Bye week big-picture discussion on the state of Tennessee football and the Josh Heupel discourse

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🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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There's no game for Tennessee football on Saturday, but it's still been quite the week for the program with the Vols facing the reality of being out of College Football Playoff contention after the loss to Oklahoma. GoVols247's Ben McKee and Patrick Brown came together for a big-picture discussion on the state of Tennessee football coming off its third loss of the season and the discourse surrounding head coach Josh Heupel. This week has seen the discourse on Heupel and the Vols range from frustration and anger to comments from former players denigrating Heupel's outlook on Rocky Top. Then you have Kirk Herbstreit calling out Tennessee fans who want Heupel gone (there aren't many, but there are some) and saying the Vols need to lock him down for the long term. As if that wasn't enough, one national columnist thinks Heupel should leave Tennessee and go to Penn State. What do make of all of that? More importantly, what does Tennessee need to do over its final three games to salvage this season? And what changes do Heupel and the Vols need to make in the offseason to maintain their success and get over the hump to true championship contention? We discuss it all. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.7	slash setup welcome into the govall's 24-7 podcast i am ben m McKee, and I'm joined by Patrick Brown on this Friday, November 7th edition of the podcast.
0:44.6	Tennessee football not in action this weekend, which might be a good thing for some of you all's blood pressure and other health concerns.
0:56.6	Man, what a week it has been on Rocky Top for the Vols.
1:02.4	Patrick Brown.
1:03.2	How are you on this Friday?
1:05.5	Doing pretty good, Ben.
1:08.5	Yeah, it's been a little bit of a slower week on the football front.
1:12.2	Well, I mean, just in terms of there's not a game that you're looking ahead to, but I wouldn't say it's been slow.
1:18.1	There's been a lot of discourse, right?
1:19.6	Talking season is supposed to be in the summer, but it's been a talking few days since Tennessee's lost Oklahoma.
1:25.1	I'll put it that way.
1:26.9	It has. It's been a long week and a
1:31.3	week full of narratives. The hopes of Tennessee fans are not very high at the moment and rightfully so.
1:40.7	That loss to Oklahoma was very frustrating and should not have happened, quite frankly.
1:47.5	Not to take anything away from Oklahoma.
1:50.1	I do think just on paper, Tennessee and Oklahoma pretty evenly matched.
1:55.0	They certainly have different strengths, different weaknesses.
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