Tennessee's ability to run the football is going to be the difference in a win and a loss at Mississippi State.

You are locked on balls, your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers, part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. Good Friday morning, everybody. Welcome into it. I am Eric Kane, your host here of Locked-on Balls. Every single morning, when you wake up, weekday morning, when you wake up free and available, wherever you get your podcast. And, of course, after the Tennessee football games as well this week, maybe it'll be a little bit tough because I'll be on the road at the game covering the game. But yeah, looking forward to it. Tennessee and Mississippi State. Just one more sleep. And then it'll be football time in Mississippi for the volunteers and the Cowboys and the Bulldogs. About saying Cowboys. No, I bet not Cowboys. You probably thought that. I'm about saying cowbells, right?

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moved. Okay, so looking forward to all that, and let's stop into it, man.

And we've been talking Mississippi State really all weekend long. We talked about the road issues.

I'll talk to boogie about it here in a little bit as well, and the road record and how it's

just incredibly tough in general, not just for Tennessee, but in general, not named Alabama and

Georgia over the last 10, 15 years to win on the road in this league.

Mississippi State's mass capacity is not what it is in Death Valley, not what it is in Knoxville, not what it is in the swamp, not what it is in Tuscaloosa.

But it's going to be loud.

It's going to be a fun environment.

And I can't wait to be there.

Open air press box, one of the last

good viewing opportunities for media. Again, an open air press box, we just don't have those

anymore. And I know if you're sitting here watching and listening, you're like, dude, Kainer,

who cares, right? I care. I care because that's how it, that's how God intended for people

like me to cover football games.

Open air press boxes.

So I'm really, really looking forward to that.

But I'm excited to hear those Calabels.

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