The home opener is tomorrow at Neeland Stadium, Tennessee and ETSU goals and players to watch in this one.

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every single day. Today's episode is brought to you part by our friends over Fandall Sportsbook. Football season is here. Visit Fandall app today and start planning your future bets now. A lot to get into here today, breaking down, or I guess that's just a previewing Tennessee and East Tennessee State University. Boogie Bentley of the Talking Balls Network going to join us for as every morning, as every Friday morning hit during football season. That's coming up in segments two and three. But first, here in segment number one, some goals for Tennessee in a game that, let's just call it what it is. It is a quote-unquote Cupcake game, right? It is a payday game for the bucks of East Seency State University, and that's

no disrespect. It is what it is. ETSU competes at the FCS level. They've had some great success

since the program's resurfaced under Randy Sanders specifically. Trey Lamb was there a season

ago. Now it's Will Healy. Will Healy had great success at Austin P.

Spent some time at Charlotte. He's 39 years old and upgrade five years age-wise, at least from the 34-year-old Trey Lamb, a little bit different from Carl Torbush, who took over the program

when it resurfaced and then, of course, Randy Sanders. But a program that has had some success, but they don't need to have any success in a game like this. And I'll explain why. Again, it's a payday game. This is kind of what this is at the beginning of the season. So with that being said, what is a successful game for the University of Tennessee? What does that look like? Well, I got a list right here. These are my goals for the quote-unquote Cupcake game against East Tennessee State University. Goal number one, get out of there relatively injury-free. I know that's a tall task because you saw what happened last week and football is a contact sport, right? I mean, that's just no one's going to be feeling fantastic when you lead this game. That's just kind of the nature of the beast. But you need to avoid some injuries like a Ricky Gibson or like a Jackson Moy or,

you know, like some of these other guys from last week. You need to avoid it. You need to leave the

game relatively injury free in comparison to where you were. Number two, empty the bench completely.

Everybody in uniform needs to play in this football game.

Thanks to the new redshirt role, it's not new anymore, but a couple years old now, you can

play in four games and still maintain your red shirt. This is one of those games. Every single

player that is dressed, at least every single player

on scholarship, needs to be in this football game. I love for every walk on to get in this football

game. That is the type of game that this is. Empty the bench, let a ton, a ton of these young

guys that need to build some depth for these position groups play and get a whole lot of snaps. We're on that here in a moment. Number three, explosives on O. Saw some of those, 73-yard bomb to Brayland Staley from Joey Agnes in game number one. Saw, you know, Deshaun Bishop on a screen, or Deshaun Bishop break attack on the backfield, gain of 47. Love some of those explosives. Let's see some more explosives.

Game like this, you should be able to air it out. Pretty much do what you want to in certain

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