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Illinois made me very mad playing for that FG late ... but it did work.

IMO you keep running the ball for the TD.
 




A_Slab_of_Bacon said:
Illinois made me very mad playing for that FG late ... but it did work.

IMO you keep running the ball for the TD.
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Tennessee would've let them score, and now the ball is out of your hands. I like the chip shot FG for the win and not letting Tennessee get the ball back. I dare say even Denaburg would've made that kick?
 

A_Slab_of_Bacon said:
Illinois made me very mad playing for that FG late ... but it did work.

IMO you keep running the ball for the TD.
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Absolutely not.
Run out the clock, kick the chip shot.
Don't give Tennessee the ball back.
In fact...
If I'm Tennessee and Illinois runs it on 1st down at the 6, I let them score.
 


Roland Brooks said:
Gophers are irrelevant … this doesn’t make me feel better actually worse.. do people know the Gophers exist? Beat somebody..
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The only SEC school that is worth a chit academically IMO is Vanderbilt. The SEC can take it's "means more" man-love crap and shove it where the sun doesn't shine.
 


USAF said:
Absolutely not.
Run out the clock, kick the chip shot.
Don't give Tennessee the ball back.
In fact...
If I'm Tennessee and Illinois runs it on 1st down at the 6, I let them score.
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Illinois was taking a knee anyway. Instead you run and maybe get a TD ... they were running well.
 

Well not sure how much this win really counts for the B10 since Illinois was the 7th place team and they beat the 8th place SEC team. Not really a fair matchup. It just means more. 😉
 


A_Slab_of_Bacon said:
Illinois was taking a knee anyway. Instead you run and maybe get a TD ... they were running well.
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Yes, we know Illinois was taking a knee...the proper strategy.
IF they ran the ball--as you suggested--Tennessee should happily let them score on 1st down. And I think they'd have done just that.

Scoring a TD puts the game back in Tennessee's hands.
 

USAF said:
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Yes, we know Illinois was taking a knee...the proper strategy.
IF they ran the ball--as you suggested--Tennessee should happily let them score on 1st down. And I think they'd have done just that.

Scoring a TD puts the game back in Tennessee's hands.
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But they didn't let them score, they could have done that plenty of times before those plays.
 



Roland Brooks said:
I forgot we are GPA bowl snobs…
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The original Big Ten (nee Western Conference) was founded as an academic conference of major research institutions known for their academic reputations or did you forget your history?

Happy to be called a GPA snob. What else you got for me?
 


MinneNoVA said:
The original Big Ten (nee Western Conference) was founded as an academic conference of major research institutions known for their academic reputations or did you forget your history?

Happy to be called a GPA snob. What else you got for me?
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Be honest please 🙏.. How old are you?
 


Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0 said:
Florida is typically ranked in the top 10 public universities in the nation academically.
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Fair enough. Per US News & WR rankings of national universities (only included public universities ranked in the top 30 and plus Vandy):

Cal: #15
UCLA: #17 (tie)
Vandy: #17 (tie)
Michigan - Ann Arbor: #20
UNC Chapel Hill: #26 (tie)
Virginia: #26 (tie)
UC San Diego: #29
Florida: #30 (tie)
Texas: 30 (tie)
 

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