Tennessee mentor Butch Jones' staff and the Vols' players have done their best this week to make light of the noteworthiness of their 11-amusement losing streak to SEC East opponent Florida.
In any case, two ESPN experts said Friday that the Gators' decade-in addition to of strength against Tennessee without a doubt conveys some weight as the fourteenth positioned Vols (3-0) plan to go up against No. 19 Florida (3-0, 1-0 SEC) on Saturday at Neyland Stadium.
"On the off chance that I beat you 11 straight circumstances in something, do you believe there's a mental edge for you? It is the thing that it is," said David Pollack of ESPN's "School GameDay," a previous Georgia champion who had a harm abbreviated profession with the NFL's Cincinnati Bengals.
"And furthermore, when you're on the opposite side of that, as well, it's a strength feeling. It doesn't make a difference if it's fourth-and-15, fourth-and-12 — subsequently, a year prior," Pollack included, alluding to the amusement winning, 63-yard touchdown pass on fourth-and-14 in Florida's 28-27 win over the Vols last season. "You simply know it will turn out to your support. When we played Florida when I was at Georgia, it was the inverse. It was somewhat similar to Murphy's Law — whatever could turn out badly would turn out badly."
Pollack said the heaviness of a losing streak like Tennessee's against the Gators regularly "puts more weight on the folks" before and amid a diversion.
"The mentors the week of the diversion, when you play a rival this way and it's so vital to the fans thus imperative to them, they pucker up, man," Pollack said. "It's an alternate vibe. It puts more weight on the folks, and they feel it, 100 percent.
"You can state whatever you need — 'No, it's not.' They came into this season going, 'I need to tidy Florida. I need to beat Florida. I'm tired and tired of losing to Florida.' I can guarantee you, it's at the front line of their brain."
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Individual "School GameDay" investigator Desmond Howard, a previous Heisman Trophy victor at Michigan who likewise was the MVP of Super Bowl XXXI, said Tennessee's dry spell against the Gators "conveys a gigantic measure of weight." The Vols haven't beaten Florida since 2004.
"You can't deny it," Howard said. "In case you're denying it, then you're simply lying about it. It's something that, as a player, I mean, I played in the greatest competition in school football, and there was no preventing the significance from securing that diversion."
Rece Davis, the host of "School GameDay" — which will communicate from Tennessee's grounds Saturday morning, only a couple of hours before Saturday's amusement — said it's just human instinct for Florida's 11-diversion winning streak against Tennessee to affect the Vols' planning and way to deal with Saturday's diversion.
"In the event that they're people, it weighs (on players)," Davis said. "That is to say, clearly, the ideal thing is to disregard everything else all things considered — every play is an existence and history of its own, emphasis on your occupation on that play — however I think what happens now and again is that, if things begin to turn out badly or you begin to feel a little weight, it isn't so much that folks freeze and go, 'Goodness, no, will lose.' They perhaps attempt to do excessively, and they get a tad bit outside themselves.
"Presently, will they do that this week? I don't have the foggiest idea. They're making a special effort — checkerboarding the stadium, 'Smokey Grays,'" Davis included, alluding to the Vols' other outfits that they'll wear amid Saturday's amusement. "Perhaps ol' Smokey, the Bluetick Hound, will parachute in from the airship.
"They're making a special effort, and I think there are two schools of thought on it: One, you say, 'We should bet everything. We should assault this. We should indicate them. How about we get past the halfway point.' And then in some cases going the inverse way can be terrible. You think back and you say, 'will treat it like whatever other amusement.' Well, you truly know somewhere down in your gut it's no other diversion.
"I think it weighs on them since they're human. In any case, the main thing: I think tip top level competitors and incredible mentors, which is the thing that Tennessee has, they have the abilities of dealing with that and as yet performing admirably."
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In any case, two ESPN experts said Friday that the Gators' decade-in addition to of strength against Tennessee without a doubt conveys some weight as the fourteenth positioned Vols (3-0) plan to go up against No. 19 Florida (3-0, 1-0 SEC) on Saturday at Neyland Stadium.
"On the off chance that I beat you 11 straight circumstances in something, do you believe there's a mental edge for you? It is the thing that it is," said David Pollack of ESPN's "School GameDay," a previous Georgia champion who had a harm abbreviated profession with the NFL's Cincinnati Bengals.
"And furthermore, when you're on the opposite side of that, as well, it's a strength feeling. It doesn't make a difference if it's fourth-and-15, fourth-and-12 — subsequently, a year prior," Pollack included, alluding to the amusement winning, 63-yard touchdown pass on fourth-and-14 in Florida's 28-27 win over the Vols last season. "You simply know it will turn out to your support. When we played Florida when I was at Georgia, it was the inverse. It was somewhat similar to Murphy's Law — whatever could turn out badly would turn out badly."
Pollack said the heaviness of a losing streak like Tennessee's against the Gators regularly "puts more weight on the folks" before and amid a diversion.
"The mentors the week of the diversion, when you play a rival this way and it's so vital to the fans thus imperative to them, they pucker up, man," Pollack said. "It's an alternate vibe. It puts more weight on the folks, and they feel it, 100 percent.
"You can state whatever you need — 'No, it's not.' They came into this season going, 'I need to tidy Florida. I need to beat Florida. I'm tired and tired of losing to Florida.' I can guarantee you, it's at the front line of their brain."
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Individual "School GameDay" investigator Desmond Howard, a previous Heisman Trophy victor at Michigan who likewise was the MVP of Super Bowl XXXI, said Tennessee's dry spell against the Gators "conveys a gigantic measure of weight." The Vols haven't beaten Florida since 2004.
"You can't deny it," Howard said. "In case you're denying it, then you're simply lying about it. It's something that, as a player, I mean, I played in the greatest competition in school football, and there was no preventing the significance from securing that diversion."
Rece Davis, the host of "School GameDay" — which will communicate from Tennessee's grounds Saturday morning, only a couple of hours before Saturday's amusement — said it's just human instinct for Florida's 11-diversion winning streak against Tennessee to affect the Vols' planning and way to deal with Saturday's diversion.
"In the event that they're people, it weighs (on players)," Davis said. "That is to say, clearly, the ideal thing is to disregard everything else all things considered — every play is an existence and history of its own, emphasis on your occupation on that play — however I think what happens now and again is that, if things begin to turn out badly or you begin to feel a little weight, it isn't so much that folks freeze and go, 'Goodness, no, will lose.' They perhaps attempt to do excessively, and they get a tad bit outside themselves.
"Presently, will they do that this week? I don't have the foggiest idea. They're making a special effort — checkerboarding the stadium, 'Smokey Grays,'" Davis included, alluding to the Vols' other outfits that they'll wear amid Saturday's amusement. "Perhaps ol' Smokey, the Bluetick Hound, will parachute in from the airship.
"They're making a special effort, and I think there are two schools of thought on it: One, you say, 'We should bet everything. We should assault this. We should indicate them. How about we get past the halfway point.' And then in some cases going the inverse way can be terrible. You think back and you say, 'will treat it like whatever other amusement.' Well, you truly know somewhere down in your gut it's no other diversion.
"I think it weighs on them since they're human. In any case, the main thing: I think tip top level competitors and incredible mentors, which is the thing that Tennessee has, they have the abilities of dealing with that and as yet performing admirably."
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