer that Tennessee’s coach isn’t Derek Dooley, it’s “Barbara Dooley’s baby boy”. Is there any other head coach who is primarily identified by who his parents are? Enough already.
1eyedJack
September 1st, 2012
8:41 am
Tennessee looked better to me than either SC or Vandy, but to put it in the proper perspective, it was against an ACC school.
juice sourcer
September 1st, 2012
8:48 am
I thought the Georgia/Boise State game was very entertaining. Small little school in Idaho comes into the heart of SEC country and knocks of Georgia with all their 4 and 5 star recruits. Who doesn’t love a story like that.
ngacane
September 1st, 2012
8:55 am
I don’t post to these things much. But after one game the BS has started. Guys, there are 11 games left. Enjoy the ride. Don’t be like the media picking the Champ after one game. They are like a YO -YO.
Yeah, right
September 1st, 2012
8:55 am
“Fulmer is a Christian man.”
Tell that to Johnny Majors.
GT
September 1st, 2012
8:58 am
Vince Dooley had the skill of playing over rated teams that made the record look good, I think Younger has inherited that skill. It wasn’t just Vince, Dodd could do the same thing. Steve Spurrier catches it for calling out an over rated team but to me it shows he has a eye for detail. The SEC has had less opportunity for this shot selection in recent years as they have kept the play outside their conference limited. Where people miss the value of this skill is the fact these guys can beat a team they are suppose to beat. Richt tried this with Colorado a couple of years ago and got beat. Give Richt credit he ran an easy schedule last year and got better results. Vince never played Alabama much when Bear was there either. Winning against anybody is the name of this game of college football. Derek just did that.
NCDawg
September 1st, 2012
9:00 am
The Vols were inconsistent. They can’t run the ball between the tackles. Bray has ball security issues. The defense was ok but not nearly to the level of the contenders. Tennessee will give some teams a run for their money but in the end a bowl trip will be the marker of a fair season. I think it should be enough to save Derek Dooley’s job for one more year, which may not be any kind of mercy at all. Next year the Vol fans will demand a SEC East title regardless of the realities of SEC football. I feel for the man. He was handed a bag of meadow muffins and after two mediocre seasons he is expected to win big again. He needs a stellar recruiting class or two to get to where the Orange maniacs expect him to be. I’m afraid he won’t be given that time.
Let's laugh
September 1st, 2012
9:02 am
a win is a win is the most ignorant phrase a football fan can blather. No, for the game to have merit, TN should have won by 4 touchdowns. To beat NCST by 14 is a measure of both teams.
Mark knows this, but his job is to create something out of nothing.
Huh?
September 1st, 2012
9:09 am
Let’s laugh….TN should have won by 4 touchdowns…interesting, since the line on the game was 3 points.
Huh?
September 1st, 2012
9:09 am
Yeah Right…what exactly did Fulmer do to Johnny Majors?
Winners and Losers
September 1st, 2012
9:15 am
If you are a fan of an SEC school and you are pulling for an outer conference team against a SEC team then you deserve to have your SEC Membership Card pulled.
A great deal of sad pathetic losers posting on here who are too dumb to realize it affects your schools BCS standings.
Huh?
September 1st, 2012
9:18 am
You can tell that UT must have done something pretty good last night….all the UGA fans are now on here blasting UT.
Apparently, it’s not ok if a UT fan judges their team after a victory, but it is ok for UGA fans to predict that UGA will destroy UT, even though their team has yet to play a down this year.
catlady
September 1st, 2012
9:22 am
What would be great is if every team that had to throw a rogue player or two off the roster wins, and wins big, to show that it doesn’t need to be recruiting such …
catlady
September 1st, 2012
9:24 am
It might show the coaches not to recruit such players as those from the start. Send them to Alabama State or wherever.
Let's laugh
September 1st, 2012
9:26 am
Huh? And Alabama was favored by 21 over LSU? No. Was a 21 point skunking a statement? Absolutely.
And anybody that watched the previous matchup of these teams knew Bama was a better team. But LSU got the win. A win is a win, horssh__. yeah right.
Mobile Dawg
September 1st, 2012
9:27 am
Just for openers, Congrats to UT, I hope Dooley restores a little of the pride there. Some pretty good opening weekend games already played and a few more to go.
Paul in NH
September 1st, 2012
9:28 am
A good win for UT last night. Winning 35-21 in the Chik-fil-A beats losing 35-21.
Maxwell the chihuahua hunter
September 1st, 2012
9:30 am
Hey Let’s Laugh…shut up and go cut the grass…
Wet Willie...keep on smiling
September 1st, 2012
9:32 am
UT will score points on most folks but #11 has to catch the ball better. #84 is a playa no doubt. Sal has done a great job with the UT defense but the problem is he has no depth at all in the defensive line and it showed. Not one fresh face to give the starters a break and this will be UT’s big problem as they progress this year. The jury is out on NCS and it really takes about 3/4 games to see just who is a playa and who is a pretender. I would say NCS is and will be average at best.
Best of luck to all your favorite teams….all but auburn…the most corrupt program in history. I hope Dabo blast the ghetto tigers from lee county.
Destin Dawg
September 1st, 2012
9:34 am
SEC East will be exciting !!! Tenn is improved , Vandy has high expectations, S.C. Clucks not so much with Shaw already beat up and no backup .. we’ll find out if we’re as good as advertised vs. Missouri at night in columbia… GO Dawgs !!
Let's laugh
September 1st, 2012
9:35 am
Maxwell, idiot screenname. Do you think it is funny. You’re are a clueless idiot.
I not gonna spend time flagging you but somebody will. What you wannt bet your posts disappear.
Huh?
September 1st, 2012
9:41 am
Let’s Laugh…I never said a win is a win…However, what does last year’s Bama/LSU game have to do with this? You said that UT should have won by 4 touchdowns. I said that the line on the game was only 3, so I am not sure why you said that.
Bottom line is, UT had a nice win. NCS is not a world beater, but not a patsy either. UT had over 500 yards of offense, 4 picks, 200 rushing yards, and made Vol fans forget about Duh’Rick. Plenty of things to work on, but still a nice win.
SEC Fact Finder
September 1st, 2012
9:45 am
If anyone is a fan, graduate or student of an SEC school and you are pulling for an outer conference team to beat one of SEC schools you need your SEC Membership card pulled. 3 Words…Strength of Schedule
It affects our teams and personally like them or not( even Auburn) as I a Bama Fan I will pulling for Every SEC team to lay beatings on everyone the SEC plays tonight.
Uh Huh
September 1st, 2012
9:45 am
It is what it is… two middling teams playing one another. Someone had to win.
NCDawg
September 1st, 2012
9:47 am
GT… the SEC has always had rotating schedules. Please actually know what you are talking about before you post horse hockey non-sense like this. UGA played Bama every year from 1958 to 1965, when UGA beat defending National Champion Alabama 18-17. The two teams didn’t meet again until 1972. Who do you think made that happen? It sure wasn’t 3rd year head coach Vince Dooley running from his first big victory. The two teams played each other 72 thru 74 and 76 and 77. The teams didn’t meet again until 1984… after the Bear had retired.
Prior to 1992 the SEC played 6 conference games… 5 permanent and 1 rotating. I’m sure you thought you were spouting pure wisdom from your point of view but as you can see your drivel about scheduling is just that…
7576DAWG
September 1st, 2012
9:50 am
Usually I don’t pull for an ACC team over an SEC team but the reason I was hoping that NCST’s defense was good enough to handle Tennessee was because Tyler Bray should not have been playing last night after the stunt he pulled . He would have missed two games if he was at Georgia.
Dooley was desperate and wanted to make such Tennessee started with a win. I will agree Bray looked good but who is running this team Dooley or Bray.
Let's laugh
September 1st, 2012
9:53 am
You used the line as an argument, correct. TN was favored by 3 and won by 14. I used the line as an argument. Neither Bama nor LSU was favored by 21 in the NC game, correct. For Bama to win by 21, was that a statement?
TN’s 14 point win over a lowly ACC opponent was not statement, but rather an ut oh.
NCST threw 4 picks. What good QB does that. And what were points off of turnovers.
Huh?
September 1st, 2012
9:53 am
Funny how UGA fans are now throwing dirt at UT. It’s pretty predicable though. UGA fans always do that when an SEC team looks like they might be could beat UGA. Sure sign of concern.
Paul in NH
September 1st, 2012
9:55 am
A 14 point win in your first game sure the heck beats a 14 point loss in your first game.
Huh?
September 1st, 2012
9:58 am
Let’s Laugh…You can say that NCS is a lowly ACC opponent…time will tell. I do know that they were predicted to make noise in the ACC this year.
Again, I don’t know what the Bama/LSU game has to do with it. I guess you could bring up any game where the line isn’t what you think it should have been after the fact. Most people thought that the UT/NCS game was going to be very close, but UT won by 2 touchdowns. Why do you care?
Bobby
September 1st, 2012
10:02 am
Overall a good game, but I hate that Chick-fil-gay sponsors the game.
Sid
September 1st, 2012
10:04 am
Congrats Vols!
Let's laugh
September 1st, 2012
10:06 am
NCDawg, you mention 58-65. Why? Vince first met the Beat in 64. You also fail to mention that the 65 game was an upset, Bear had a few, GT in 80 or 81, Miss St in 80 or 81. In fact, GA only won 2 SEC games that year. Obvious, Bama was not prepared for the lowly GA team.
You also fail to mention that the Bear was 4-2 against Dooley.
By the way, what was Bama’s rank at the end of 65 and was GA’s?
Dooley and Bear in the same post, sorry Bear for the dishonor.
Columbus
September 1st, 2012
10:08 am
Tide Rising needs to worry about the Tide because he obviously knows nothing about the rest of the SEC, particularly how they are going to mop the field with Tenn and Vandy. Vandy isnt sneaking up anyone and Tenn cant hang. Tide Rising better worry about LSU, Arkansas and Auburn because they was I see it is Bama DONT make the SEC Championship game AGAIN this year and DEFINITELY will not get a chance to play for the NC.
UGA WILL WIN THE EAST THE NEXT 5 YEARS TIDE RISING IMO AND DEFINITELY WIN IT THIS YEAR BARRING SIGNIFICANT KEY INJURY AND YOU CAN TAKE THAT TO THE BANK. BAMA WILL BE LOOKING FOR A NEW DC CAUSE SMART IS LIKELY. THERE IS A NEW TEAM IN THE TOP TIER OF SEC TEAMS AND IT IS THE GEORGIA BULLDOGS AND THEY WILL REMAIN SO FOR AS LONG AS RIGHT IS COACH. UGA FOOTBALL PROGRAM HAS NEVER BEEN IN AS STRONG SHAPE LOOKING AT THE FUTURE AS IT IS RIGHT NOW AND IT ONLY GETS BETTER NEXT YEAR AND THE NEXT AND THE NEXT AND THE NEXT…UGA WILL BE THERE.
NOT SAYING UGA IS BETTER THAN LSU OR BAMA, BUT THEY WILL BE RIGHT THERE BESIDE THEM EACH AND EVERY YEAR AND WILL GET A NC IN THE NEXT 5 YEARS…MUGHT BE THIS YEAR WITH THE DEFENSE AND WITH AN OFFENSE THAT CAN PUT POINTS UP…THERE IS A CHANCE……AND THE SEC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME WILL DECIDE IF IT IS THIS YEAR
Dawg Tired
September 1st, 2012
10:09 am
Speed kills. It will be interesting to see ow the Vols do against teams with as much, if not more, speed. NCSU was just way too slow to keep up at an SEC pace. Vols certainly looked formidable last night. They may be for real. Time will tell.
Maxwell the chihuahua hunter
September 1st, 2012
10:11 am
Hey Let’s Laugh…I recognize your kind…typical UGA fan…GED, big truck, big mouth, little man…sthu…
Dawg Tired
September 1st, 2012
10:11 am
Speed kills! NCSU just too slow to play at an SEC pace of play. Vols looked very good last night. Will they be that good against teams with SEC speed? Maybe. Time will tell.
Maxwell the chihuahua hunter
September 1st, 2012
10:13 am
Enter your comments here
Maxwell the chihuahua hunter
September 1st, 2012
10:14 am
Hey Let’s Laugh, I recognize your kind, see ‘em every day…GED, big truck, camo hat, big mouth, little man…the perfect nobody…
Let's laugh
September 1st, 2012
10:26 am
Yeah Maxwell, I hide behind my keyboard just like you do. That rhetoric is so tiresome. I’d hate to be in your neck of the woods to see the kind of people you reference in you post.
Like I said, you’re an idiot.
RiffRaff
September 1st, 2012
10:29 am
UGA will go undefeated at home this year. That includes wins over Vandy and UT.
KR
September 1st, 2012
10:31 am
I think it’s a bit too early to be declaring UT as “back.” There’s still a lot of football to be played in the next 3.5 months. However, after watching the USC/Vandy game and the UT/NCSt games, I’d say that Bradley’s annointing UGA as SEC East winners might have been premature.
Hard to say what USC is like, since they spent most of the game sweeping up their quarterback and patching him back together again. However, to my eye they looked worse than expected from the preseason press. UGA may end up wishing the USC game had not been pushed later in the season, as they are currently wounded and very vulnerable. They may not be so vulnerable a month from now.
On the other hand, both Vandy and UT looked to be functioning pretty well and able to execute even under difficult circumstances. A few more games under their belts and they could end up being tough to beat. They certainly look much better than the preseason press indicated. It may turn out that UGA’s schedule isn’t quite as easy as everyone seemed to think it would be.
Unfortunately, I don’t think we’ll learn much about UGA today.
tripledart
September 1st, 2012
10:46 am
Give the Vols a break.Damn you Dawgs.Who in the hell do you play this season.You should be ashamed to comment about football this season.
Dawg Reporter
September 1st, 2012
12:07 pm
VolCall still drunk from the post-game party.
Georgia – 38 Tennessee – 16
Dawg Reporter
September 1st, 2012
12:10 pm
KR, what are you talking about? Georgia wounded?! Also, The talent gap between Tennessee and Georgia, Bama, Arkansas, Florida, LSU, Auburn and S. Carolina is wide.
Dawg Reporter
September 1st, 2012
12:21 pm
These blogs bring out the anti-UGA contingent and Dawg haters. Logic has left the building, and in some cases (Bama fans), stupidity reigns. Everyone knows that all SEC games are tough, but proclaiming UT as back and Vandy better than UGA borders on the edge of raw comedy. NC State lost by 4 TDs last year to Cincinnati (who UT crushed last year) and failed to score a single point on Florida State. Same QB, same result. NC State is a disorganized, half-prepared team as usual, capable of making terrible mistakes. Let’s see how they do against Florida now.
bamaguy
September 1st, 2012
12:35 pm
It was a fun game to watch. I expect the SEC dominance over the ACC to continue tonight when Auburn plays Clemson (of course, I will be watching that “other” game).
We will se just home much the Fallenteers have improved when they line up against Alabama in October.
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September 1st, 2012
12:40 pm
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Dawg Reporter
September 1st, 2012
12:48 pm
Patterson? Two words…Todd Gurley.
Chuck UGA
September 1st, 2012
1:39 pm
NC State is very inconsistent and fundamentally flawed. Look at their results last season, and look at the history of their coach. Wildly inconsistent. Take away UT’s two big plays last night and you basically had an even game. NC State is not an upper-tier ACC team. UT did what they had to do and took advantage of what was given to them. However, the real test for UT will be Florida. Gator fans don’t even call that a rivalry anymore. If UT wins that one, then DErek will be safe. Other than that, Georgia wins the SEC East if they beat SC. Never mind the not-so-intelligent Bama duds on here and the other irrational, illogical UGA haters.
Kameron
September 1st, 2012
1:49 pm
Wow Georgia has some class issues.NCST beat Clemson who beat Auburn.I cant wait to see UT play Georgia.You guys keep talking that smack though.
KR
September 1st, 2012
1:55 pm
Dawg Reporter: South Carolina wounded and vulnerable. Specifically, Connor Shaw.
afan
September 1st, 2012
3:31 pm
Have not been a Tenn fan till Dooley took over..looking forward to Vols having a good year after all the crap they’ve been through the last few years.
God Bless America…..
afan
September 1st, 2012
3:36 pm
UGA playing Buffalo is a joke..Parkview could bet Buffalo.
GTBob
September 1st, 2012
4:20 pm
Is a proud SEC program with National Championship history really celebrating a victory over maybe the 7th best team in the ACC? Give me a break.
Dogs Smell
September 1st, 2012
4:26 pm
The slamming comments about Tennessee are funny. Actually NCS had the 7th best rated defense in the country and UT handed it to them. I guess you dog’s are better but from the looks of your game against Buffalo , Not so. Keep bragging and putting UT down because ever dog has his day and you dogs are going to lose several this season.
Dogs Smell
September 1st, 2012
4:28 pm
Yep Gurly looked good against “Buffalo” !!!!!!!!!!! You think he is the 2nd coming? Wait until you play a ranked team. Oh Hell , you dont play any !
JJ
September 1st, 2012
5:20 pm
I have to say even though we were up by multiple scores most of the game that was one of the most plain entertaining football games I’ve watched (all teams included) in a good long time. Both teams had QBs and receivers who could score quickly so the drama remained despite the lead. It was just a great game to watch if you’re a college football fan and it would’ve been great whether it was us or UGA and Fla.
Dawg Bite
September 1st, 2012
6:00 pm
My goodness, such B.S. on here. All I can say is, good win for UT, congrats,and always good to see SEC over ACC. Who gives a rat’s behind who they beat, a good start for UT. Hey, UGA won as well, maybe not the prettiest, but how many do play that great in their first game? So much negativity and trash thrown on here, unbelievable! Who the H knows right now who will beat whom, that’s why they play the games. Good evening all, and go Tigers and Tide!
harold
September 1st, 2012
6:37 pm
THE VOLS LOOKED GREAT. I WAS SHOCKED THAT DOOLEY/SAL HAVE SUCH SOLID TEAM. AND BRAY-PATTERSON-JUSTIN HUNTER – LOOK NFL LIKE.