This game is a big deal for them...and they're boasting about their 100,200 fans in the stadium and their crowd noise...
Tennessee vs Oklahoma: Welcome Back, Big Game. We Missed You.
By Will Shelton @wshelton2 on Sep 7, 2015, 8:00a
Some excerpts...
Any dreams of the Top 10 or aspirations to simply stay in the poll will have to go through Oklahoma. The Sooners may have finished 8-5 last year and unranked for the first time in five years, but they handled the Vols 34-10 along the way and come into Knoxville with loftier dreams of their own for 2015. Tennessee may have been the favorite in off-season chatter, but Oklahoma took the opening line at -3 on the road.
It's better for Tennessee this way, honestly. Whatever humility Matt Johnson didn't teach them, being the underdog again should give them the proper perspective. And when you're looking for just your second win over a ranked foe in six years, you need perspective. Tennessee hasn't earned anything yet. But this is the week to earn it.
But if the Vols can get it done Saturday, it would be a moment the likes of which no one has seen around here in eight years. For some of our younger fans, it might be their first taste of what Tennessee Football can be. And for the rest of us, a reminder of what she once was.
This program is in great shape right now. There will be plenty of other chances and plenty of other chances this year. But this is the one before the Volunteers this week. Welcome back, big game. We haven't seen you around here in a long time. And the Vols can make it one we'll remember long past Saturday night.
http://www.rockytoptalk.com/2015/9/...-oklahoma-welcome-back-big-game-we-missed-you
But wait...there's more--a reaction to what Bob Stoops said at his presser today...game on...
Bob Stoops: "We've been on this stage before."
By Will Shelton @wshelton2 on Sep 7, 2015, 1:05p 12
What the Sooners have not done, however, is play in front of a crowd like this before.
Saturday night will mark the first time Oklahoma has ever played in front of 100,000 people. The only times they have ever played in front of 90,000 have been the last seven years in the Red River Rivalry, a 50/50 neutral site venue. The largest crowds the Sooners have ever played in front of on the road are 88,119 at Ohio State in 1977, and 87,188 at Texas A&M in 2000.
The stage they'll know, and know it far better than Tennessee. But the audience will be new territory, larger and louder than anything they've faced yet. There is a noise 102,455 can make that 85,000 simply cannot.
http://www.rockytoptalk.com/2015/9/...b-stoops-quote-weve-been-on-this-stage-before
Tennessee vs Oklahoma: Welcome Back, Big Game. We Missed You.
By Will Shelton @wshelton2 on Sep 7, 2015, 8:00a
Some excerpts...
Any dreams of the Top 10 or aspirations to simply stay in the poll will have to go through Oklahoma. The Sooners may have finished 8-5 last year and unranked for the first time in five years, but they handled the Vols 34-10 along the way and come into Knoxville with loftier dreams of their own for 2015. Tennessee may have been the favorite in off-season chatter, but Oklahoma took the opening line at -3 on the road.
It's better for Tennessee this way, honestly. Whatever humility Matt Johnson didn't teach them, being the underdog again should give them the proper perspective. And when you're looking for just your second win over a ranked foe in six years, you need perspective. Tennessee hasn't earned anything yet. But this is the week to earn it.
But if the Vols can get it done Saturday, it would be a moment the likes of which no one has seen around here in eight years. For some of our younger fans, it might be their first taste of what Tennessee Football can be. And for the rest of us, a reminder of what she once was.
This program is in great shape right now. There will be plenty of other chances and plenty of other chances this year. But this is the one before the Volunteers this week. Welcome back, big game. We haven't seen you around here in a long time. And the Vols can make it one we'll remember long past Saturday night.
http://www.rockytoptalk.com/2015/9/...-oklahoma-welcome-back-big-game-we-missed-you
But wait...there's more--a reaction to what Bob Stoops said at his presser today...game on...
Bob Stoops: "We've been on this stage before."
By Will Shelton @wshelton2 on Sep 7, 2015, 1:05p 12
What the Sooners have not done, however, is play in front of a crowd like this before.
Saturday night will mark the first time Oklahoma has ever played in front of 100,000 people. The only times they have ever played in front of 90,000 have been the last seven years in the Red River Rivalry, a 50/50 neutral site venue. The largest crowds the Sooners have ever played in front of on the road are 88,119 at Ohio State in 1977, and 87,188 at Texas A&M in 2000.
The stage they'll know, and know it far better than Tennessee. But the audience will be new territory, larger and louder than anything they've faced yet. There is a noise 102,455 can make that 85,000 simply cannot.
http://www.rockytoptalk.com/2015/9/...b-stoops-quote-weve-been-on-this-stage-before
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