Tennessee football moves back up SEC Power Rankings with win at LSU
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Defeated LSU Tigers 40-13
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Blowing out LSU on the road carries a lot more weight than blowing out Auburn at home. Tennessee football only dropped in our SEC Power Rankings last week because they didn’t play, Alabama looked great and Ole Miss got a quality win. Everything changed this week.
Kentucky doesn’t look like as much a quality win for Ole Miss. Alabama struggled to put away Texas A&M, and the blowout over Arkansas also looks overrated given the fact that Mississippi State did the same thing to them. Meanwhile, despite a bye in between, the Vols’ last two outings were wins over Florida and at LSU.
That Florida game was a much bigger blowout than it seemed to be on paper as well, as UT did lead 38-21 in the fourth quarter before calling it off. Taking that into account, there’s no reason to keep the Vols from being atop this list if you’re going by production and not projection.
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Despite passing lots of tests already, Tennessee football will provide plenty more opportunities as well. It starts this week, as Alabama visit in the biggest game of this series in at least three decades. Then they host the UT-Martin Skyhawks, but after that, they’ve got Kentucky at home and Georgia on the road. The season comes down to the next four weeks.