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Locked On Vols - Daily Podcast On Tennessee Volunteers Football & Basketball

FACT or FICTION: Tennessee Football, Josh Heupel can Win with BOTH Joey Aguilar or Jake Merklinger

Locked On Vols - Daily Podcast On Tennessee Volunteers Football & Basketball

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🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Can Tennessee win big without a superstar quarterback? Eric Cain breaks down the Volunteers' potential for success, highlighting their potent ground game and improved defense. The host dissects recent SEC quarterback rankings, questioning Joey Aguilar's low placement despite his impressive stats at Appalachian State. Dive into predictions for Tennessee's conference standing and explore Eli Drinkwitz's bold proposal for a 30-team college football playoff. Get ready for an in-depth look at the Vols' upcoming season and the changing landscape of SEC football. Tune in for expert analysis on Tennessee's quarterback situation and their chances of making a deep playoff run in 2025.

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Fact or fiction. Tennessee football can win in 2025, regardless of who's at quarterback.

0:06.1

It's fact. And I'll tell you why here on a Friday lockdown balls.

0:14.7

You are locked on balls. Your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers.

0:20.0

Part of the Locked on podcast Network, your team every day.

0:24.4

Hey, good Friday morning, everybody. Welcome into Lockdown Falls. I'm your host, Eric Kaine.

0:28.3

I appreciate you guys for being here making Lockdown Balls your first listen, your first watch, each and every single morning.

0:33.4

We are a part of the Lockdown Podcast Network. Where did your team every single day?

0:55.8

Free and available, wherever you get your podcast every day, or's couldn't do it without you. Thank you so much. Got a fun show coming up here today and it's presented by our friends over Monarch Money where you can take control of your finances with Monarch Money by using the promo code Lockdown College at MonarchMoney.com for 50% off your first year. Again, monarchmoney.com. great deal over there at Monarch Money. Factor fiction. CBS Sports put out an article after Tuesday at the SEC Media Days, all four of those

1:01.4

teams. It was Georgia, Texas, Auburn, Tennessee. Fact or fiction from something at the podium

1:06.4

that the head coach has said. And the one for Tennessee was, Tennessee can win regardless of who's a quarterback.

1:14.7

And they're drawing that off of what John Heppel said, saying, hey, we've been successful

1:18.5

with a number of different types of quarterbacks, different styles of quarterback play.

1:22.9

And we'll tell you what CBS Sports thinks on that.

1:25.0

If that is fact or fiction, I'm going to tell you it's fact right now, and I'll tell you why here in a matter of moments. SEC quarterback rankings, they're coming out in droves this week, of course, ahead of the SEC Spring or excuse me, the SEC Media Days predicted order of finish. That's coming up later today. Also, the all-Sec teams that are come up later today. We've got SEC quarterback

1:44.8

rankings from USA Today, The Athletics, CBS Sports, not very high on Joey Aguilar. So we'll kind of

1:50.4

get in that topic and kind of break that down ahead of the all SEC teams coming out later today.

1:56.0

And then in segment number three, man, Eli Dreikwitz doing Eli Dreikwitz things.

2:01.4

I'm not the biggest Eli Dreiklitz fan, but I will say he provided something of notes of SEC media days on Thursday.

2:10.6

And thankfully, because it's been pretty boring this week.

2:13.7

All that and more coming up here on today's show.

2:16.0

All right.

2:16.5

So we got SEC predicted order of finish. That's coming up later today. Those will be announced. We'll have those write-ups. Of course, we'll recap it all on it right here on Lockdown Balls on a Monday show. I said on yesterday's show, I believe that I anticipate Tennessee being voted 8, 9, 10, something like that. I had a guy comment on the show yesterday on YouTube saying,

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