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________________________________ From: "ke...@baldwinnc.com" <ke...@baldwinnc.com> To: gatortalk googlegroups <Gatortalk@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:50:30 AM Subject: [gatortalk] RE: [gatornews] [SUN]: Kiffin says Bama is a better team than Florida [A.P. / Associated Press] <<"We let one slip by against Florida, but we've put that behind us now, because we have another opportunity," guard Vladimir Richard said. "If we would have just corrected a few things, we'd have won the game. So now we're like, 'Let's not come in Sunday ... and say the same thing." >> So what exactly is in that Tenn kool-aid? -------- Original Message -------- >Subject: [gatornews] [SUN]: Kiffin says Bama is a better team than >Florida [A.P. / Associated Press] >From: Shane Ford <go.ufgator...@gmail.com> >Date: Wed, October 21, 2009 8:45 am >To: gatorn...@googlegroups.com > > >Kiffin says Bama is a better team than Florida > >Doug Finger/Staff photographer >Buy photo >Vols coach Lane Kiffin said Alabama is a more complete team than Florida. > >The Associated Press >Published: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. >Last Modified: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. > > >KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin says the AP Top 25 has it right >— Alabama, not Florida, is the No. 1 team in the nation. >He’s practically an expert. By vaulting over the Gators into the top spot in >The Associated Press poll, the Crimson Tide set up the Vols’ second game >against the No. 1 team in the nation this season. >“I think one poll got it right,” Kiffin said. “If you watch football and pay >attention, I don’t think there’s any doubt who the No. 1 team is. Alabama has >a great team — very well-coached, extremely talented, great special teams, >great on offense, great on defense.” >The Gators are ranked second in the AP Top 25 but first in the USA Today >coaches’ poll and Bowl Championship Series standings. >Kiffin said it’s hard to draw many comparisons between the two teams besides >talent. Alabama favors size, Florida relies on speed. >He said the Crimson Tide (7-0, 4-0 Southeastern Conference) is a more complete >team and says the teams’ games against Arkansas reveals Alabama’s strength. >The Tide beat the Razorbacks 35-7 on Sept. 26 and the Gators narrowly beat >Arkansas 23-20 on Saturday. >“While they’re both great teams, one team kind of beats you in all three >phases: Alabama,” Kiffin said. “The other team will beat you at times but then >a lot of times nobody’s open and the quarterback runs around, makes the play. >These guys are much more balanced.” >The Vols (3-3, 1-2) lost 23-13 at Florida Sept. 19, when the Gators were No. >1. The fact that Tennessee was competitive when much of the football world >predicted a Florida blowout coupled with a big win over Georgia in its last >game, gives some Vols players hope. >“We let one slip by against Florida, but we’ve put that behind us now, because >we have another opportunity,” guard Vladimir Richard said. “If we would have >just corrected a few things, we’d have won the game. So now we’re like, ’Let’s >not come in Sunday ... and say the same thing.” >A win by the Vols could mean redemption on several levels. It would be >Tennessee’s third all-time win over the top team and would snap a two-game >losing skid against its biggest traditional rival. >Tennessee is the first team to play No. 1 twice in the same season since >Baylor in 2000, when the Bears lost to Nebraska 59-0 and Oklahoma 56-7. In >1992, Arizona beat No. 1 Washington 16-3 (Nov. 7) after losing to No. 1 Miami >8-7 (Sept. 26). >For Alabama coach Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide, the ranking doesn’t really >mean anything, though. >“Nothing’s really changed for our guys. I mean, what does it matter? What’s >changed? What’s changed from this week, from this Monday to last Monday?” >Saban said. >Before this season, the Vols hadn’t played a No. 1 team since losing at home >to Miami 26-3 in their 2002 homecoming game. They’ve twice lost to Alabama >when it was No. 1. >Tennessee has upset only two of the nine top teams it’s faced. An unranked >Vols squad beat Auburn 38-20 in 1985, and 13th-ranked Tennessee beat LSU 14-13 >in 1959. >It was the chance to add to that list of upsets that was among the reasons >defensive tackle Wes Brown, an Athens, Ala., native chose to attend Tennessee. >“This is what you want. This is what you come to Tennessee for. You want to >play in the big games,” he said. “No offense to the smaller schools we’ve >played, but you come to Tennessee to play a No. 1 team and with a great >rivalry like this, you couldn’t ask for much more.” > > >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
