WOW: Reacting to the Good & Bad of 2025 Tennessee Football, Josh Heupel & Joey Aguilar HIGHLIGHTS

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🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS face a harsh reality check after falling to Oklahoma, eliminating their College Football Playoff hopes. Can Josh Heupel keep his team motivated with three games remaining? Eric Cain and Boogie Bentley break down the frustrating loss where Tennessee's defense finally showed up but the offense squandered opportunities with three costly turnovers. The discussion highlights Joey Aguilar's remarkable season leading the SEC in passing yards and touchdowns despite hardly any national recognition, the uncertain status of injured star Jermod McCoy, and whether Tennessee's secondary could have been elite if Rickey Gibson had stayed healthy and Boo Carter was on point. Boogie offers perspective on Aguilar's underappreciated performance compared to Vanderbilt's Diego Pavia, while both hosts revisit their hilariously wrong pre-season player draft predictions derailed by injuries. Key topics include Tennessee Volunteers' defensive improvements against Oklahoma, upcoming challenges against Florida and Vanderbilt, and the complex roster management decisions facing Heupel in the modern NIL era. Tune in for this candid analysis of Tennessee's season trajectory and what comes next for the Volunteers.

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0:00.0	The good, the bad, the ugly from Tennessee football so far this year.
0:03.1	We spin the wheel of content here on a fun Friday, Lockdown Balls.
0:13.4	You are Locked on Balls, your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers.
0:18.5	Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:22.9	What is up, everybody?
0:23.8	Welcome into it your Friday morning.
0:26.4	Locked-on Falls.
0:27.4	I am your host, Eric Kane, a member of the VaultQuest.com team here in town covering your Tennessee
0:31.7	volunteers.
0:32.4	Appreciate you guys for being here.
0:34.1	Mega Lockdown is your first listen, your first watch each year every single morning.
0:37.3	We're a part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, where it is your team every single day. We are free and available wherever. Literally wherever you can find a podcast, we are there. This is Locked On Balls. Got a fun show. Boogie Bentley is going to join me for the entirety of a Friday show. We're going to look back a little bit, Oklahoma, talk about the improved defense that we saw.
1:11.4	Joey Aguilar, the bad from that game, but the great season that he's having. The national storyline is not making more of a deal out of it. We're going to revisit something that we did over the summer that we're going to laugh about that's going to be hilarious. A 30-minute conversation where we're all over the map, and those are the best types of shows, in my opinion. So stay tuned. Boogie Bentley's
1:16.5	coming up, starting right now. We're all over the map talking Tennessee football right here
1:20.9	on a lock on talking balls Friday morning. Buggy Bentley, it has been, yeah, it's been a week,
1:27.3	to say the least, Friday morning and
1:29.9	a couple of days separating us from the loss on Saturday night, but this has been kind of what
1:35.7	you expect, a lot of frustration, a lot of apathy at times this week, and more frustrations,
1:42.9	because again, Tennessee's pretty much knocked out of the
1:44.8	CFP. I know Tennessee was ranked 25th, but I mean, you know, you've got to move mountains
1:48.8	and everything for Tennessee to make the field now. So overall, how has your week been from a
1:53.7	content creative perspective and, you know, your thoughts since Tennessee's lost to Oklahoma?
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