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🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Eric Cain breaks down the Tennessee Volunteers' heartbreaking overtime loss against Georgia, highlighting Chris Brazzell’s game-changing plays and the team's evolving offensive strategy. The discussion covers Joey Aguilar's clutch performance, the impact of recent defensive improvements, and how Josh Heupel's tactics are reshaping the college football landscape. Guest analyst Josh Ward offers insider perspectives on Tennessee's playoff chances and potential challenges against upcoming SEC rivals, despite the loss. Key topics include the Volunteers' path to success, ESPN's updated matchup predictor – which still loves Tennessee - and NFL draft prospects for standout players like Brazzell. Don't miss this in-depth analysis of Tennessee's journey to the top of the SEC. Tune in to hear why the Vols' future looks brighter than ever after their statement in a loss to Georgia.

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0:00.0	Tennessee might have lost to Georgia, but ESPN's matchup predictor still loves the
0:04.7	Valls.
0:10.8	You are Locked on Balls, your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers, part of the Locked
0:17.2	on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:20.6	Hey everybody, happy Wednesday morning and welcome in to it. This is Locked onon Podcast Network, your team every day. Hey, everybody. Happy Wednesday morning and welcome into it. This is Locked-on Valls, your number one spot for Tennessee Football News and Entertainment, weekday mornings when you wake up, and after football games on Saturday evenings, I appreciate you guys for being here making Locked-on Valls as a part of your morning routine, your first listen, your first watch, each every single day, free and get your podcast you guys know this today's episode is brought you par by our friends over at fendhal sportsbook right now new customers come at just five dollars and if you're a bet when you'll get three hundred dollars in bonus bets to use across the app you can download the app today i am your host ericane a member of the the ballquist dot com team here town covering your Tennessee Volunteers. Today's episode, it's going to be a fun one. It's going to be a fun one for sure. I have the wrong. If you're watching on YouTube right now, I'm going to do some live editing right here in the show. I've got the wrong background on because Josh Ward's coming up at the segment number three.
1:11.0	That's a good way to kind of transition that.
1:12.9	Josh Ward, second number three, Ward Wednesday.
1:14.6	Here we go.
1:15.6	ESPN's updated matchup predictor.
1:18.0	See how those percentages change following the loss to Georgia.
1:21.2	Some of them go down, but still Tennessee's favorite to win all but one more game left
1:26.0	on the schedule.
1:29.2	Chris Brasel, could he be the next Jalen Hyatt? Boy, Todd McShay, loving some Chris Brasel CB2 right now as he put out on
1:36.5	social media the other day. All that and more coming up here on a Wednesday show. All right, so
1:40.6	ESPN's matchup predictor has changed. The volunteers lost to Georgia in overtime, 44 to 41.
1:49.2	But as we talked about on yesterday's show, as I'll ask Josh Ward here coming up in second
1:53.5	number three, do you feel better or do you feel worse about Tennessee than you did
1:59.7	Saturday morning?
2:00.6	Since the end of the game, do you feel better
2:01.9	or worse? For me, I feel better. Like, I know some of the limitations defensively right now. I know
2:06.3	they got to get healthy. And Josh brings this up into the last point we make on the show, and I think
2:11.6	it's the most important point. Like, the quarterback, that question answered and then some.
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