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The number one rule of football game prognostication is the well known truism: On any given Saturday any team can beat you.
Unless we forget that or become too arrogant to understand it or all sorts of horribly unlucky things happen to us it's very hard to imagine how Tennessee has a path to victory, but the truism dictates they absolutely do.
We must be ready for a brawl in Knoxville.
Fortunately we have both Kirby & a recent battle with Notre Dame to prepare us. Tennessee has Pruitt & a recent enough defeat by Georgia State to prepare them.
None of us knows what song the fat lady will sing, but I doubt it's going to be Rocky Top. That said, we must make sure to remember how much we hate them, how physical they can be, how much they want the win, and how important this SEC game is to us. They absolutely can beat us. Worse, they believe they can beat anybody (well except Florida and Georgia State) so we have to convince them otherwise.
Even if this turns out to be glorified scrimmage we have to make it a productive and educational experience for both us and Tennessee.
I'm pretty sure schooling them is the sort of educational experience most of us have in mind. There is no score I'd turn down as long as we get the W, but what score would be best for both Tennessee and Georgia?
Like everyone else in the world I know Pruitt is blowing smoke with his 100 times better nonsense. Our job will be to play assignment football. We need to work out plenty of kinks. Above all we need to be physical and dominant and exacerbate Tennessee's recruiting woes. No recruit should be in any doubt - following the game next Saturday - about the relative merits of the teams.
We also need to make sure Eli Wolfe ends up happy he went with Georgia for his graduate school football.
Changing Pruitt's mind about his team - convincing him to do a Spurrier - would be a worthy goal. If Pruitt stays Tennessee is in trouble. If he leaves they're in worse trouble. We have no shot at removing his delusions.
Obviously, I have little hope for a competitive game, but we must be ready for one and willing to push beyond our previous efforts to insure a victory over Tennessee.
Go, Dawgs!