In honor of the Tennessee Vols — who turned in a heroic performance to win the Southeastern Conference regular season championship outright last night — we here at 3SIB decided to ask our favorite “Hero” to endorse this all-orange Goodies post.

Ms. Panettiere obliged. So, here goes the orange …

• If you want to get inside the numbers, nobody does it better than Joel over at RTT
  
• Here’s mass celebration from Fulmer’s Belly and Govolsextra.com and the MoonDog man.
• RBK goes with the prose: At the end of the night, it was Tennessee that managed to grab it like a kid under the Christmas tree, ripping the paper off and letting out a scream of emotion as the wrapping revealed a reward no Tennessee team in the last four decades had earned: an outright SEC championship.
• Some farkilicious action over at LWS. And a little more at PowerT, where they poke a little fun at those Vanilla Ice wannabe, highways-on-one-sideway Gators.
• An old buddy — and Gator — Andy Staples has a nice piece for CNNSI.com
• Think Bruce Pearl doesn’t respect Billy D and the Gators? Try this one: “This is a very special place to come win championships,” noticeably hoarse-sounding UT coach Bruce Pearl said. “We have unbelievable respect for them.” Here’s Wes Rucker’s link.
• How are they feeling in Gainesville? Picking NITs, I see.
• Highlights, courtesy of ESPN.
• The Orlando Sentinel’s Dave Curtis has a strong piece on Tennessee’s Pearl.

I’ll leave you with my favorite quote of the night, from JaJuan Smith in the Chattanooga Times-Free Press, this great player and proud Tennessean speaks for us all about the championship:

“This means a lot to me, my family and my state.”

It certainly does …

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