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Now we get into the meat of the schedule, these are the games that will be be toughest, excluding Georgia Southern. Bama will have to bring their A game to win these next 4 conference games and it won't be easy.

Starting with Tennessee, they're not the best Vols team that we have seen in the past but they are plenty good to beat you if you aren't ready to play. I still remember Tennessee's game with LSU down there last year and LSU was a big favorite, LSU would have lost that game if it had not been for the Refs.

So here we go on the big stretch and I'll be there next Saturday to make some noise and continue the march toward #14. RTR!!

This game is especially meaningful to me...living here in the midst of enemy territory. 8)

Remember when we won the NCG against Texas, we had to block a last second FG to win the game. Tenn. will not lay down for us. RTR!

That is OK, we are going to knock them down.

Just to follow up on this, this team is different than that 2009 team.  We struggled during the middle of the season in 2009 and finally put it all together in November.  This team has gotten better every week in my opinion, and we are running all over people right now.  The only team that can beat Alabama is Alabama.

 #+, I think SC you are right on. I just hope we don't have that one off night against the LSU bunch.  :popcorn2:  :D RTR!

Bama 45-0

Do you want to start the official pick the score thread with this?  Put it in Bryant-Denny if you do.

I live in enemy territory and this game is important because it is the next one. CNS will have their full attention. Remember 09 when we didn't play our best. I hope we beat the snot out of them.

When you got teams playing a 100 times over their heads and the infamous SEC Refs calling the game, it can become a level playing field in a hurry. I still remember the Auburn game last year, the best team didn't win that game.

I've got some doubts to how much Lacy will play Saturday, I don't think that toe is ready yet. Fowler looks like he's ready to step into that slot though, he looked very impressive last night.

I don't understand why we played him against OM.  Rest is the only thing that's going to cure him.

Exactly, I was surprised to see him out there.

Well, we had people on here talking about Old Miss being a trap game. Some beast they trapped!

It was a Black Bear!  :)

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Bring your cigars, boys and girls.

That was a big goal with the players then, to be on a team that could light up the locker room cigar. Great memory.

Or an Ole creaky Colonel.

At least the Ole Colonel made it most of the way across that Gettysburg field before losing.  Last night the Black Bears couldn't even make the field.

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I hate the vols more than even the barn because I learned from the man I respected the
most in football what that the rivalry means . it goes back a  long time , to my boy hood days .
I figured if the best coach I ever saw hated them enough to play against them with a broke leg it
was good enough for me too . As it turns out even after he passed away he was right
they lived up to (and then some) the reason he hated them so much
I knew he was right and they proved it ... was there any doubt he knew all along ?

we always have cigars for the vols game , smoked my last one in Bryant Denny in 2009
shortly after Cody blocked that kick . I knew before that game we were going to win ,
the guys just had that aura to them , especially Cody ...



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ya'll have probably read it but in honor of CPB and the cigar tradition it deserves to be read again ... so

Smoke-em if you got 'em, Bama fans.

The sweet taste of an October victory-cigar after slapping-around the Tennessee Vols in front of their home folks, is pretty sweet. Coach Bryant started the victory-cigar tradition for Bama when he returned to the Capstone in 1959. He hated Two things:Tennessee and his players smoking cigarettes. As a player, Coach Bryant, an all-SEC tight end, despised Tennessee more than any other opponent. He even broke his leg in the first quarter of a game aginst Tennessee and played the entire game. He said he did not want to miss a single opportunity to hit someone from Tennessee.

Smoking was prohibited on Bryant's teams and if you were caught smoking, you were kicked off the team.No fancy-smanzy two-week suspension like today, OFF THE TEAM. Ask Joe Namath. He was kicked off the Bama team late one season for smoking and reserve QB Steve Sloan guided the Crimson Tide to a Sugar Bowl victory. But Coach Bryant knew his kids. After that first win over Tennessee, Coach Bryant locked the doors to the dressing room immediately after he and the team had entered. No press. No one that wasn't with the team. Coaches passed out cigars and the team had a victory smoke and sang Yeah! Alabama.

CPB sucked it up and played Tennessee with a broke leg. That says it all!

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and so does this    8)


HEY VOLS !
when Ole Miss said we ain't Superman ... ya'll may not want to believe them ! 

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The Alabama defense swarming the Vols last year is one of my favorite pictures. I have it saved.

Hightower can get up higher this year; UT is in trouble.  Excellent photo.