Bye week to-do list for the Vols and ranking Tennessee's 10 best players so far

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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GoVols247's Ryan Callahan and Patrick Brown discuss what Tennessee needs to accomplish during its first open date of 2025 and who the best players have been for the Vols so far this seasons. In the first segment, we assessed the team's health situation and who Tennessee could get back for its next game against Arkansas. Then we discussed the areas the Vols need to improve moving forward the rest of the season. We also highlighted some young players who need to make the most of the extra practices this week to earn more playing time or be ready if they are called on -- like David Sanders Jr. and Jack Van Dorselaer were against Mississippi State. Then Patrick and Ryan each ranked Tennessee's 10 best players so far this season. The top six are pretty obvious, but the Vols have a lot of contenders because a lot of players have contributed to their 4-1 start. Where did we agree and where did we have differences? 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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0:00.0	Welcome into the GoValls 24-7 podcast.
0:03.1	I am Patrick Brown.
0:04.0	I'll be joined on this episode by Ryan Callahan.
0:07.1	It is Tennessee's open date by week, whatever you want to call it.
0:11.2	There's no football game for the Valls on Saturday, but still plenty to discuss as Tennessee
0:14.7	is 4-1 coming out of September and heading into October and has a game against Arkansas,
0:23.2	looming on October 11th. That game at Neeland Stadium will be a 415 kick on the SEC network and we will see what the state of the Arkansas
0:28.3	coaching staff is after the firing of Sam Pittman following the Razorbacks 5613 lost to Notre Dame
0:35.0	last week. Ryan, there's no football this weekend, but for Tennessee at least, but we get to watch
0:40.5	some and what are your open Saturday plans?
0:44.5	Yeah, hopefully watching a lot of football.
0:46.5	That's, I mean, nothing.
0:48.9	I mean, this is a first world problem, but, you know, the biggest frustration with our job sometimes is the
0:55.8	inability to watch all the great games that everyone else gets to enjoy on Saturdays.
0:59.8	I mean, nothing explains that better than last weekend.
1:02.6	We're in Starkville riding in the press box and trying to watch during this podcast as the
1:08.3	end of the Oregon Penn State and Alabama, Georgia games are going on simultaneously,
1:15.5	and I got to watch none of those games.
1:17.9	So that's what I'm looking forward to this week, at least a couple good games,
1:22.5	and hopefully some others will surprise us.
1:24.5	But yeah, looking forward to seeing a lot of football this weekend and not having to
1:28.8	not having to travel anywhere since we'll be doing a lot of that over the next the next three weeks or so
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