I mean this is always a fun one. Bonus points if you’re brave enough for score projections. I’ll start for Tennessee.
- UVA: W
- Austin Peay: W
- Florida: W*
- UTSA: W
- SCAR: W
- TAMU: W*
- Alabama: L*
- Kentucky: W
- UConn: W
- Mizz: W
- UGA: L
- Vandy: W
Florida, Texas A&M, and Alabama are my swing games. Florida looks like a favorable match up for us as it stands, but having grown up through the early 2000’s I just know that uf has some of that swamp magic. ATM is just a massive question mark for everyone from every perspective right now, certainly glad they play Alabama the week before they play us. Unfortunately we play Alabama in ttown the next week. Speaking of if there are any other vols reading this please help me flood Danny White’s inbox with requests to return TSIO to a color clash game by wearing orange in Tuscaloosa this year. If that game looks good, or if we even pull out a win, we can start talking about the UGA game. Until then let’s take this one game at a time. Overall I’ve got us going 10-2 with 8-4 being the absolute worst case for us to still have a ‘decent’ season. Also shout out to the scar game, I bet that one’s going to be a barn burner.
Michigan
Equal probability of 10-2, 11-1, 12-0
We’re returning 81% of the “production” from 2022, and the transfers keep the o-line strong.
Barring injuries, this team should have a reasonable shot at winning it all. Schedule is fairly mild.
Most concerning game (other than OSU): at Penn State on Nov 11th
“Trap” game: at Nebraska on Sept 30th
Michigan and OSU are sitting pretty with the new format next year. Losing to osu or an on psu (while not ideal) shouldn’t kick you from the top 6 non con champs. What would suck would be losing to osu 3 weeks in a row with the new format.