Hoosier bowl opponent?
GoVols247: A Tennessee Volunteers athletics podcast
247Sports, Tennessee, Tennessee Volunteers, Tennessee Football, Tennessee athletics, Football, Colle
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🗓️ 9 December 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
GoVols247’s Wes Rucker (from Fort Rucker Studio) and Patrick Brown (from his house across town) convened via the magic of Al Gore’s Internets to discuss the Vols, the Hoosiers and the Gator Bowl.
A weekend full of speculation ended with Tennessee accepting a bid to the Gator Bowl, so the Vols will play Indiana on Jan. 2 at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville.
The first segment of this episode is focused on the process that led Tennessee to its Gator Bowl bid, rather than a bid in the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl in nearby Nashville. There were compelling reasons for Tennessee to prefer both places, so there’s plenty of discussion on why the Vols ultimately insisted on Jacksonville rather than their own state capital.
The second segment of this episode is focused on Indiana football. The Hoosiers are historically a Big Ten doormat with just 11 bowl appearances and three bowl wins in their 121-year history, and they have to share a Big Ten West Division with juggernauts Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State and Michigan State, but they’ve gotten something going with third-year head coach (and Hugh Freeze protege) Tom Allen. They went 5-7 in each of Allen’s first two seasons but have jumped to 8-4 this season, with all four losses coming to ranked teams.
Indiana and Tennessee have campus separated by just a five-hours-and-change drive but have played only once — a 27-22 win for the Vols in 1988 — so there’s plenty to learn about the Hoosiers, and this podcast episode can be the first step in that process.
The next GoVols247 Podcast episode will be released Thursday morning, unless breaking news occurs before that point.
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| 0:00.0 | I. |
| 0:02.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:04.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:15.0 | Good morning, afternoon, evening. Bunch time, lunch time, |
| 0:18.0 | lunchtime, pack your gene shorts time. |
| 0:21.0 | You know what that means time. About time to go to Florida time. |
| 0:25.6 | Whatever time of day it is boys and girls it's the right time for the go vaults 24-7 |
| 0:30.5 | podcast West Rucker coming to you from Fort Rucker Studio |
| 0:33.2 | Patrick Brown coming to you from across the way from his home at his undisclosed location |
| 0:39.2 | in an undisclosed part of the world. Pat, do you own a pair of gene shorts for this post-season adventure? |
| 0:49.0 | Well, that's really really unfortunate you say you didn't own them? |
| 0:57.0 | No I don't know any gene shorts no. |
| 1:00.0 | Hmm. |
| 1:01.0 | Could we are there do you any, perhaps any blue jeans that you, you know, like you don't wear as much as you |
| 1:08.8 | used to, maybe your wife bought them for you for Christmas and you want to cut him off. |
| 1:12.8 | I'm not doing it. |
| 1:14.2 | Because homemade gene shorts are even better than just store-bought gene shorts. |
| 1:17.6 | And why are we talking about gene shorts? |
| 1:20.0 | That's because Tennessee is going to the gene short Tor Capital of the World Jacksonville, Florida to play its |
| 1:26.4 | ball game. |
| 1:27.4 | The balls will be playing in the Tax Slayer Gator Bowl on January 2nd. |
| 1:32.2 | I believe that's a 7 p.m. Eastern kickoff on |
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