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the Vols have lost a game. Their worst team (Kentucky) almost lost to a mediocre Div. 2 team, and their two best teams have both lost a game.
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This comment makes me question your football knowledge. First, they weren't D-2, they were 1-aa. Big difference. Second, how can you fault Kentucky for "almost losing" (they won by 12 and trailed for all of 15 seconds in the last quarter and a half) when Stanford ACTUALLY lost to a 1-aa school, Duke got beat by East Carolina (a D1A doormat for several years), Oklahoma State sputtered against Montana State and Arkansas State, and Indiana had to squeak by a directional Michigan and Nichols State or something like that?
The point is: I can go around the country and embarass just about every conference with some team or some game they want to pretend doesn't exist. Are your Wildcats going to lose by 40 points to Georgia, Tennessee, and Florida this year? Yes. Does UK's mere presence in the conference render those 3 (and Bama and LSU) unfit to pursue a title? Hell no.
in the words of Louis Black, I'm going to repeat this, because it bears repeating...you can't fault the conference for playing conference games early in the year. Tennessee already lost? oh noes!!!11!! Florida beat them. Florida lost. Who beat them? Bama. You don't see people ripping the ACC for Miami having a loss and being in the Top 10. Why? Because they lost to another elite team. Copy that for Ohio State losing to Texas too. I think if you look at the talent and coaching on the majority of the Top 10, who they've played, and how they've done, you'll see that it's a pretty fair guess at the best teams in the country. Now that some games have actually been played, the teams that are there are there for (mostly) legitimate reasons.