SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK Flapdoodle: Making a bunch of something out of nothing… expression derived during the Civil War among Confederates referring to unseasoned cast iron...
SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK Foundered: What happens when something sinks or begins to collapse or cave in … recovery is possible if given care and attention...
SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK Can’t dance, can’t sing, and it’s too wet to plow: Texas-originated expression implying that we might as well just go on and...
SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK You’d call an alligator a lizard: The way folks in the Yellow Hammer State have been talking about the outcomes of their...
Two Oxonians were among 61 food writers from around the nation honored last week at the 2015 annual Association of Food Journalists (AFJ) conference in Saint...
SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK I found myself: Not a reference to getting in touch with one’s inner feelings; instead, a colloquial means of over-emphasizing the significance...
SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK Like white on rice: Expression of undetermined but much speculated-upon American Southern origin, where rice has been grown for 400 years …...
SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK Come hell or high water: An oblique Biblical reference to The Great Flood, the expression is commonly used to imply that something’s...
SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK Big Orange: Pronounced Bih-garnge… Sometimes a reference to that rocky top Tennessee school, but around here more often used as a colloquial...
SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK High on the hog: A state of living or behaving that implies conspicuous consumption, as in “Eula Mae sure is living high...
| Sat, Aug 31 |  | vs Furman | W, 76-0 |
| Sat, Sep 7 |  | vs Middle Tennessee | W, 52-3 |
| Sat, Sep 14 |  | @ Wake Forest | W, 40-6 |
| Sat, Sep 21 |  | vs Georgia Southern | W, 52-13 |
| Sat, Sep 28 |  | vs Kentucky | L, 20-17 |
| Sat, Oct 5 |  | @ South Carolina | W, 27-3 |
| Sat, Oct 12 |  | vs LSU | L, 29-26 (2 OT) |
| Sat, Oct 26 |  | vs Oklahoma | W, 26-14 |
| Sat, Nov 2 |  | @ Arkansas | W, 63-35 |
| Sat, Nov 16 |  | vs Georgia | 2:30 PM ABC |
| Sat, Nov 23 |  | @ Florida | 11:00 AM ABC or ESPN |
| Sat, Nov 30 |  | vs Mississippi State | 2:30 PM ESPN or ABC |