I don't like Tennessee football. I'm hard-pressed to think of any true Vanderbilt fans who do. I'm not going to sit and list the reasons why because I'd run out of space.

At the center of the mass of annoying orangeness that is UT is new head coach Lane Kiffin, who’s compiled a sterling 6-16 record in the pros and college and conducts himself as if those numbers were reversed. His cheap shots at respected schools and coaches and his well-documented recruiting violations haven’t endeared him to anyone else in the conference.

So it goes without saying even more that I’ll be tuning in to CBS on Saturday when Tennessee, under loud-mouthed, underachieving Kiffin, who made the major-league mistake of saying when he was hired that he looked forward to singing “Rocky Top” all night long after beating Florida, takes on the Gators.

Wow, that was stupid. Tennessee was going to lose to Florida anyway. Now it’s going to be an unholy slaughter.

UT-Florida was a good rivalry a few years ago, but the last couple seasons it’s been embarrassing. Florida's won by a combined score of 89-26 in 2007 and 2008.

That's a rivalry like Vanderbilt-Tennessee was a rivalry for the latter half of the 20th century.

But Kiffin wasn’t done being obnoxious. His well-documented lie about Urban Meyer cheating in recruiting was completely inappropriate and downright childish, so of course it got him loads of attention (think Kanye West’s VMA antics).

Analysts have made the good point that any publicity for Tennessee is good publicity, and they did sign a top-10 recruiting class. But the way the Vols go about conducting their business reflects their emphasis on victory over fair play. It makes rooting against them a lot easier.

And Meyer doesn’t suffer his enemies lightly. Mark Richt, a class act coach, and the Georgia Bulldogs were soundly punished by the Gators a year after their celebration stunt in the end zone in a rare win over Florida. The next season, Meyer was calling timeouts in the fourth quarter of a 49-10 stomping of the Bulldogs en route to his second national championship in three seasons.

Georgia was actually good last season. Tennessee was horrendous.

The Vols aren’t off to a rollicking start this year either. A 19-15 home loss to UCLA (who they were favored to beat by 10 points) doesn’t inspire confidence.

Factor in Meyer’s vendetta, plus the fact that the Gators have wanted a piece of Kiffin and the Vols ever since he made those remarks, plus that Florida’s starting a Heisman winner at quarterback and Tennessee’s starting, um, Jonathan Crompton.

The beating Tennessee will almost certainly take in the Swamp this Saturday will probably make Orange Nation wonder what they were thinking when they embraced a guy who’s done a lot more talking than he’s ever done winning.