The big question coming into this game was how much of a fight Tennessee would show now that they have finally fired Butch Jones. Teams can often get a motivational bounce the week after they get rid of an unpopular head coach, though that theory did not play out for Florida.*
*Ed. Note: I know Florida isn’t at all relevant to this game, and there’s no logical reason to bring the Gators up in the postgame recap, particularly in the lede, but Florida getting their doors blown off is never not funny.
The Vols came out of the gate fired up and intense.