Postgame Podcast: Making sense of Tennessee's damaging home loss to Oklahoma

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🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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GoVols247's Patrick Brown and Ryan Callahan break down Tennessee's 33-27 home loss to Oklahoma at Neyland Stadium on Saturday night. The Vols saw their College Football Playoff chances snuffed out with three games to go as Josh Heupel's team lost to Josh Heupel's alma mater. Tennessee could have been out of sight early, but a slew of mistakes on offense squandered multiple opportunities for early scores and separation on the scoreboard. A missed field goal and three turnovers represented a huge swing as the Sooners led at the break despite the Dark Mode having big advantages in yards, plays run, first downs and third-down conversions. Then the offense, defense and special teams took turns letting Tennessee down in the second half as Oklahoma took the lead in the third quarter and held off some late attempts at a rally with a fourth-down stop on a dropped pass looming large against the Vols. We discussed what went wrong and where the Vols go from here with their Playoff hopes done. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome into the Go-Law's 24-7 podcast.
0:08.5	I am Patrick Brown.
0:09.8	I'm joined by Ryan Callahan.
0:12.1	We're sitting in the visiting coach's booth at Neon Stadium here.
0:14.9	Late Saturday night, I don't know what time it is because the time is about to change anyway.
0:18.7	But time, it's not a good time for Tennessee football.
0:22.3	A disappointing home loss tonight, 3327 to Oklahoma in a game where Tennessee will look back
0:27.9	and can list, I don't know, Ryan, at least a dozen, a dozen, or a dozen, or Baker's
0:32.9	dozen, just self-inflicted mistakes.
0:36.9	The kind of plays that can get you beat.
0:39.8	And Tennessee got what it deserved.
0:41.2	I mean, Tennessee made enough plays to lose this game, and it is.
0:44.0	Absolutely.
0:44.8	It's one they'll obviously look back on and be able to point to a number of different things, as you said.
0:50.1	But, you know, I've seen everybody from Tim Banks to Max Gilbert to, you know, the offense, to Joey Aguilar, to everyone getting some blame.
1:00.7	And there's enough blame to go around.
1:02.0	But the bottom line is this game didn't come down to one play.
1:04.4	This came down to a bunch of mistakes.
1:07.0	And Tennessee just didn't execute as well as Oklahoma did for four quarters.
1:11.4	And, you know, it's kind of what we, what a lot of people were afraid this team's season
1:17.0	was going to come down to.
1:17.9	You know, it's not been a really sharply executing team for most of the season.
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