Game Thread: Appalachian State Mountaineers at Tennessee Volunteers | 9/1 on SECN @ 7:30 PM ET

[Eco]

September 1, 2016

7:30 PM ET

Neyland Stadium
Knoxville, TN

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[006]

Wake up beches its gameday!

 

[ktg8trgrl]

I've been up since 5ish!

 

[006]

I've been up since 5ish!

Same here, I'm slacking on plorsting.

 

[006]

Spoiler

 

[ktg8trgrl]

Rocky flop you'll always be 2nd in the sec... good ol rocky flop rocky flop Tennessee

 

[006]

for you kt

 

[douggie]

 

[nathans8823]

App State wins this one...

 

[006]

UT opens its season on Thursday for the rst time since the then-No. 11 Vols took a 28-11 victory over Louisville on Sept. 5, 1991.

Tennessee is 25-20-7 all-time in Thursday games and last played on a Thursday on Dec. 30, 2010, in a 30- 27, 2OT loss to North Carolina in the Music City Bowl.

UT’s last regular-season Thursday game was a 41-3 win over Ole Miss on Oct. 3, 1996 in Memphis. The Vols were ranked No. 9 in that game as well.

Tennessee owns a 89-24-6 (.773) all-time record in 119 season openers.

UT has won seven-straight season openers and
19 of its last 21. Tennessee took a 59-30 win over Bowling Green on Sept. 5, 2015, at Nissan Stadium in Nashville.

The Vols have won 21 consecutive season openers played in Tennessee, dating to 1986.

App State went 11-2 in 2015--its second season as an FBS member--and capped the year with a 31-29 win over Ohio in the Raycom Media Camellia Bowl. The Mountaineers is 17-2 over their last 19 games and 13-1 in Sun Belt play since the middle of the 2014 season--their first at the FBS level.

Like the Vols, App State is returning 17 starters from last season and is the preseason favorite to win the Sun Belt Conference. Their roster boasts both of the Sun Belt's preseason players of the year with running back Marcus Cox and linebacker John Law earning the honors.

Tennessee is 8-0 all-time against current members of the Sun Belt Conference.

 

[Eco]

I still think UT will be one of the biggest surprises, and not in a good way (if you're a UT fan). While I don't think they lose tonight, I can't begin to explain how happy I'd be if they did in fact lose.

 

[WestEndVol]

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

"UT with a great victory to open the season"

 

[006]

 

[006]

 

[Eco]

Those videos remind me just how much I hate UT.

 

[006]

Those videos remind me just how much I hate UT.

I know, I know, they got nothing on this guy

 

[OUGuy1999]

FUCK YEA>>>>FOOTBALL

 

[Eco]

I know, I know, they got nothing on this guy

Didn't say that. But I'm also not the one posting the worst of my own team

 

[006]

Didn't say that. But I'm also not the one posting the worst of my own team

Didn't say what? Didn't know you were so up tight. I was just kinda fucking around. Hate on brotha........