HEARTBREAK: Tennessee Falls to Illinois in Music City Bowl on WALK OFF Field Goal from David Olano

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🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Again? Tennessee football falls in heartbreaking fashion in the Music City Bowl, 30-28 to Illinois on a walk off field goal by Illini kicker David Olano. That’s now the third loss in this bowl game by a combined eight points for the Volunteers. Tennessee’s defense faltered in the second half, the offense was a shell of itself and another crushing turnover and missed field goal proved to be costly. What went wrong for quarterback Joey Aguilar and Josh Heupel on offense? What happens now for the program with assistant coaches and the transfer portal opening on Friday? Eric Cain reacts to it all on this Wednesday edition of Locked on Vols.

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0:00.0	I don't think Tennessee should ever come back and play in this bowl game because the volunteers are obviously cursed here in Nashville.
0:11.1	You are locked on balls, your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers, part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:20.9	What is up, everybody?
0:21.7	Welcome into it, your Wednesday morning locked-on balls.
0:24.3	I'm your host, Eric Kane, a member of the vaulkwest.com team here in town covering your Tennessee
0:28.0	volunteers.
0:29.4	Tennessee Falls in the Music City Bowl, 30 to 28, the final score.
0:33.5	And recording this Wednesday podcast here late on Tuesday night.
0:39.6	Man, frustrating.
0:41.0	A lot of the same mistakes.
0:44.6	Can't say that you're too shocked at the outcome because it's kind of been that year.
0:49.3	But we're going to go over the course of that here in the next 20, 30 minutes or so right here on lockdown balls.
0:51.7	Matt Ray is going to join me, kind of get his thoughts on the game.
0:55.9	Some statistical breakdowns and the significance of this year, your number five of Josh Heiple and how you had some highs, but you had a lot of lows
1:00.8	as well. And what were wrong in this football game, all that and more coming up right here on a Wednesday
1:04.9	lockdown balls that today's episode is presented by the great people over Vandal Sportsbook,
1:09.0	but where before tip off, check
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1:15.0	That's every Friday, every Friday from 6 and 7.30 p.m. Eastern Time.
1:18.8	That is NBA happy hour.
1:21.4	All right.
1:21.7	So it started off well for Tennessee, right?
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