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2023 Week 8 Game Results

	Tuesday	October 17
^25^ Liberty	defeated	Middle Tennessee	42-35	Home
Jacksonville State	defeated	Western Kentucky	20-17	Home
South Alabama	defeated	Southern Mississippi	55-3	Home

	Wednesday	October 18
Florida International	defeated	Sam Houston State	33-27	Away
New Mexico State	defeated	UTEP	28-7	Away

	Thursday	October 19
^24^ James Madison	defeated	Marshall	20-9	Away
Rice	defeated	Tulsa	42-10	Away

	Friday	October 20
SMU	defeated	Temple	55-0	Away

	Saturday	October 21
Baylor	defeated	Cincinnati	32-29	Away
Boston College	defeated	Georgia Tech	38-23	Away
^21^ Air Force	defeated	Navy	17-6	Away
Memphis	defeated	UAB	45-21	Away
^4^ Ohio State	defeated	^7^ `Penn State`	20-12	Home
Rutgers	defeated	Indiana	31-14	Away
Mississippi State	defeated	Arkansas	7-3	Away
Ohio	defeated	Western Michigan	20-17	Home
^T-1^ Oklahoma	defeated	UCF	31-29	Home
Georgia Southern	defeated	Louisiana Monroe	38-28	Home
Charlotte	defeated	East Carolina	10-7	Away
Bowling Green	defeated	Akron	41-14	Home
^10^ Alabama	defeated	^T-17^ `Tennessee`	34-20	Home
^23^ Missouri	defeated	South Carolina	34-12	Home
Northern Illinois	defeated	Eastern Michigan	20-13	Home
Ball State	defeated	Central Michigan	24-17	Home
Buffalo	defeated	Kent State	24-6	Away
Oklahoma State	defeated	West Virginia	48-34	Away
Wake Forest	defeated	Pittsburgh	21-17	Home
Wisconsin	defeated	Illinois	25-21	Away
Minnesota	defeated	^20^ `Iowa`	12-10	Away
Nebraska	defeated	Northwestern	17-9	Home
South Florida	defeated	Connecticut	24-21	Away
^11^ Oregon	defeated	Washington State	38-24	Home
Tulane	defeated	North Texas	35-28	Home
Toledo	defeated	Miami (OH)	21-17	Away
^8^ Texas	defeated	Houston	31-24	Away
New Mexico	defeated	Hawai'i	42-21	Home
UT San Antonio	defeated	Florida Atlantic	36-10	Away
Virginia	defeated	^9^ `North Carolina`	31-27	Away
Coastal Carolina	defeated	Arkansas State	27-17	Away
UNLV	defeated	Colorado State	25-23	Home
San José State	defeated	Utah State	42-21	Home
Kansas State	defeated	TCU	41-3	Home
BYU	defeated	Texas Tech	27-14	Home
Old Dominion	defeated	Appalachian State	28-21	Home
^13^ Ole Miss	defeated	Auburn	28-21	Away
^T-1^ Michigan	defeated	Michigan State	49-0	Away
^22^ LSU	defeated	Army	62-0	Home
^5^ Florida State	defeated	^15^ `Duke`	38-20	Home
Georgia State	defeated	Louisiana	20-17	Away
^16^ Utah	defeated	^T-17^ `USC`	34-32	Away
Miami	defeated	Clemson	28-20	Home
Nevada	defeated	San Diego State	6-0	Away
^3^ Washington	defeated	Arizona State	15-7	Home
UCLA	defeated	Stanford	42-7	Away

4 comments

wjrii

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I move that we temp-ban the Miami and Texas fans for a week so the rest of us can sulk.

g0d0fm15ch13f

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Yeah I know I said I'm spending some time away but like an abusive relationship I'm back for more. You've probably seen/heard some spicy takes from vols fans after last night, so here's some more:

Milton is good enough to take care of the rest of the season, but his biggest issue isn't his arm accuracy (which is more than fine it's even great when he can set his feet), it's his decision making. Hendon would let it rip and pray, and we had good enough receivers to make it work. You can see this especially in garbage time this week, taking 5 seconds to get to a checkdown play in the middle of the field.
Our receivers are not as good at creating separation or catching the ball, this MUST be fixed if we want more teams like 2022
Oline will be our biggest question mark in the offseason, and say it with me "SEC games are won in the trenches". These guys need to be able to operate at light speed and do so cleanly, but they've been just alright this season and we're about to lose major pieces. A team as efficient as the 22 team can overcome a hold, this team can not. At least not consistently.
Turn holding into a 5 yard penalty. This does two things, one it means it won't kill our drives. But two it means officials will actually be able to call it every time
Heupel was asked about the officials, his official response was 21 seconds of silence. I'm just not sure how the premier league of this sport still has these issues.
Good golly miss molly our secondary is woeful. Any run that gets past the line is going for 20 yards and if we can't sack the qb then anything coming through the air has the chance to score.
With that being said, I am very pleased with our dline. Easily the best development for us this season hopefully we keep that trendline going because last year's offense with this year's defensive front would create an elite team, even with the week secondary.
I really like our running game, and I like the way that Milton runs downhill. I know that modern football thinking says protect the qb and I understand why, but damn do I like seeing Joe lower the shoulder and essentially tackle the defender.
The 4th and 1 call was a good call. I agreed with it before the snap and I don't like the outcome but it was the right call. Any vol you see questioning this call will also say that Heupel got conservative in the 2nd half. You can not have both of those be true.
We are just sandbagging georgia and took our 2 losses so far just to make uga's inevitable loss look that much worse
God fuck if we wind up back in the jones/pruitt pattern of the big 3 losses I will be so sad
Closing thoughts: Heup is still the guy and I like his teams. Our passing game needs help and that's frustrating. We're still not out of range of what I would consider a successful season (8-3) but I really wish we hadn't lost the games we did.

Manibusan

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We are just sandbagging georgia and took our 2 losses so far just to make uga’s inevitable loss look that much worse

Help us Heupel-Wan, you’re our only hope

Manibusan

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Some notes:

Both of our #17 ranked teams lost this week.
Both of our ranked North Carolina teams lost this week.
Of the top 10 teams, #1 Oklahoma, #3 Washington, #4 Ohio State, and #8 Texas all won their games by just one score.
Only two of our fallen ranked teams lost to unranked teams. The other four lost to teams ranked above them in our poll.

/c/CFB Poll Top 25
1. Texas
2. Georgia
3. Tennessee
4. Miami
T-5. Alabama
T-5. Ohio State
7. Oregon
8. Ole Miss
9. USC
10. Missouri
11. Oklahoma
T-12. Kansas State
T-12. Penn State
14. Oklahoma State
15. Notre Dame
16. Northern Illinois
17. Utah
T-18. Illinois
T-18. Michigan
20. LSU
T-21. Louisville
T-21. UCF
T-21. Washington State
24. Georgia Tech
T-25. Maryland
T-25. UNLV