247Sports College Football Daily: How Josh Heupel made Tennessee fun again
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🗓️ 10 November 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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You know the story of Tennessee football the last few months: Booted Jeremy Pruitt, hired the nondescript Josh Heupel, lost about two dozen players in the transfer portal. Yet here the Vols are in November, with an eight-win season still possible. It's one of the best and most surprising quick turnarounds this year in college football.
Host: Trey Scott
Guest: Wes Rucker
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| 0:00.0 | Tennessee football is fun again. It is Wednesday, November 10th. You're listening to the college football daily. My name is Trey Scott. We're about to bring in West Rucker, |
| 0:14.4 | reporter, columnist writer for GoValls 24-7, the 24-7 sports Tennessee site. |
| 0:20.3 | This is the most fun I've had watching a Tennessee Volunteers football team since Josh Dobbs, space Dobbs, was out there and I think a lot of Tennessee fans and I live in Nashville, I know plenty of them. |
| 0:31.5 | They deserve this after the Jeremy Pruitt years and after the |
| 0:34.4 | transfer Port of Lexidus lost 25 transfer scholarship players. A lot of people |
| 0:39.2 | thought six and six or five and seven no one was really in love with the Josh Heibel hire. Here they are the five and seven. No one was really in love with the Josh Hebel Hire. Here they are the five and four, |
| 0:45.5 | chance to finish seven to five in the regular season. Yeah, I am chalking out this weekend's game against Georgia |
| 0:51.1 | as a loss. The dogs are 21.5 point favorites. But this is a great story for Tennessee and it deserves some attention from us, especially since we had West on a few times in January when Tennessee was getting ready to rate itself of Jeremy Pruitt. |
| 1:05.0 | Of course we also had on Tuesday night the college football playoff rankings for the second |
| 1:09.7 | week, but those rankings were revealed between the two late basketball games, the Champions Classic basketball games, |
| 1:16.0 | and for our own personal sanity, we're just going to take a week off from reacting to those because that happened late. |
| 1:22.1 | So this episode is all about Tennessee, |
| 1:25.0 | and I think it's really interesting for fans of college football |
| 1:27.5 | in general, because like them or not, hate them or love them, |
| 1:30.9 | college football is good when Tennessee is good. And we're not saying Tennessee's like really really good, but they are good and they are really fun. Here's West Rucker. Okay, West Rucker joins us right now. Wes, I'm gonna guess that Tennessee |
| 1:44.3 | is the happiest five and four team in college football. |
| 1:47.2 | And I wanna make it very clear, |
| 1:48.4 | this is not a podcast episode |
| 1:50.1 | that's gonna do some sort of prediction |
| 1:52.0 | on how Tennessee can beat Georgia or keep up with Georgia. |
| 1:55.8 | This isn't what we're doing here. |
| 1:57.3 | I just want to be fair because several months ago we've had you on a few times during the |
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