ESPN: Tennessee Football One of Six Contenders for SEC Title, College Football Playoff in 2025

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🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Eric Cain dissects ESPN's SEC football preview, spotlighting the Tennessee Volunteers' as one of six conference title contenders with 8.8 average wins in the SP+ rankings. The host analyzes Josh Heupel’s evolving strategy, potential defensive improvements, and offensive challenges. Cain highlights key players to watch in fall camp, including William Satterwhite, Chris Brazzell, and Lance Heard on offense, plus Andre Turrentine, Kaleb Beasley, and Jordan Ross on defense. With a thin receiving corps and quarterback questions looming, can Tennessee's defense carry the team in 2025? Tune in for expert insights on the Vols' path to SEC success and fall camp's most crucial position battles.

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0:00.0	Well, Tennessee feature the best defense of the Josh Highpole era, but also the worst offense in 2025.
0:07.4	It's what ESPN has to say.
0:08.9	Let's hope it's not the latter, but I like the former a lot.
0:12.9	That and so much more, it's Monday, Locked on Balls.
0:25.8	You are Locked on Balls, your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers,
0:30.4	part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:31.4	Hey, good Monday morning, everybody.
0:33.3	Welcome into Locked On Vols.
0:34.2	I'm your host, Eric Kane.
0:37.4	Happy to have you guys here with me today, getting your work week started with us,
0:57.6	your workday started with us here on Locked On a part of the lockdown podcast network where it is your team every single day. I'm your host, Eric Kane, also a member of the ballquest.com team. Happy to bring you coverage to Tennessee Athletics each and every single day. And today's episode is brought you in part by our friends over Monarch Money, where you can take control of your finances with monarch money use that promo code locked on college at monarch money.com for 50% off your first year again a shout out to monarch money fun show coming up today
1:03.7	interesting ESPN article it's an SEC preview essentially and they rank the the biggest contenders
1:09.9	for the SEC title and therefore
1:11.8	a spot in the college football playoff. And of the six they listed, Tennessee broke
1:17.6	through. Tennessee was number six. So we'll kind of recap that and discuss what ESPN likes. Bill
1:22.0	Conley, SP Plus, what they love about Tennessee. And an interesting quote interesting quote again the worst defense or the
1:27.8	best defense probably might be the worst offense we'll get into that here in second number one
1:32.8	seven is two and three with fall camp starting tomorrow with media day practice number one on
1:37.5	Wednesday I want to go through and give you three veterans that I'm watching closely on
1:41.6	offense and then three veterans that I'm watching closely on defense.
1:45.2	We guys that have a lot to prove heading into the regular season.
1:48.2	We looked at some freshmen last week as we're getting set for fall camp and we'll have the coverage for you every single day right here on locked on balls.
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