Tennessee's 2015 schedule has been released

And I like it.

UAB
Oklahoma
Western Carolina
@ Florida
Arkansas
Georgia
BYE
@ Alabama
@ Kentucky
South Carolina
North Texas
@ Missouri
Vandy

 

0-12

 

it's actually not that bad. Of course, we're Tennessee.

 

every time we've had a west team rotate on i've been like, well, that should be an opportunity, and then they turn out way better than expected. So i fully expect Arkansas to go like 11-1 next year.

 

8-4

 

I'm sure Arkansas will win the national title next year. Who would have thought we would draw the best Ole Miss team since pre segregation this fall. Wish we got LSU this year instead.

 

Probably won't be such a thing as an easy West game for a while.

 

To be the best, you got to get close to beating the best

 

I must have dyslexia.

 

5-7 as per Butch's rebuilding schedule.

 

2015 is year 1, correct?

We have year zero, zero.5 and then one. We go 2-10. Brick. By. Brick.

 

UAB, Western Carolina, North Texas, and Vanderbilt are wins.

 

5-7, wooo.

 

Seriously not confident we can make a bowl.

 

And I don't see any way Butch gets a 4th year if this happens, especially if they don't make one this year.

 

Process

 

Will the OL be better? They don't seem to have gotten better throughout the season, so how much improvement can we expect for the offseason? How much improvement can we expect from inserting a few true freshmen in there? And the QB situation? Defense should be good, but they've been good this season and we haven't done much. Not sure how much better the D will get. Probably looking at the defense taking another step forward and the offense hopefully staying about the same. Sure seems like another season of struggling for .500.

 

Hopefully a couple of new OL signees and maybe Blair will be able to play so you can shuffle guys around and play them where they're most suited, but it'll still be a question. And then there's the QB question

 

9+ wins next year.

 

McKenzie and Tuttle are difference makers. They'll take the defense from good to damn near elite. This defense is playing with 3 undersized DTs right now that don't do much as far as disrupting plays. You put those two in the middle, that will screw up a lot of offenses.

The offense will still be bad. I have no faith in the offensive staff after watching the offense get worse as the year goes on.