I apologize for how long it took to select these excerpts from the Tennessee Message Board together but they were voluminous - approximately 270 pages. Overall, the Tennessee fans truly believed they were the better team and would blow Purdue out and their upset when things didn't go that way is obvious from the tone of their posts. Lots of whining about the officials as well as criticism of their own team's efforts. The posts are best characterized as a general arrogance toward any team that's not in the SEC or which doesn't have their storied football history. Enjoy!
I gotta say I’ll be disappointed in anything less than a dominating win. Go Big Orange!!!
I thought I read that Wright was out for tomorrow too? If that's the case, their QB could have a rough day with only playing with receiver's that have caught 1200 yards and 10 TDs this season once you take away Wright and Bells production for the year. He will probably look like a Heisman candidate as their 3rd and 4th string WR's have a day though.
I think this will be a repeat of the TaxSlayer Bowl vs. Iowa and the Outback vs. Northwestern. UT wins easily. In fact I'll be surprised if it's even ever that close.
Kick the crap out of Purdue today. Let’s go Vols!!
Score 14 on them before the subs finish tying their cleats!
I hope we kick Purdue right in the Boilermaker!
Commentators aren’t going to let us forget Purdue is missing players today. I hate it, I’d rather play them at full strength, but we get it. Just shut up about it already.
Is Purdue missing any players?
Just got home, turned on the tv 5 minutes ago, if it didn’t say Tennessee at the bottom of the screen I wouldn’t know who was playing. They are just talking about Purdue.
LMAO at the announcers laying the foundation of excuses for a Purdue loss.
Got to take an absolute kill shot on the QB when he runs like that.
Purdue's LT clearly studied at the Alabubba school of holding....ahem, I mean blocking.
Love the Brandon chant!!
So, we've stolen a possession from them. And that QB doesn't look accurate when he has someone in his face.
We know, we know, he is the most efficient passer in the Big Ten.
Former walk-on! Who knew?
TD Vols!!!!
Can we not sing Rocky Top after every good thing that happens?
Get ****ed Purdue.
Tell that Purdue DB coach Hooker's only hitting 50% of his throws over 25 yes today too.
Purdue is playing with fire running that cover 0 on us. We will destroy them in that.
It's still very early, but, if I were a Purdue fan, I wouldn't feel good about my team playing from behind against this Tennessee offense.
Are there any Purdue fans in Nashville?
Purdue's six fans really shouting out.
The rout is on!
Purdue. These secondary coverage choices. Thank you. You are too kind.
Waiting for the announcers to say we only scored so fast because Purdue is without their best 2 receivers.
Purdue can’t handle this fast paced offense. Look for them to start flopping soon.
Another bunch of slow, Big Ten, overrated crap!
Defense looks terrible.
This defense is last in the SEC against the pass for a reason.
This Purdue love fest is puke worthy!
Jordan Rodgers bitch ass gotta add in more things that Purdue is having to overcome with the WR needing three knee surgeries, a heart transplant, and a sex change, but is out there giving his all.
Guess we back to having to beat the refs today also, def hasn't been in our favor! The Purdue suck fest is getting old fast also!
Did everyone know Purdue has two wins over top 5 opponents and their QB was 8th string?
Not a single mention of all our players not starting today either. We have seniors in high school playing in the secondary right now.
Purdue jumping around like they’re playing for a national title.
F*** off Purdue with your shaking your heads and all that. Just shut up.
Clearly not only did Purdue learn how to hold from Bama, the Refs studied there, too.
Those end zones look like they gave me a bottle of vodka and some spray paint last night. Just awful!
The end zones look like one of those tests for color blindness.
I was just thinking about how much I hate every team we play. I have no reason to hate Purdue but they might as well be ‘Bama right now.
You hate Purdue because Rudy’s dad all taught us to hate Purdue.
I wanna learn MORE about this heroic Purdue team!!! I wish the announcers would talk about just how HEROIC they are!!
CEDRIC TILLMAN YOU MONSTER! TD!!
14-7 VOLS!
I hope we beat them by 50. Not because the players but because Brohm is a smart ass..always has been.
Are we gonna hear how Purdue has guys out the whole friggin game?
I wish Purdue was healthy because we’d be gassing these fools anyway and wouldn’t have to listen to these clowns.
I'm unclear on this. Does Purdue have anyone out?? Is it just HEROIC how HEROIC they are??? Asking for an ESPN friend.....
Wonder if the Pur-don't secondary coach still questions Hooker's % over 10 yards?
I realize it is Purdue, but watching this offense all year, it’s the first time I’ve ever believed that an offensive scheme can actually score any time it wants.
Wooohoooo a pick!
Tennessee is the most electric team in college football, don’t care what anyone says.
Two things we can all agree on: 1) the end zones look terrible, 2) the announcers are pumping Purdue. I wonder if the later is because they know Tennessee fans will watch no matter what but Purdue may tune out early?
Suck it Big 10... Touchdown Tennessee!!
Blow their doors off!
Finish them!
The route is on folks! Let’s put 60 on these Yankee doodles!
Hahahahahahah our offense is so damn good.
100 or bust boys.
We owe them for that Sweet 16 loss a few years ago. I want a bloodbath. They can ride back to Indiana in their little train car thing with their tails between their legs.
BIG TEN DONT WANT NONE OF THIS!!
Time to plunge the knife deeper and twist that sucker. Strike first, strike hard, no mercy!
Honestly I’m not even worried. Our offense is like a hot knife through butter against their defense.
I don't understand why we can't get any pressure on the QB.
The Purdue team is slow how do they keep getting down field?
Boy looks like we just held them to only a FG.
Yo, Purdue kicking FGs is like bringing a knife to a gunfight.
Purdue is frustrated, and they are done!
Please keep scoring TDs. I want this Music City Bowl scoring record lol.
Ha! Purdue d starting to get butt hurt.
Purdue QB looking like Brees!
O’Connell has one of those faces you just wanna punch!
Oh look, more fake injuries.
Second flop on the day for Alexander.
I believe Brohm called up Kiffim for his best advice on how to slow down the Tenn offense.
Hooker is getting gassed and not making easy plays. Not good. We need to get into halftime really soon.
Good lord......where did the Tennessee team that started the game go?
Big ‘ol cornbread fed boy running all over us.
Purdue is some whiny ass bitches!
Tennessee just blowing a big old wet fart all over the field right now.
For all Tennessee's early points, Purdue looks like the better team right now. Astounding.
Need the ball back and a quick TD. 28-16 (or 28-13) would be huge.
Purdue is going to flop at least a couple more times before the half. Book it.
U gotta B kidding me...
Definitely a fumble!
We are trash!! JH needs to eat some ass at halftime.
Man!!! What the **** is going on with the O?? Wheels off, wagon down, canned goods all over the road......
Dane gets whipped again and this Purdue team is DIRTY!
Vols are finally playing down to their potential.
Had our tails absolutely handed to us in the second quarter. Someone better wake the he!! up at half.
Let’s all pretend this 2nd quarter wasn’t real.
Tennessee fans should get a 25% discount on their tickets because the Vols never show up in the second quarter.
Purdue QB coulda done a two-step and made the endzone there.....
Purdue now has lead!
We really took timeouts so we’d get the ball back which resulted in another Purdue score. Lol.
Making my ass wanna chew tobacco.
It’s those dang white uniforms. Stormtrooper my azz!
Heupel gonna have to earn his pay at halftime. Vols need a knot jerked in their ass.
We want Bama!
I wanted us to hire Jeff Brohm in 2017 - he’s a hell of a coach!
Imagine if Purdue had all those players that opted out. They'd probably be up by 21.
No need to panic yet,...after all, we are playing Purdue...I can't and won't take that program seriously in football.
R-E-L-A-X.... Tennessee will win this by at least 2 scores. We’ve seen it all year 2nd qtr let down.
Hot start in the second half thus far.
Looks like the slant might frustrate Purdue. Might want to mix more of that in.
TOUCHDOWN TENNESSEE!
We needed that TD like a prostitute needs a priest.
Now THAT is TN football. Enough of this nonsense. Time to put these guys away.
We are having trouble stopping the tight end/running back guy from running the ball.
These dang PIs are killing us!
Haven't seen a white fullback running the ball since the last time we faced a Big 10 team.
When I get to a point that I can’t be any good at anything else in my life I’m gonna apply for a college football referee.
ESPN going nuts over Purdue's big running back ..... drooling all over the place.
That big rb is beating the piss out of us. Our guys don't even want to hit him. Give the dude credit.
Vols making him look like Mike Alstott.
Their dang QB gonna throw for 450 on us.
Plow boys balling out on the Vols! SMH
Love how our secondary stands around after every catch looking at each other.
This Purdue team is dirty and we are playing right into their game.
Purdue Touchdown. We have no defense at all!
Sheffield wasn’t good enough to play here. Now killing us!
By rules when it moved while he was out of bounds, it should be called incomplete. Not saying I agree with the rules, but by rules it shoulda been incomplete. Think that was pity call because the player got hurt.
Purdue hasn’t run the ball on anyone all year. TN defense - “hold our beers.”
Nothing says Happy New Year like watching your favorite team get worked over by a D-III caliber walk on.
Our pass defense should be called the Sasquatch Defense. It doesn't exist.
We’re play like p-ssies. Purdue plays like grown as physical men. Purdue wants to win and we’re just going through the motions.
Purdue sucks and their football program is a joke. Losing to them means we played poorly. It doesn't mean Purdue is good.
Is Purdue sneaking guys onto the field? How in the world do we let guys get so wide open, so consistently?
Good grief, EVERY story is about Purdue, and every story is praise for Purdue's players. I feel like I've been told everything there is to know about Purdue's players, their walk-ons, their back-ups, their walk ons, and Tennessee, well, Tennessee has a guy named Hooker. Great.
Beautiful pick!
Finally something positive.
Coach looked annoyed having to settle for the FG. lol
If you are a neutral fan, this is the best bowl game of the season.
If these cheese dick announcers say one more time about Purdue being short handed in the secondary but not the same about us I’ll lose it.
We have more talent by a mile. should be up by 4 TDs!
Zero pressure. O Connell is working on his graduate degree back there.
Our DBs couldn’t cover a twin bed with a California king blanket!
BOOM ....... Interception again!
Have you ever seen a more inconsistent offense as Purdue’s? One minute they look unstoppable, next horrible.
Another "hurt" player!
Purdue faking injuries. Shocked.
Kiffin set the precedent for flopping against Tennessee. Every coach has reviewed that film as evident with Brohm.
I honestly think we don't have the right cleats. This field is a crapburger. Should be an embarrassment to the stadium crew and bowl.
No wonder the titans have historically struggled. This field is a joke.
According to these announcers Purdue must be pulling fans from the stands to field a team this half.
Good God .... more freaking players are flopping.
Wow, what a pitiful display of sportsmanship by Purdue. Absolutely pitiful.
It appears that Purdue has caught the Oxford Fainting Goat Disease just in time for the 4th quarter.
So because of the fake injury now they get to find a reason to overturn the catch.
Faked injury gonna cost us a catch. It is so bad that I absolutely hate Purdue!
These refs deserved mustard and golf balls.
Another flop! Thoughts and prayers!
Purdue flopping like a run over turkey.
We play the worst hydrated teams in the damn country.
Told you all Brohm is a straight up prick..
Calling Purdue a trash program is a compliment, because you acknowledge they have a program. To me they are irrelevant. They are like Vandy. Who cares that they exist or have a football program? They are completely irrelevant.
We’ve been irrelevant for 10 years.
So. Purdue has always been irrelevant.
Purdue isn’t a garbage team. They beat 2 top 5 teams this year. Honestly, I’m not sure we’ve beaten 2 top 5 teams in the past 20 years.
I wish the absolute worse for Brohm and Purdue. Bunch of damn cowards.
Well they just booed our DB coming off the field with a clear arm injury. Then they booed Tremblay being down with a shot to the knee. We gain nothing from faking injuries.
Purdue fans are trashy.
It’s amazing that the Purdue WR is able to play through his leg injuries quite well but not a single Purdue defensive player can.
Who cares? We are getting out played by a slow, average B10 team that’s without its best players in offense and defense.
Keep throwing the flags you damn robots!
These officials are garbage. Impossible to defend when everything is PI. He was fighting for the ball which he has every right to do!
Has there been a single holding call on Purdue?
You have got to be kidding me.............
That might have been the worst tackling in the history of UT football.
That was one of the most embarrassing plays I’ve ever witnessed.
Absolute trash defense. Gave up on the play and gives Purdue a TD. Pathetic.
Too busy trying to strip the ball to tackle him.
Score damnit! To hell with Purdue and these refs!
PI on Perdue - no flag of course.
Vols touchdown. Damn it. Now play some freaking defense.
Why not go for 2?
We need the Purdue QB and his middle school mustache to throw a pick.
Punch them in the damn mouth now!
UN…..BE….. LIEV….ABLE
Wow. Bad pass defense is bad. 70 yards.
Looked like offensive PI.
This may be the worst secondary in football history. It’s shockingly bad.
They’re beating us with a WR who has 1 knee.
29 deserves to have two real knee injuries just for the stupid drama he brings.
530 yards passing for Purdue's QB.
We still got plenty of time to answer.
If we tie this game again, I hope to everything holy they put someone other than Burrell in for the last minute.
Holy hell Hyatt caught it!!!
TD Jalen Hyatt!
Go for two. I can't take anymore!
4 TDs in the last 4 minutes. Insane.
I feel like I'm watching the last 10 min. of the first Rocky movie.
My grandpa Joe just pooped his pants - he’s 89 though.
Plenty of time for Purdue with all their TO's. Need a turnover.
We need 4 knees on their WR with 1 knee.
D held!!!!
Our trophy should be shaving that kid's sorry mustache off at midfield. Provided we win of course.
Anyone got some heart pills they can spare?
Just need 25 yards to get into FG range.
No reason really to throw it deep there.
What the hell, Hooker? Why throw deed there again?
How in the suck do you not call that PI on them holding our Receiver? They damn sure called PI on Tenn plenty!!! SOB!
Hey Coach, dial up another stupid play!
A 56 yard field goal?
McGrath needs a telescope to see the goals posts.
Dear 7lb 4oz Baby Jesus, I promise I will give up drinking if we make this field goal.
Overtime.
Get ready to get screwed by refs in overtime.
Of course, we get the coin toss wrong!
1st and goal. Gutsy 4th down call.
4th. Kick it or risk it? Risk it is.
Please Kick it!
Mother of god!!! How’s that not a touchdown?
Forward progress so they can’t review it.
How can your forward progress be stopped when you are still moving forward??? WTF???
His knee did not touch the ground. TD, IMO.
TD but refs ****ed us!
Can't complain. Heupel made the decision to pass on a FG. This is on him.
That’s a damn touchdown! Bama would’ve gotten that call!
The refs are bought and paid for.
Even the Purdue fans around us said that was a touchdown.
Purdue wins.
Purdue so undermanned I believe the nose tackle just kicked the game winning FG!
Purdue isn't that good. TN completely lost this game themselves... Purdue just took advantage and took what was handed to them.
They had a better record than us with 2 top 5 wins. They are better than us.
I hope these refs get explosive diarrhea tonight!
Purdue has nothing to celebrate. They lost and the refs handed them the game.
Nope... Purdue outplayed and outclassed us.
I told y’all this game was over a long time ago. It didn't matter what happened, the refs would make sure Tennessee would lose.
Did we play perfect ? No
Did we coach perfect? No
Did we get screwed by the refs? You bercha!
Purdue was complete trash and their QB looks like a child diddler.
We deserved to lose and refs made sure we got what we deserved.
I think we thought we were just gonna come in and drop 40 in the first half and the games over. Didn’t pan out. Hats off to Purdue.
It wouldn’t feel so bad if it were bad on both sides. But it burns because we got whistled for touches and they got by with a lot of no calls.
Can't believe we lost to this trash program...
Lol at anyone who thought Purdue was a joke. They probably felt disrespected after the big games they won and barely lost the others. Meanwhile their opponent has beaten 1 barely ranked team and blown out by the best teams they've played. It's a matter of perspective. In many ways this was a bad match-up for both teams but Tenn was likely correctly favored. But it's a joke to think this should've been a blowout. That's the kool-aid talking.
Congratulations on the win, Purdue.
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