Category Archives: Gameday Conversations

It’s Gameday on Rocky Top, with the 2-2 (0-1) Tennessee Vols traveling to Athens to take on the 4-0 (2-0) Georgia Bulldogs at 3:30.

Here’s the Gameday Gameplan for Vols fans. Where and when to find the Vols game on TV, what other games to watch, and what to listen to and read as you wait for kickoff.

When is the Vols game, and what TV channel is it on?

Here are the particulars for today’s Tennessee game:

• Kickoff: 3:30
• TV: CBS
• Official video streaming: CBS
• Official audio streaming: Vol Network
• Live stats

The best other games for Vols fans to watch today

Here’s our list of games to watch today, curated just for Vols fans:

 

And here’s a searchable version of the entire college football TV schedule for the day:

 

GRT games and contests

While you’re waiting for the games to begin, make sure that you submit your answers to the GRT Guessing Game questions and update your picks for the GRT Pick ‘Em.

GRT game-week audio

Here’s Will’s regular Friday appearance with Josh Ward and Will West on WNML’s Sports 180:

After doing four episodes of the Gameday on Rocky Top Podcast last week, we did none this week because we couldn’t squeeze one in to a calendar full of therapy sessions. Our team therapist says that’s okay.

Pre-game prep

And to catch up on on your pre-game reading, have a look at our game preview posts from earlier this week:

• Bad days: On expectations and the experience of pain
• What Tennessee Does Well (So Far)
• Locks & Keys Week 5: Dawg Gone Shame
• Tennessee-Georgia statsy preview: Put a phonebook in your pants
• Tennessee Vols statistical rankings after Florida
• Updated projected win totals for the Vols after Week 4
• Sunday Best: Tennessee vs. Florida; Maybe We Need ‘Here’ To Get There
• GRT Guessing Game Results Week 4: Holtzclaw shrugs off getting blown up
• Florida 47 Tennessee 21 – Lost and Found
• BZACHARY wins Week 4 of the 2018 Gameday on Rocky Top Pick ‘Em Contest

Go Vols!

It’s Gameday on Rocky Top, with the 2-1 (0-0) Tennessee Vols hosting the 2-1 (0-1) Florida Gators at Neyland Stadium tonight at 7:00.

Here’s the Gameday Gameplan for Vols fans. Where and when to find the Vols game on TV, what other games to watch, and what to listen to and read as you wait for kickoff.

First, watch this

When is the Vols game, and what TV channel is it on?

Here are the particulars for today’s Tennessee game:

• Kickoff: 7:00
• TV: ESPN
• Official video streaming: ESPN
• Official audio streaming: Vol Network
• Live stats

The best other games for Vols fans to watch today

Here’s our list of games to watch today, curated just for Vols fans:

 

And here’s a searchable version of the entire college football TV schedule for the day:

 

GRT games and contests

While you’re waiting for the games to begin, make sure that you submit your answers to the GRT Guessing Game questions and update your picks for the GRT Pick ‘Em.

GRT game-week audio

We did four episodes of the Gameday on Rocky Top Podcast this week.

To auto-retrieve these via your phone so you can listen during your regular commute, subscribe via iTunes or Google:

 

Also, please take a quick moment to give us a rating and review. Bonus points if you use either of the following phrases in your review: “I’m going with Will’s gut,” or “Dooley’s sack of potatoes.”

And here’s Will’s regular Friday appearance with Josh Ward and Will West on WNML’s Sports 180:

Pre-game prep

And to catch up on on your pre-game reading, have a look at our game preview posts from earlier this week:

• The Confidence of Much Older Men
• Locks & Keys Week 4: Tennessee Tries to be Gata Annihilatas
• Tennessee-Florida statsy preview: Buckle up for an exciting finish
• Gators, Guarantano, and the Run-Pass Ratio
• MUST WATCH: Neyland Noise, Don’t Let Up
• Worth watching 9.18.18: Florida Week pressers
• Worth reading 9.18.18: What Florida Week means to Tennesseans
• Tennessee Vols statistical rankings after UTEP
• Updated projected win totals for the Vols after Week 3
• GRT Guessing Game Results Week 3: Randy Holtzclaw maintains lead
• C_hawkfan wins Week 3 of the 2018 Gameday on Rocky Top Pick ‘Em Contest

The GRT Community Twitter List

Until I am convinced that too much Twitter on Gameday is no longer detrimental to your emotional well-being, I am going to continue to look for ways to foster healthy online conversation about the Vols during games. Last week, I poked my head into the Twitter party, didn’t like what I saw, and came back here. It’s a smaller group, sure, but I much prefer a gathering of friends than runaway groupthink headed for the ledge.

I’m still looking for the absolute best way to enable that, though, so for now we’ll be running the game thread here (our own community), and alongside it we’ll be adding a Twitter list especially curated for the purpose of supplementing that conversation with outside stuff, but only if that outside stuff actually adds value to the in-game conversation.

Hopefully, adding only the best from Twitter to our own conversation here will help us build an active and healthy in-game experience.

Go Vols!