UT 17 UAB 10

The game yesterday..sucked horribly. The atmosphere, experience, and the fact that football season is back was enough to bring a huge smile to my face and the only way the game would have been better would have been if ti were, well, a game. #3 in the country. Highest pre-season ranking since I think 1999..after UT's last National Championship. We played freaking UAB. Yeah, we won 17-10. Everyone in the top 5 blew out their opponent except for us.

Erik Ainge is, I'm pretty sure, no longer our starting QB and we need ALOT of work on our pass defense. Gerald Riggs is an absolute beast. Clausen is the better QB so far and my money's on the fact he will start our next game. Did I mention that it's against Florida at The Swamp? Somehow or another I still have faith..

Now we're being called overrated and whatnot but hey, someone think's we're good enough to be in the top 10.

Enough about football..for the moment anyway.

I'm home for the 'weekend'. Actually just today and tomorrow and I'll be gone for another two weeks or so before Lyndi and I go to the Rascal Flatts concert. Couldn't let 'em come back to Nashville and miss out, lol. Home is a place of escape for me..to just relax. Kind of like a vacation..

Orange Nation is everything I hoped it would be. Neyland is..as it always it, heh.

I'm hoping for a BCS bid..actually we're all hoping for a Rose Bowl berth. The significnce of the Rose Bowl you might ask? That's where the BCS Championship will be played this season. Hopefully Tennessee's first National Championship since 1998. I think back to the last time Tennessee played UAB. I know they won by some 20 odd points but I just can't remember when that other game was play..

Oh. Right.

1998.

September 17: #3 Tennessee @ #10 Florida.

Keep everyone in Louisiana, Mississippi, and those connected to the hurricane in your prayers!

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