Tennessee-Kentucky preview: Can the Vols get back on track in Lexington?

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🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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GoVols247's Patrick Brown and Ryan Callahan get you ready for Tennessee's game at Kentucky with a preview of the matchup between the Vols and Wildcats in Lexington. First we react to the first availability report of the week, which included Tennessee leading tackler Arion Carter? Why is the linebacker on the injury report and what are his chances of playing? Who would need to step up if Carter is sidelined this week? Then we discussed Kelsey Pope's comments about Tennessee's top wide receiver trio playing so many snaps, Josh Heupel saying the Vols will continue to rotate on their offensive line and the play of the red-hot DeSean Bishop. Finally we previewed the matchup with Kentucky. The Wildcats are just 2-4 and winless in SEC play and Mark Stoops is on the hot seat, but they just took Texas to overtime (and should have won the game) and earlier played Ole Miss tough in another home game. Why should Tennessee be concerned and confident? Patrick admitted is he down on the Vols, but not out. Should he be? Ryan gave his take on a maddening Tennessee team that has talent, spirit and a certain relentlessness about it, but is also so mistake-prone. 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 Balls 24-7 podcast. I'm Patrick Brown. I'll be hosting this episode. I'm joined by Ron Callahan. This will be a football episode. So if you're looking for the Tony Vitello discussion with Ben McKee, That will be in a different episode. I believe he should
0:22.1	have one out on the on the streams or all the places you get podcasts here. imminently, possibly
0:28.3	even before this one, but don't, don't pick one. Listen to both. We appreciate, we would appreciate
0:34.3	that. So I hope you guys are having a good week. It's obviously been an unusual week for Tennessee fans.
0:40.9	Ryan, after the, you know, Saturday we were getting some lunch in Birmingham before
0:46.7	heading to Tuscaloosa.
0:47.7	And that's when I think it was the athletic first reported that Tony Vitello might be the new
0:51.6	manager or might be becoming the new manager of the San Francisco Giants.
0:55.0	And then certainly there were a few days of limbo there where Tennessee fans were hoping their national championship baseball coach would not be leaving.
1:03.2	He is.
1:04.0	Tennessee ended up losing Alabama that night.
1:05.6	So not a great day for Tennessee fans.
1:07.6	But things are moving forward in Tennessee this week.
1:11.4	The football program, which we'll be focusing on in this episode, is getting ready to
1:14.6	play Kentucky.
1:15.4	Ryan, how have you handled this week of tumult here on Rocky Top?
1:19.8	Yeah, it's not too often you see baseball stealing the show from football in mid to late
1:24.1	October, but here we are.
1:25.6	That shows, I mean, quite a compliment to what Tony Bitello had done with the program
1:30.1	to have that be the case.
1:31.6	But, yeah, been an interesting week for sure.
1:34.6	And to see Tennessee at this weird spot with the football program too right now,
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