Tennessee vs. Alabama College Football Week 8 Matchup Analysis

SportsGrid

Watch Tennessee vs. Alabama College Football Week 8 Matchup Analysis - SportsGrid on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00And we'll start off with the home dog, the Tennessee Volunteers at Neyland Stadium.

00:07You know, I don't know what to make of that game last week against the Gators.

00:11You know me, Bill.

00:12I'm an unabashed fan of the Gators.

00:14I went to school there.

00:15But the Gators dominated the Volunteers on the road.

00:18It was so weird to see because the Gators defense hasn't been good all season.

00:21Mertz was throwing the ball all over the place.

00:24But I mean, what do you make of Alabama?

00:26I mean, Alabama hasn't looked good either the last couple of weeks.

00:29They lose to Vanderbilt.

00:30They didn't look good last week.

00:32They had a rough, what, first half and plus against South Florida.

00:35They're two and a half point favorites in this game, 56 and a half is the total here.

00:41Boy, I'll tell you, if Tennessee looked good last week against the Gators, it would be

00:46a really easy pick for me.

00:47But they looked so bad and needed every bit of luck to win that game.

00:51I don't know if I can side with them either.

00:54It's a two wrongs don't make a right type game right now and really hard to figure out

00:58when you consider on one side Alabama, the last two weeks, opposing quarterbacks, a 75.5%

01:05completion percentage.

01:06Diego Pavia, Lenore Sellers, they had their way against the secondary a little bit, which

01:12was shocking in its own way.

01:14And then Niko Iomaliava has one touchdown pass in SEC play.

01:20So I'm kind of with you on this.

01:21I feel like Tennessee should win the game.

01:24They should.

01:25All the ingredients are there, but that's probably why I'll pick Alabama because they're

01:30on the road.

01:31I do trust Jalen Milrow.

01:32This is a huge game for Kaelin DeBoer.

01:34I don't think of any of these SEC games we're going to talk about, any coach feels more

01:38pressure right now than Kaelin DeBoer.

01:41If they have two losses before we get to November, all that Nick Saban stuff comes up, it'd be

01:46a little bit of a mess.

01:49And close wins for Alabama too.

01:51Two losses and some close wins that shouldn't have been, you know, Alabama is going to be

01:54on the outside looking in on that.

01:56So that being said, there's still 10 to 1 to win the national championship, but I'm

02:00not really interested in them.

02:01And from what I saw with Tennessee last week, even if they beat Alabama this week, Bill,

02:05I certainly don't have the confidence to think they could win the championship.

02:08I'm a pass probably on both of these.

02:10Yeah, I think those two teams right now, two weeks ago, a different story, but they're

02:14cut under Texas and Georgia.

02:16And maybe even on some level LSU, when you're looking at the Tigers who have this path to

02:22the SEC championship game, if they take care of business at Texas A&M last week, remember

02:27the Tigers don't have an SEC loss.

02:30So I still, Alabama's tempting because you know, they have the talent, the offense, those

02:34kinds of things.

02:35But if they don't figure out that defense, it's not going to matter.

Category

Transcript

Recommended