Game week

Saturday

The shop is merch. This is why you come back. Gossip, the board, and a kick with something on it.

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Tennessee at Georgia Tech · Sep 12 · 7:00 ET · Atlanta

Primetime on the road. First real test of the year.

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Tennessee at Georgia Tech · Sep 12 · 7:00 ET · Atlanta

Primetime on the road. First real test of the year.

Saturday · Atlanta · Open the wire

Three rooms

Come for the takes. Stay for the kick.

Gossip

The Wire

Whispers, notices, and a take machine. Satire with a Knoxville accent. Not a newsroom.

Numbers

The Board

The slate with our lean, not a spreadsheet. What 7.5 actually means, in English.

The game

Give Him 6

Hold. Time it. Put it through. Fifty and beyond is six. Miss and you start over.

The pulse

What the numbers actually say

Full board

The number

7.5

Vegas over/under

Priced a freshman and four games the computers think we lose. We took the over because September still exists.

Our board

8–4

Leaning 9–3

Locks on Furman and Kennesaw. Steal one from Texas, Alabama, A&M, or LSU and the over is a story, not a hope.

The four

Games they have us losing

Texas, Alabama, Texas A&M, LSU. The whole season lives in whether one of those gets stubborn.

Under the lights

Atlanta

Week two, 7 ET

Georgia Tech is the first adult conversation. Everything before it is volume. Everything after it is consequence.

at Georgia Tech

First real test, under the lights, on the road. Atlanta is not a warm-up. If the freshman is still standing on Sunday, the season has a spine.

Toss-up

vs Texas

Noon, national window, a roster that is supposed to be better than ours. Steal it and the over/under is a rumor. Drop it and we find out who we actually are.

Lean L

vs Alabama

Permanent opponent, finally. The hill will be a problem for them. The talent gap will be a problem for us. Worth the ticket anyway.

Likely L