The stage is set. Tennessee will hit the road for the first round of the College Football Playoff, heading north to face the Ohio State Buckeyes. The two teams received the No. 6 and No. 7 rankings from the CFP committee, placing them as the No. 8 and No. 9 seeds in the bracket.
The winner will move on to Pasadena to face Oregon in the Rose Bowl.
Tennessee and Ohio State — two of college football’s biggest brands — have met exactly one time. The Volunteers beat the Buckeyes in the 1996 Citrus Bowl. Tennessee has never played a game inside the state of Ohio.