From Rock Bottom to Rocky Top: Is Tennessee Football Finally Back?

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🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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There may be no other team that embodies the chaotic nature of college football more than Tennessee. The Volunteers have seemingly cycled through various head coaches since ousting the architect of their 90’s glory years, Phillip Fulmer, in 2008…and have done so with very little success. Lane Kiffin infamously left the program in flames after one year at the helm. Derek Dooley, Butch Jones, and Jeremy Pruitt spent the rest of the decade in a revolving door of coaches, each one being no less mediocre than the last. But finally, it looks like the right guy is in charge at Rocky Top. Josh Heupel has the Vols sitting at No. 2 in the nation after knocking off Alabama, and they have a meeting with No. 1 ranked Georgia this weekend. So ahead of that clash of top teams, and as this year’s first College Football Playoff rankings are released, we sit down with Ryan McGee…and he tells us how his beloved Tennessee is finally revitalized. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, Ryan McGee, I've been, I've been waiting to talk to you about your alma mater for just
0:05.6	a couple of weeks now.
0:06.7	So thank you for, thank you for volunteering as tribute as it were.
0:11.0	That was fantastic, by the way.
0:12.8	And yeah, I think I finally have the, the cigar smoke fumigated out of my clothes from a
0:17.3	couple of weeks ago.
0:18.3	Yeah, I mean, should we start with a couple of weeks ago because so much has happened,
0:21.7	right?
0:22.7	I mean, truly like five ranked teams have just been felled by the University of Tennessee.
0:27.1	You guys just be Kentucky this past weekend, but you were there.
0:31.1	You were there for what?
0:32.3	The greatest scene of the college football season by far.
0:36.3	The most anticipated game in these parts in three decades and it's come down to two
0:48.7	seconds, 15 years of losses for the Crimson Tide for the Tennessee volunteers.
0:56.0	College football is built on passion.
0:58.0	That's why we love it.
0:59.4	That's why I think it's the greatest sport in the world.
1:01.8	But I also have to work.
1:05.1	And so you check, I learned this from my father who was a college football official for
1:08.4	40 years.
1:09.4	You check it at the door, right?
1:10.4	And you go into the press box or you go wherever you're going to work the game.
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