SHOWDOWN: Blake Shapen & Joey Aguilar HIGHLIGHTS Tennessee Football and Mississippi State Battle

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS face crucial test against MISSISSIPPI STATE BULLDOGS. Can Joey Aguilar's deep-ball prowess overcome Blake Shapen's steady hand? Eric Cain breaks down the quarterback battle, team strategies, and injury impacts for this SEC showdown. The discussion covers Tennessee's potent running game, Mississippi State's improved defense, and historical context from Johnny Majors' 1954 debut on Throwback Thursday. Noah Taylor and Jaren Spor offer insider perspectives on both programs' strengths and weaknesses. Key topics include Tennessee's secondary concerns, Mississippi State's pass coverage, and betting predictions for this high-stakes matchup. Tune in for expert analysis on how injuries could reshape the game plan and potentially decide the outcome of this Tennessee-Mississippi State clash.

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0:00.0	It's Tennessee and Mississippi State. It's Joey Aguilar against Blake Shapen, who has the edge of quarterback.
0:11.9	You are locked on balls. Your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers, part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. What is up, everybody? Welcome into it. Your Thursday morning, Lockdown Falls. I am your host, Eric Kane, a member of the Valquest.com team here in town covering your Tennessee volunteers. And, of course, your host of Lockdown Falls. Weekday mornings when you get up, wherever you find your podcast, free and available. Again, wherever you find it every dayers could not do this show without you we are part of the locked on podcast network
0:41.5	where it is your team every single day this episode is brought you apart by our friends over at
0:46.0	mazda like our players we sweat every detail because when you make every move count pulling off the
0:50.6	unexpected is only the beginning stay tuned later for highlights in this week's moving the game forward,
0:56.0	Mazda where you move and you can be moved.
0:58.8	All right, we got a lot to discuss here today.
1:00.7	Throwback Thursday taking a look at the 1954 win over 10 over Mississippi State for the volunteers.
1:06.9	That's with Nealyn Press Corps coming up with Noah Taylor in segment number three.
1:11.0	Crossing it over with locked on Mississippi State in segment number two, get it here behind enemy lines a little bit.
1:18.4	The scout on the Mississippi State Bulldogs is coming up in segment number two.
1:22.0	But first, I want to take a look at the two quarterbacks, Joey Aguilar against Blake Shepin here in segment number one. On the
1:28.6	surface, Tennessee and Mississippi State have pretty good quarterbacks, right? You have
1:33.3	Joey Aguilar that is off to a phenomenal start to a Tennessee career. 12 touchdowns, three
1:40.2	interceptions, 1,124 passing yards, a 75.6 QBR. Pretty solid. You look at what Blake
1:49.5	Schapen has done from Mississippi State, his second year with Mississippi State, but of course
1:53.0	missed the last eight games in 2024 due to injury. And he's having a good year. Seven touchdowns,
1:58.6	two picks, 884 yards passing, a 64.2 QBR.
2:04.2	So pretty good numbers on the surface. You look at Joey Aguilar, he's third in the conference
2:09.7	in passing yards with 1,124. That's only second, or that's third behind Talen Green,
2:16.8	who's in second at 1,191
2:19.3	41 yards so almost 70 yards more
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