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Previewing the 2016 Tennessee Volunteers

Much like Nebraska in 2016, Tennessee started the season with an impressive winning streak to enter college football’s Top Ten, being ranked ninth in both polls before stumbling to then-eighth ranked Texas A&M 45-38 in overtime. While pollsters were relatively kind after that loss and a 49-10 drubbing by Alabama, a 24-21 loss to South Carolina was too much. The October 0-3 swoon certainly left doubts about Tennessee both inside and outside the program. Wide receiver Preston Williams and star running back Jalen Hurd both left the program to play elsewhere, and fans throughout the SEC found head coach Butch Jones claims of being “champions of life” extremely humorous.

Losing to Vanderbilt the following week to close out the season wasn’t very funny. It cost the Vols a trip to the Sugar Bowl, though the consolation prize was a Music City Bowl berth just 180 miles from campus. Not exactly a bad consolation prize, but disappointing when the hopes all season long were for a New Year’s Day bowl, or perhaps even a playoff spot.

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