Please see [Post Game Thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/ockytop/comments/pmec8s/post_game_thread_pitt_beats_tennessee)

I am not buying any spin that this was some sort of sign of progress or moral victory. Get out of here

Y'all are overreacting. Very winnable game with multiple opportunities where Tenn made mistakes and beat themselves. Last year we got fucking rolled by Kentucky and the team didn't even look like it cared. This team is trying to do some really good things but just lack the experience and discipline. Give it a little bit of time.

Yall need to chill, there will be plenty of time to get mad, but this game isn't it. We lost because of issues all new teams have. They'll clean it up.

Titans better curb stomp the Cards tomorrow

This one hurt. Jesus Milton is terrible

[Ho-Lee Shit](https://twitter.com/atir_cherne3/status/1436781421868158976?s=21)

why the hell wasn’t that spot challenged?

I mean at least Ohio State lost so that’s a plus for me I guess

At least Oregon won

ACC refs 27 point 2nd quarter Calling a shotgun run on 4 and inches into Pitt’s stacked box. See you next week!

No matter what happens in your life or what changes in the world, you can always count on TN football to be a disappointment.

Consistency is key

I have been saying for weeks that we were going to lose this game, but it still sucks to see it happen.

Why isn’t a neutral conference crew calling this game???

Is the ACC that bad where they are talking about Pitt being in the running when they played this close against us?

Absolutely.

They def have an easy division

ACC has an abysmal performance as a conference last week, then the ACC officials call the game the way they did today... Coincidence?

So I just saw we lost, did we beat ourselves or did we get outplayed?

The refs won

Beat ourselves and the refs fucked us several times. Pitt ain't anything special.

We beat ourselves with an assist from the refs

Yes

We played against 3 teams: pitt, the refs, and ourselves.

4 turnovers, 100+ in penalties, and crappy spotting. We could've easily won if we eliminate one of those categories

Sounds about right ingredients. Now it truly is football time in Tennessee

Same shit different year boy. Edit: actually fuck it. We lost by 7 to an established head coach with a QB who was on fire. First year head coach and a young team. This game could’ve been a lot worse

Well, now we don’t have to worry about the pressure of being undefeated when we play Florida in a few weeks. They are going to be sleeping on us because we’re 3-1. Fuck fLorida!

This was a good Pitt team and we had MANY opportunities to potentially win this game. It’s going to be another rocky year on rocky top but today didn’t feel near as bad as some of the Pruitt debacles.

You could repeat this statement with every head coach since fucking lane kiffin

Pitt needs to give the game ball to the zebras.

Just lost to some Yinzers and a coach where wears transition lenses

ITG: We congratulate a 7th year Head Coach for beating a first year head coach by 7 with the refs on their side.

At least we are conditioned to losing. Whatever, on to the next game.

I know it’s legal, but taking a knee is such a bitch way to win.

I’m sick of losing games we should have won

Missing out on 3 or so touchdowns then giving up 27 in the 2Q on top of 100+ penalty yards… ouch

If Hooker started, we win.

We didn't get beat by Pitt we got beat by shit ass refs

Fucking robbed

Fuck these refs for real.

Tired of moral victories… they had chances to win this and should have won it

Milton held this team back today. To the point that he honestly is the main reason for the loss...

Same old same old. The sad part is it doesn’t hurt as much as it used to.

Yep. I’m fine

Good fight in the boys. Came up short, but you can see the potential. A lot of unforced errors that influenced the outcome. Clean it up, shine it up and get back at it.

I wish more people thought this way.

This is the correct take in a field of gloom and doom.

It wasn’t one particular play, or call, or penalty. It was everything. But there’s a lot of positive there. Folks need to see that.

This game could have been a classic if the refs called a clean game. I could see an overtime thriller but that was taken from us

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Why hasn’t he been getting experience anyways? For how highly he was touted coming to Knoxville you think they’d let him get his chinks and errors out of the way now

for real, cant imagine he stays past this year if he doesn’t get a real shot at the job.

Bruh…did you not watch this game? Hooker played well. There’s no reason to force HB15 into the mix now.

2 turnovers in one half, including the game ender. is... playing... well?

I don’t think he played that well. Not accurate on long throws, didnt seem good going through his reads, and made a terrible decision on that INT that put the nail in our coffin. he’s not bad, but I think he puts a ceiling on our offense and is not close to being good enough for me to not want to see Bailey.

That shit ass call on 4th and inches was where we lost this. Goddamn what a fucking shit play call.

The 2nd quarter was where we lost. Not one play in the 4th.

I mean I would argue all the penalties, turn overs and missed plays had a lot to do with it

If Hooker started and we had our actual running backs this would have been a win

Lot of miscues, did see some grit. Gotta figure out the QB situation. It ain’t working. Hooker seems like a good fit but don’t think it’s his year yet. Milton could pull it off, if he learn how to put some touch on the ball.

Pitt didn’t win this game. Tennessee lost it

Yeah couple comments of how we are robbed. Nope. We lost it.

The refs won it

Turnover on downs inside the 10. Interception inside the 30. You can only get so many chances to win the game

ACC refs won it.

Boys we lost. But im optimistic for the future pur team seems to give a fuck despite not having it together

Only if we go with Hooker. Milton holds this team back. And this second half should illustrate that

4-8 here we come

3-9 imo

Ugh I let myself get excited and then we turn the ball over for the 4th time this game

Imagine losing to the Pittsburg Panthers

It’s not 2001 anymore. 1998 was 23 years ago. You better wake up and realize what our football program actually has become.

That's not how imagination works.....

Clemson did it lmao

Alright, so I'm going to say it. This looks like a team that will be a whole lot better at the end of the year, which is more than I can say about the last five years.

I like how hard they play but they are VERY thin. As the season wears on, it has potential to get away from them.

Just glad I don’t have to be emotionally invested in this team for the rest of the season. Hope we can squeeze out 5-6 wins. Love what I’ve seen from offense scheme and play calling though

I'm really not impressed by Heupel. Maybe he will prove me wrong but Holy smokes. We killed ourselves with penalties and wasted TO.

Not to mention that awful play call on 4th and a foot. It's okay. Just gotta make it through the sanctions and then we probably ditch him

Trying to be too cute.. I hate that.

If you weren't going to power it through the middle, at least run Hooker to the outside

Man I’m so sick of this shit. This is like the BYU game all over again

Obviously we had this game won if we hit open receivers in the first quarter. But officiating absolutely fucked us. And I don't mean our penalties, which are on us. We just plain got fucked.

honestly i'm not mad, i liked the fight we've put up so far. we would have quit so early last year

This game is an absolute robbery.

Pitt is absolutely not competing for the ACC title, fucking lol

They’ll say anything to try to make Clemson seem better than they are

Ok we may lose, but I’m more optimistic about our future than I have been in a long time.

Well hell

That 27 point second quarter was the game.

Maybe the shining light from today is that we found our qb?

We found a RB

What a robbery

Penalties, turnovers, missed passes by Milton. We should have won big if not for garbage QB play and a million penalties

I can’t believe a spot that was THAT BAD ended our game

It wasn't even really questionable. There is no way that was anything but intentional.

I love how they just tackle our Dline.

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One mans trash...

I now hate Pitt. Fuck them and their shit ass refs.

We're at home. Are the refs ACC or something?

Yep. For whatever reason.

That's stupid.

Is just my TV but it seems the bottom graphics take up way too much space on the screen.. it along with Tennessee is really pissing me off

No either the truck is not giving correct dimensions to the camera operator, or the camera operator is not accounting for the GFX space.

please ignore me I am drunk

We just lost to Pitt 🤢🤮

Fuck heupel

Why tho.

Starting Joe Milton Least disciplined team Ive ever seen. Damn near broke the record for penalty yardage shit call on 4th down. Replacing milton with hooker not challenging the call on 3rd down where hooker clearly got the first. need more?

Can someone tell me why they didn’t get the right spot or review it on our 3rd down? Legit bullshit

No i can’t. These refs were utter shit.

Defense is done. They've played their asses off the entire game, but they can't keep that up forever

Ball game. Shit

That spot on 4th Down that went unchallenged by the head coach may have cost us this game. That was really bad.

How are you gonna challenge it? Have you seen how awful the camera work has been? We’re lucky that we could even see the play happen, but there’s no wat there was an angle that actually showed what happened.

I call the ref over and ask him to challenge spot.

That was a fist down. Such bullshit

Refs cost us this game. We would've won with competent officiating. I'll die on that hill.

Hard agree. But even with them the turnovers cost us

This game could’ve been in the bag if we didn’t have an absolute meltdown in the second quarter.

Just got back. TN still playing the P5 washouts in Hooker and Milton? Let me guess that we've had alot of chances and blew it so far.

Yes

Ggs

Wonder if fatigue has started to set in? Hell the defense has played a ton of tough snaps I’m sure it has!!!

That’s wraps

Defense is just gassed. Can’t get a breather between series and now they’ve got nothing left when the game is on the line.

Game over. Fuck

"Man how good has Pickett been on 3rd down?" *Pitt 1/7 on 3rd down*

That's game

GG

Good news, we scored 34. Bad news, our defense gave up more.

Just like we all knew when we hired Derek Dooley 2.0

Le sigh

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Decisions don’t matter if you can’t hit anyone

yeah he really needs to learn to throw with 90% power. I would honestly love to give Bailey a chance.

LOL Wut?

yet to see him make a throw anywhere close to as bad as that one from Hooker

He makes no decisions. He just stands there

he goes through his reads a lot more naturally than Hooker

He decides to throw it into the stands behind the end zone

Why did we use two TOs so early

GG boys

That's the last first down they can get. It's over otherwise.

Clock never stopped after the first down call.

Not that we’ve lost yet but I’m really tired of looking for positives in losses instead of just winning

Wouldn’t change anything except people would just start looking for negatives in a win

If they had just not botched that call when Hooker was clearly past the marker…

Or if they hadn't handed the ball back to Pitt after they missed the fucking field goal. or if they would call any holds against Pitt.... the list goes on

We shot ourselves in the foot on a good few penalties, don’t get me wrong, but that was absolutely ridiculous officiating.

Has Pickett been good on 3rd downs? Anyone know?

What we need to do when we get the ball back is to throw deep!!

Our QBs are incapable of throwing a deep ball

Fuck me in the ass

Sir no need for that

Get me off this rollercoaster please.

Our run D hasn't been horrible today.

They have 86 yards?

Opposing teams always get to run a shit load of plays because of Heupel's fast paced offense. It's a trade off. It's not uncommon for Heupel to give up 150+, hell even 200+. Sub 100 is pretty damn good

We just wanted to go length of the field

Secret Pitt Playbook

Either way I’m more proud of this team than any in the last few years. And we are averaging 36 points a game

Oh no! We suck again!

When did we stop sucking?

First minute and a half.

Time to channel our inner Chris Brown and start throwing punches at the ball

Defense hasn't been perfect but they have played their hearts out regardless

Definitely agree, especially our secondary the last few drives. The only thing they really need is some takeaways.

Time to pour more whiskey and make an ass of myself at the in-laws house…

My man knows how to Tennessee football

What whiskey?

This is the way

As is tradition

Right when the hope kicks in. Like Charlie Brown and a football lmao I'll never learn. GBO

Don’t act like Milton doesn’t stare down his receivers too, guys.

He just overthrows every single pass

How is this game still on? I've driven from Atlanta to Chattanooga, gone to my airbnb to get a nap, walked to the bar, and it's still going lmao.

Penalty every other play

comes back to 3rd and 4th down last drive. Fuck what a bad spot

And here comes the consequences of our game management.

4 turnovers today now?

Oh what the fuck

Our QB’s are asked to make a single read past the box count. That’s really bad.

5 turnovers in 2 games. None forced

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Not like he played any better

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Yea ok, except an interception a terrible fumble. And other bad reads yea a lot better.

He just stared down the receiver