r/CollegeBasketball • u/cbbBot /r/CollegeBasketball • NCAA • 1d ago
[Post Game Thread] #8 Florida defeats #2 Tennessee, 73-43 Post Game Thread
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u/JazzYotesRSL BYU Cougars • Utah Valley Wolverines 1d ago
Tennessee just played one of the worst offensive games I’ve ever seen in my life and scored 43 points.
How in the absolute fuck did NC State score 24 points in a basketball game.
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u/jrich960608 Florida Gators 1d ago
I almost want to go watch that game to find out, and I almost don’t want to put myself through that.
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u/praeceps93 North Carolina Tar Heels • Johns… 1d ago
I've watched it during some dark times. It's what you imagine.
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u/dan_144 NC State Wolfpack • Georgia Tech Yellow… 1d ago
Watching it live on TV was a dark time
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u/TheBFlem27 NC State Wolfpack 1d ago
I was present at that game. You don’t ever want to watch a single second of that game.
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u/ConnorK5 NC State Wolfpack 1d ago
I was also at the game. It made no sense other than every single player had the worst game of their career all at the same time. And that's never happened before in the modern era. Others might think to themselves "we'll surely that's happened before." It hasn't. There's only 24 points on the score board for a reason.
And none of the shots being taken were egregiously bad shots. It felt like an act of god was preventing us from scoring. Every single chance for a ball to rim out it did.
Also, Keatts is just a bad coach.
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u/spartakva George Mason Patriots 1d ago
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u/Gamecat235 Arizona Wildcats 1d ago
That game flow graph with the flat line forever is just such a story.
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u/MozzerellaStix Michigan State Spartans • Gr… 1d ago
Wow 40% from 3? Must have been an offensive explosion.
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u/Mtndrums Louisville Cardinals • Purdue Boilermakers 1d ago
Just punch yourself in the nuts 4-5 times, and it'll be like watching the game.
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u/AthleticAlarm32 California Golden Bears 1d ago
Shoot with 16.7 / 7.1 / 66.7 splits, attempt only 6 FTs, and turn the ball over more times then you made field goals
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u/XAfricaSaltX Georgia Bulldogs • Iowa State Cyclones 1d ago
I still refuse to believe that happened
It’s just something wrong with my phone the final was not 47-24 it just wasn’t
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u/blay12 Virginia Tech Hokies 1d ago
I still vividly remember that day lol, I was moving into a new apartment and hoping to be able to catch the second half while unpacking things. As we were wrapping up moving things from the truck, my friend checked the score and said it was 13-9…to which I responded “Oh sick, did it get delayed or something?” thinking I’d be able to see more of the game than I’d thought I would.
Response was “no, it’s 13-9 with 6 mins left in the first half.”
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u/JazzYotesRSL BYU Cougars • Utah Valley Wolverines 1d ago
I don’t care if the game can be watched in all its horrific glory, it was somehow staged
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u/wakemeup707 Virginia Tech Hokies • Radford Highlan… 1d ago
It was lovely
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u/V_T_H Virginia Tech Hokies 1d ago
Right? For as mediocre to downright bad as our program has been I’m glad we’re on the correct side of that horrifying little tidbit.
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u/SueYouInEngland Iowa Hawkeyes 1d ago
It's not like that was a historically bad NC State team, either. They were ranked at the time.
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u/BeeMovieHD NC State Wolfpack • Wake Forest Demon De… 1d ago
Both teams were! And we were both top offenses in the ACC, in a year when the ACC was really good. Believe it was the 2018-2019 season.
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u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11 Michigan Wolverines 1d ago
I didn’t expect Tennessee to win but I also didn’t expect them to go 12/56 and 4/29.
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u/kd451 1d ago
It was 7/49 at one point lmfao
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u/CaptainNoBoat Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago
At one point with less than 5 minutes left, TN had 24 free throw attempts and 30 points.
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u/citymanc13 Florida Gators • West Florida Argonauts 1d ago
That’s fucking insane actually
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u/shnoiv Florida Gators 1d ago
The other 5 came in garbage time
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u/daniel2296 Florida Gators • Virginia Cavaliers 1d ago
To be fair, most of the second half was garbage time.
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u/_Rainer_ Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago
Yeah, I was expecting an L, but not a historically bad performance.
Congrats to Florida.
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u/PersianVol Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago
That 4/29 is very deceiving, it was 1 three made until the final 2-3 minutes
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u/SquintsRS 1d ago
27/68 and 6/20 isn't too much better but geez Tennessee was worse than ass tonight
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u/Rare-Metal9715 Florida Gators 1d ago
Remember when people were saying our defense was fraudulent after the Kentucky game? Yeah about that. Turns out Kentucky can be really good when they want to be.
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u/FourteenTwenty-Seven Washington Huskies • Duke Blue Devils 1d ago
Are you from Tennessee? Becaue you shot 10% from three.
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u/kroxti Auburn Tigers 1d ago
Today we saw the basketball gods tell one team “No.”
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u/peachbasketss North Dakota Fighting Hawks • Kansas Jay… 1d ago
Usually Todd Golden ignores that word
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u/OleRockTheGoodAg Texas A&M Aggies • Arizona Wildcats 1d ago edited 1d ago
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u/eurekastrings Arkansas Razorbacks 1d ago
Florida scary for real
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u/Orion14159 Kentucky Wildcats 1d ago
They're not so tough, you just have to put up the best offensive performance of the entire season to beat them
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u/lclear84 1d ago
I guess Tennessee desperately wanted to lose by 30 there at the end haha
I get playing through the whistle but a foul with 1.3 on the clock down 28 will never not get clowned
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u/MasterGator_19 1d ago
that and then rushing to the locker room before shaking hands is the perfect microcosm of Tennessee as a program
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u/MattScruggs Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago edited 1d ago
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u/xXBadger89Xx Florida Gators 1d ago
Belt to ass
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u/citymanc13 Florida Gators • West Florida Argonauts 1d ago
Belt to ass doesnt do it justice. Shit was a full on cat of nine tails
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u/lalavieboheme Arkansas Razorbacks 1d ago edited 1d ago
away teams in SEC play are 1-9 so far oof (with Vanderbilt being the sole win, of course)
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u/Zwitterions Kentucky Wildcats • UHSP Eutectics 1d ago
And the officiating has been awful for the away team in almost all of them. SEC refs love getting attention from home crowds.
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u/RamsCorner56 Tennessee Volunteers • Indiana Hoosiers 1d ago
Can’t really blame the refs on this one. I would like to complain about the announcers however.
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u/EverythingGoodWas Florida Gators 1d ago
To be fair the announcers don’t have much to brag about you all when you’re shooting 7 of 47
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u/joshuakyle94 Arkansas Razorbacks 1d ago
College refs will forever be awful. I think they get Bonuses for stopping games as much as they did tonight in your game
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u/Zwitterions Kentucky Wildcats • UHSP Eutectics 1d ago
Awful. Just destroys any flow and makes the game about who can abuse the refs mental deficiencies the best. Usually that advantage goes to the team with the reputation for being “physical” or “scrappy.”
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u/WDCGator Florida Gators 1d ago
So you admit the refs got yall the win?!?🤔🤔🤔
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u/Zwitterions Kentucky Wildcats • UHSP Eutectics 1d ago
Oh no, we are of course the exception to what I said 🤣
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u/ufsandcastler Florida Gators 1d ago
Did y'all have to verify your age to watch that? I thought that was required for porn in Florida.
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u/OleRockTheGoodAg Texas A&M Aggies • Arizona Wildcats 1d ago
I get the SEC is really good this year but ho-lee fuck.
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u/SquintsRS 1d ago
I mean the shooting from both teams was horrendous
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u/TRJF Bucknell Bison 1d ago edited 1d ago
For the record:
Florida: FG 27/68 (39.7%); 3PT 6/20 (30.0%); FT 13/17 (76.5%)
Tennessee: FG 12/56 (21.4%); 3PT 4/29 (13.8%); FT 15/24 (62.5%)
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u/spoonfedsam San Diego State Aztecs 1d ago
21%??? by god those are some SDSU numbers
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u/EverythingGoodWas Florida Gators 1d ago
It was actually in the mid teens until the last 5 minutes when they did the bulk of their decent shooting
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u/DammitChris Kentucky Wildcats 1d ago
Holy shit if you add up Tennessee’s percentages it doesn’t crack 100 lol
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u/maybeSkywalker Kentucky Wildcats • Iowa State Cyclones 1d ago
We can’t be talkin bro
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u/DammitChris Kentucky Wildcats 1d ago
While it is true that we played like hotdog water today, at least we got 140.4 combined percent lol
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u/MilesandPlates Auburn Tigers 1d ago
And 3 of Tennessee’s 12 FGM were in the last 2-3 minutes of mop up time.
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u/alyineye3 Illinois Fighting Illini 1d ago
To me that’s the wildest part about it. Look at Fla shooting %’s and then see they won by 30 lolol
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u/goldenface4114 Florida Gators 1d ago
Give Tennessee credit, they're still an elite defensive team. But that's the most points anyone has put up on them this year and only the second time they've given up 70.
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u/Advanced-Excuse-9438 Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago
It was a wild time haha. Florida was rebounding the absolute piss out of Tennessee. Like a 17 rebound differential haha. They deserved that big of a win
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u/goldenface4114 Florida Gators 1d ago
Sometimes you're the dog, sometimes you're the hydrant. We'll see you in Knoxville.
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u/jrich960608 Florida Gators 1d ago
Agreed. We had an off night shooting. Imagine if we shot normally this game would have been a murder.
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u/Blingblaowburrr Florida Gators 1d ago
Tbf, it most definitely was still a murder. If we had shot the ball normally, it would have been a damn genocide
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u/wutitdotho NC State Wolfpack 1d ago
This proves tenn was an overrated #1 team to me more than anything about the conference. Already knew florida was good
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u/The_Long_Wait Kentucky Wildcats 1d ago
Florida had 55 rebounds to Tennessee’s 38, which is definitely a normal stat that we’d all expect to see.
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u/Rare-Metal9715 Florida Gators 1d ago
If our rebounds were points we’d still outscore them by 12
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u/Shawn_1512 Florida Gators 1d ago
I want to thank Tennessee for fouling with 1.3 seconds left so we could beat them by 30 instead of 28
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u/szboy422 Florida Gators 1d ago
Nice to have a buy game breather before the grind of the SEC schedule.
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u/citymanc13 Florida Gators • West Florida Argonauts 1d ago
Gators beating up on the soft schedule. Wait til they play a real team
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u/UF0_T0FU WashU Bears • Kentucky Wildcats 1d ago
Kentucky would like a word, but a very gentle word given tonight's UGA game
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u/duckbonez Florida Gators • USF Bulls 1d ago
Don’t let the score fool you. This game was not as close as it looks.
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u/TheRatchetTrombone Florida Gators 1d ago
People still gonna say we frauds and juicing the computers lol.
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u/Coffee____Freak Duke Blue Devils 1d ago
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u/alyineye3 Illinois Fighting Illini 1d ago
Can’t believe that’s the first time I’ve seen this. It’s brilliant
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u/DebobFL Florida Gators • Michigan State Spart… 1d ago
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u/Solo_Brian Florida Gators 1d ago
Worst performance by a #1 ever?
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u/Random0925 Mississippi State Bulldogs • … 1d ago
Most disappointing thing to happen in Tennessee sports since this morning.
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u/Edgemaster1423 Florida Gators 1d ago
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u/Beechman Florida Gators • Virginia Cavaliers 1d ago
I don't know what y'all think but that was really fuckin fuck, man. Go gata.
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u/Drumblebore 1d ago
FYI, they kept talking about there not being students were there but at least 1000 were turned away for capacity issues
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u/dawonk17 Davidson Wildcats • North Carolina T… 1d ago
I’d like you all to think about Tennessee scoring 43 and then imagine nc state scoring 24 in a game
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u/jrich960608 Florida Gators 1d ago edited 1d ago
(2nd*) Worst loss an unbeaten #1 team has ever taken!
Edit: we looked way off offensively and still won by 30. We played great defense but Tenn really just couldn’t hit water if it rained.
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u/semioldguy San Diego State Aztecs • Tennessee … 1d ago
Almost. There was a graphic during the game showing that Houston lost as #1 by 31 points. Though tonight felt like we lost by more than that.
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u/Podoboo322 Houston Cougars • Big 12 1d ago
Wait when was that? Because if they’re talking about the Big 12 championship last year it was only by 28.
“Only” lmao that was a rough one.
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u/gggggrayson Washington State Cougars 1d ago
pretty crazy to get offensive rebounds on almost 45% of your misses
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u/tedham_porterhouse Florida Gators 1d ago
Martin had Florida playing psychopathic basketball and Tennessee looked shell-shocked
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u/whatifevery1wascalm Alabama Crimson Tide 1d ago
(This counts as a Quad 1 win for Gatah)
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u/whatifevery1wascalm Alabama Crimson Tide 1d ago
11-55 from the field
15-24 from the charity stripe
15 points in the first half
43 total points
30 pt margin of defeat
Outscored by 19 in Fast Break
Outscored by 26 in the Paint
Yeah Tennessee was a win-loss merchant with the 134th SoS but they ain't ready for the grind of an SEC schedule
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u/jrich960608 Florida Gators 1d ago
Mention the rebounds! mention the rebounds!
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u/No_Pumpkin9299 Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago
I mean yes we are not as good as a number 1 should be, or top 15, but we may as well throw out the season if you're expecting us to play that badly again. We are going to lose and we may even get another blowout but statistically we can't do worse than that
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u/Affectionate-Bee3913 Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago
Fun fact: there was only 1 team in the KenPom top 10 with an easier schedule than Tennessee... and that team is Florida.
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u/sererson Florida Gators • Nova Southeastern… 1d ago
Well yeah, we only had to play Tennessee while y'all had to play Florida
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u/lalavieboheme Arkansas Razorbacks 1d ago edited 1d ago
see it’s not so fun when someone does it to you huh Tennessee!! (please don’t hurt us again)
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u/Nasjere Rochester Yellowjackets • Florida Gators 1d ago
I SAID IT'S GREAT
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u/SululuXD Tennessee Volunteers • Long Beach St… 1d ago
I knew Florida was really good after the UK game, but man... they still absolutely trounce us even if we shot a normal percentage. They looked awesome, great inside play, fantastic bigs, tenacious defense. This sucks but hopefully this will remain our worst shooting performance of the season.
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u/jrich960608 Florida Gators 1d ago
We play again right? I fully expect it to be a better game if we do. GG’s.
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u/Background-Sir8051 Davidson Wildcats • Virginia Cavaliers 1d ago
If it wasn’t for 8 garbage time points at the end, that would’ve been the wildest Tony any has ever seen. Crazy
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u/AlphaH4wk Texas A&M Aggies 1d ago
Call me old fashioned but I like for a win over undefeated #1 to be a little bit more climactic
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u/GoToHellBama Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago
Im 35. Ive been watching tennessee basketball since I was 10. I was there when we had curtains covering the upper deck of thompson-boling arena. This was the worst game of tennessee basketball ive ever seen. gg florida, you whipped ass.
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u/acrylictears 1d ago
if i had a nickel for every time the #1 ranked team got outscored by nearly double amount of points by the current #8 team* in the first week of January 2025, i would have 2 nickels...which isn't a lot but weird it happened twice
(*i'm aware ohio state final rank is #6 in ap poll but they're #8 in the cf playoffs)
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u/clegg2011 Texas A&M Aggies 1d ago
Florida with more rebounds than Tenn points. You love to see it.
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u/Just-Plain-Dan Florida Gators 1d ago
Thought Florida winning today was realistic after how close they were on Saturday, but even I couldn’t have foreseen them going total BTA on Tennessee
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u/MariaJanesLastDance Texas A&M Aggies 1d ago
WATERMELON WATERMELON WATERMELON RIND! LOOK AT THE SCOREBOARD AND SEE WHO’S BEHIND!
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u/MattScruggs Tennessee Volunteers 1d ago
Why is it that in every damn sport Tennessee wins 99% of our games and then when we do lose in the most embarrassing shit show in the history of college athletics
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u/jrich960608 Florida Gators 1d ago
And it’s to Florida!
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u/Rare-Metal9715 Florida Gators 1d ago
In Gainesville! When the vols come down here some humiliating thing is about to happen
Remember when our football team beat them on back to back trips to the swamp with a last minute TD on the same play from the same yard line going the same direction in the same stadium? Train right open Big Ben in for 63yds deserves a plaque on the swamp or something
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u/PrinceWalker22 Arkansas Razorbacks 1d ago
Hey guys, how’s it going? Cool, cool. Yeah, it’s cool with me too. I just have one question if you don’t mind too much; WHAT THE HELL?!
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u/Alh12984 Auburn Tigers 1d ago
I heard it once said: The oracle, Keneth Pomeroy, spoke the truth. He told of this happening.
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u/citymanc13 Florida Gators • West Florida Argonauts 1d ago
Oh baby. What a fucking game. Youre welcome Auburn fans, now you can finally have your #1 spot
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u/Smooth-Majudo-15 Florida Gators • Notre Dame Fighting Irish 1d ago
Winning any SEC game on the road is going to be hell
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u/Aggravating_Ad6852 Florida Gators 1d ago
I love a good belt to ass session on a Wednesday night. Damn that felt good!
Edit: shit, it’s only Tuesday
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u/Andrewdeadaim Florida Gators 1d ago
Blown out and it wasn’t even a full home court advantage cause our athletic department sucks
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u/Mdtwheeler Duke Blue Devils • Murray State Racers 1d ago
No need to beat a cupcake that badly Florida… oh wait it was the number one team in the country
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u/ItsZizk Tennessee Volunteers • Tennesse… 1d ago
Oh look, God remembered that he hates us
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u/AP-FUTChemist Houston Cougars 1d ago
It’s days like these when I’m glad we’re in the Big 12
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u/lalavieboheme Arkansas Razorbacks 1d ago
by the transitive property, Florida may beat us by 400 (idk i’m not a math guy)