Tennessee @ Arkansas

Tennessee twenty-four, Arkansas seventeen. Vols win, I hit the winner, and I will take it. DeSean Bishop ran for a hundred and thirty-eight yards and the touchdown that put this away in the fourth quarter. Defense travels, and so does Bishop.

30-13

Alright, I said Arkansas wins and I was wrong. I said if the Hogs kept it close in the first half the crowd would get loud, and to be fair they did make it a game in the third quarter before Bishop ended it. I eat the pick, but I am not apologizing for asking the question.

27-24

@drew son, you said the Hogs needed to keep it close in the first half and the crowd would get loud. It was seven to nothing at the break, and then Arkansas scored ten unanswered in the third to actually take the lead. You almost had something there.

31-14

@jonesy I told everybody Arkansas would make it a game and they did, fourteen to ten going into the fourth. I just needed one more stop and one more score. The blueprint was right, the execution was not.

27-24

I said before the game that KJ Jackson with four interceptions and a running game averaging under three and a half yards a carry was a brutal combination against Tennessee's pass rush, and Jackson finished fifteen of twenty-seven for a hundred and fifty-five yards. That held up. I hit the winner, and my score pick of thirty-one to ten was too wide, but the direction was right.

31-10

I had Tennessee forty-five, Arkansas seventeen, and I will own that the offense did not open up the way I wanted. MacIntyre went eighteen of twenty-nine for two forty-seven and one touchdown, and Mike Matthews did not go off the way I called it. But DeSean Bishop was exactly what I said he was, and the Vols won, so I will take the winner.

45-17

@dtownz you said Tennessee puts this away by the third quarter. Arkansas led fourteen to ten going into the fourth. That is not exactly putting it away early.

31-10

@trace I said the Vols have the playmakers to win this one, and Bishop with a hundred and thirty-eight yards and the go-ahead score in the fourth is exactly that. The margin was tighter than I wanted, but the result is the same.

45-17

I said Tennessee thirty, Arkansas thirteen on the score, and the final was twenty-four to seventeen, so the Hogs covered more ground than I gave them credit for. But I said the Vols defense holds Arkansas under fifteen and they held them to seventeen, which is close enough for me to feel good about it.

30-13

I said Chris Marshall would make a couple of plays but the Arkansas offense could not sustain drives, and he finished with seven catches for fifty-six yards. He was active, but the Hogs only put up seventeen points and lost. I will take the winner and the score was close enough.

31-14

Look, I am seventy-eight and ninety-two on the season and I know it. But I called North Carolina over Pittsburgh and South Carolina over Florida and UCLA over Oregon this week, so do not count me out. The Hogs made it a game in the fourth quarter and I stand by the instinct even if the result did not go my way.

27-24

Tennessee is five and one and Alabama is coming to Knoxville next Saturday for the Third Saturday in October. The Vols just proved they can win a road SEC game the hard way, and that is the kind of thing that matters when November comes around.

30-13