Georgia football: Which games could College Gameday or SEC Nation visit
SEC Nation: Georgia vs. Tennessee
This could realistically be the game to decide the SEC East standings. The Tennessee Volunteers are actually on a roll believe it or not. After starting the 2019 season 2-5 with head coach Jeremy Pruitt looking at a possible early exit, Tennessee ended the season with six-straight wins and the defense looked really good in each of them.
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Depending on how good the quarterback play is, whether it’s with Jarrett Guarantanno or Brian Maurer, Tennessee could carry that momentum through the first two months of the 2020 season. No one should expect Tennessee to enter its trip to Athens undefeated. The Volunteers travel to Oklahoma early in the season, host Florida in week four and host Alabama on the Third Saturday in October.
Tennessee should beat the rest of the teams on its schedule and could enter its game with Georgia as good as 7-2 overall (possibly better, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves) and 5-1 in the SEC. Georgia and Tennessee only have one SEC game after their meeting, so the winner of that game could become the SEC Eastern Division Champions.
Just being in the conversation by November 14 would be huge for the Tennessee program. The Volunteers haven’t won the SEC East since 2007, and haven’t even been within a game of first place since then despite finishing second in the SEC three times. Tennessee has also finished last in the SEC East three times since 2011.
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For such an occasion, SEC nation would no doubt visit Athens to be a part of possibly the biggest Georgia vs. Tennessee game since 2007, if not ever. The rivalry is usually played earlier in the season, so while SEC East implications have always there, they’ve never been as prominent.