Take Me to Another Place: BYU vs Tennessee

[chrisrenrut]

Tennessee Football may suck on the field, but they are pretty good at other things:

https://sports.yahoo.com/tennessee-s...043103721.html

[originalsocal]

originalsocal is a Ute fan? This is awesome! Everything is coming up UTES today!

[Applejack]

Our fan base has to be the most schizophrenic bunch ever. It reminds me of fans of Boston sports. When they are losing the entire world is against them, they feel downtrodden, cheated, maligned, and with no hope going forward. They blame the coach, the weather, actuary tables, everything. If they are winning, however, there is no living with them. "Pompous windbags" barely scratches the surface in describing them. When we beat UT this weekend you will see a complete 180 degree attitude in this fan base.

He was talking about the Utes in those sentences, so yes, beautifully said.

originalsocal is a Ute fan? This is awesome! Everything is coming up UTES today!

[Applejack]

BYU is going to win this Saturday and our fans will have to come to the awful conclusion that Utah just has very good players and is coached extremely well. Hard to accept; I know.

Beautifully said.

[Green Monstah]

Let me get this straight. If we don't upset an SEC team on the road, we are doomed to a 4-8 season?

If we can’t beat A VERY BAD SEC team, then we’ll be hard pressed to beat all but 4 or 5 teams on our schedule.

[Pelado]

It won't be considered an upset if we win because Tennessee will go on to lose almost every game this year.

Not even if Tennessee is favored by our friends in Vegas?

[mtnbiker]

Beautifully said.

He was talking about the Utes in those sentences, so yes, beautifully said.

[HBCoug]

BYU is going to win this Saturday and our fans will have to come to the awful conclusion that Utah just has very good players and is coached extremely well. Hard to accept; I know. In fact, put me down for us fist rolling (and gator rolling!) our way to 2-1 to start the season.

[Applejack]

Our fan base has to be the most schizophrenic bunch ever. It reminds me of fans of Boston sports. When they are losing the entire world is against them, they feel downtrodden, cheated, maligned, and with no hope going forward. They blame the coach, the weather, actuary tables, everything. If they are winning, however, there is no living with them. "Pompous windbags" barely scratches the surface in describing them.

Beautifully said.

[originalsocal]

Let me get this straight. If we don't upset an SEC team on the road, we are doomed to a 4-8 season?

Our fan base has to be the most schizophrenic bunch ever. It reminds me of fans of Boston sports. When they are losing the entire world is against them, they feel downtrodden, cheated, maligned, and with no hope going forward. They blame the coach, the weather, actuary tables, everything. If they are winning, however, there is no living with them. "Pompous windbags" barely scratches the surface in describing them. When we beat UT this weekend you will see a complete 180 degree attitude in this fan base.

[BlueK]

Let me get this straight. If we don't upset an SEC team on the road, we are doomed to a 4-8 season?

It won't be considered an upset if we win because Tennessee will go on to lose almost every game this year.

[Pelado]

Let me get this straight. If we don't upset an SEC team on the road, we are doomed to a 4-8 season?

Good point. Make that 3-9.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Yeah, a loss on Saturday could be an indicator that 4-8 is likely. USF, UMass, Liberty, and Idaho State are the only patsies. I don't know much about SDSU, but before the wheels fell off last season, they beat Arizona State and Boise State (note: they beat Weber St. 6-0 on Saturday, so I'm optimistic that we have a fifth win against the Aztecs).

Let me get this straight. If we don't upset an SEC team on the road, we are doomed to a 4-8 season?

[Green Monstah]

If we lose to Tennessee then 6-6 is the ceiling for this team. This game is a must-win to keep any upside at all in this season.

Yeah, a loss on Saturday could be an indicator that 4-8 is likely. USF, UMass, Liberty, and Idaho State are the only patsies. I don't know much about SDSU, but before the wheels fell off last season, they beat Arizona State and Boise State (note: they beat Weber St. 6-0 on Saturday, so I'm optimistic that we have a fifth win against the Aztecs).

[wapiti]

Disagree on all of the above, so there's that as well.

I can't tell if Topper is serious or not, but he's right that AA and I are close...I'm just saying that losing to TN means BYU going 0-4 is a foregone conclusion and AA is saying it's extremely likely.

If we lose to Tennessee then 6-6 is the ceiling for this team. This game is a must-win to keep any upside at all in this season.