For those paying attention, Tennessee accomplished exactly what it was supposed to do.

It's supposed to beat Syracuse pretty handily, and it did just that.

The good, the bad, the ugly.

More reaction here on a Monday morning, Locked on Balls.

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Good Monday morning, everybody. Welcome into Locked On Vols. I'm your host, Eric Kane.

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We're a part of the Lockdown Podcast Network where it is your team every single day. Happy Labor Day, everybody. Hope your holidays treating you well. It's football season is officially off and running. We had games on Thursday night on Friday night on Saturday. Of course, headline here on this show, Tennessee football was in action on Saturday. We had games on Sunday.

It is truly the best time of the year. And this show is going to be a good one to recap and everything that was Tennessee and Syracuse here on a Monday lockdown vaults. This episode is brought to you apart by our friends over at Game Time, where you can download the GameTime app, create an account, put in the promo code Lockdown College for $20 off your first purchase. again, thanks to our friends over at game time.

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Tennessee wins over Syracuse 45 to 26.

I'm going to give you my positives from the game, some mistakes and some reasons for concerns.

But overall thoughts on the football game here in segment number one.

We're going to recap the scoring plays, how they came to be in segment number two,

and then we'll look at some stats and some caner grades coming up in segment number three.

All that and more again here on your Monday, Lockdown Balls. Don't forget Twitter Tuesday coming up tomorrow, send in those questions.

Comments, concerns, any questions you guys have from week one of Tennessee football, please.

Let me hear them.

I'd underscore Caner and at Lockdown Balls, we would love to answer your questions here on the show tomorrow. All right. So, again, I know that there's always going to be some people that predict, you know, an upset. I know there's going to be some people that are going to really talk up the opponent whenever they're doing a segment on any team, Tennessee specifically or whatever. But for the overwhelming

majority, there's one national rata that was at the game on a Saturday. I just could not

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