(01-18-2021 08:57 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(01-18-2021 04:11 PM)stever20 Wrote:  

(01-18-2021 03:56 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(01-18-2021 01:29 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(01-18-2021 12:34 PM)stever20 Wrote:  I don't think it's a premiere job at all in the SEC any longer. I don't know that it's a top half job any longer.

Tennessee's 10 year trailing average Sagarin rating puts them at #40 in the FBS. The only SEC schools with a worse rating are Kentucky and Vanderbilt, though the Vols are about on a par with Ole Miss and Arkansas by that measure.

To the extent that it could be called a premier job, it's only because they are in the SEC, not because their performance warrants it.

Alabama in the 10 years prior to Nick Saban 67-55 and only 5 seasons with winning records. And when you drop forfeits, its 50-55 with 4 seasons with winning records.

Yet they were always a top 10 job.

Alabama in those 10 years finished in the top 11 3 times- 8th 2x and 11th once.

Tennessee in the last 10 years 60-62. With 2 times in the 21-25. Tennessee hasn't finished top 11 since 2001.

Also Alabama has a whole lot more history than Tennessee ever has. Alabama had 7 national titles before Saban took over in the poll era. Tennessee has 2.

Tennessee claims 7 or 8. Seems like whoever won that Alabama-Tennessee game claimed an MNC.

I was using the poll era. If you go to all of them it'd be 17-7 before Saban got there.