[Cactus Jack]

I'm not enthused about our chances in this one, but I do wonder if the book is out on Tennessee.

They beat a not-very-good Oklahoma team by 10 and a not very good Florida team by 6 in OT. They scored 25 and 23 in those games. They only had 14 in a road loss to Arkansas.

They hung 24 on Alabama In Knoxville, but the Tide gave up 34 (Georgia), 40 (Vanderbilt), and 25 (South Carolina) in other SEC games before they shut out Missouri's back-up QB last week. I'm honestly not sold on Alabama at this point and think that they miss the playoff unless they ride a win over Georgia and their past accomplishments in, even if other SEC teams are better on paper. All that to say that while Alabama still a big win, it's lost some luster.

Good thing for the Vols that no matter how much their offense might have stalled, their defensive line should terrorize us and Kentucky just isn't playing very good football right now. Kentucky never seems to play well in Knoxville either; excluding the 2020 COVID season, our last win there was in 1984.

I'm honestly surprised that the line isn't higher.