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Tennessee-Florida week! Vols-Gators preview, recruiting rankings and injury latest Nov 20, 2025

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GoVols247's Patrick Brown and Ryan Callahan are here on Thursday of Florida week to preview the matchup between the Vols and Gators in The Swamp on Saturday night. We also put a bow on Boo Carter's dismissal, discuss Tennessee's injury situation with the latest on Miles Kitselman, Peyton Lewis, Wendell Moe Jr. and Arion Carter and get Ryan's take on the Top247 updates involving Tennessee's commitments, including five-star QB Faizon Brandon

Postgame Podcast: Tennessee beats New Mexico State on Homecoming Nov 16, 2025

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GoVols247's Postgame Podcast after Tennessee's 42-9 win against New Mexico State discusses the Vols winning easily on Homecoming.

Patrick Brown and Ryan Callahan discuss Tennessee's defense coming up with timely stops and turnovers and the play of Ty Redmond, Daevin Hobbs, Jadon Perlotte and others as the Vols held the visiting Aggies to nine points and one touchdown.

We also addressed the latest with defensive back Boo Carter, why he wasn't at the game at all and his standing with the program.

Tennessee's offense had some ups and downs from a 99-yard touchdown drive to two straight scores in the third quarter to a poor end to the first half and two more Joey Aguilar interceptions.

All of that and more on the postgame podcast from Neyland Stadium!

Diamond Vols Podcast: Quentin Eberhardt leaving for San Francisco Giants, Vols name new strength coach Nov 14, 2025

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GoVols247's Ben McKee reacts to Quentin Eberhardt's departure for the San Francisco Giants, as well as Tennessee baseball hiring Keegan Knoll as its new strength coach.

Mailbag Time! Answering your questions on Tennessee football, hoops, & baseball ... and holidays Nov 12, 2025

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It's New Mexico State week for the Tennessee football program, so GoVols247 decided to have a mailbag podcast -- and this one was an occasion.

For the first time in, well, a long time, all three of us (Patrick Brown, Ben McKee and Ryan Callahan) came together for an episode, and we wanted to answer questions from our loyal GoVols247 subscribers hitting on all three Tennessee sports:

Football -- How do we think Tennessee closes out the regular season? What staff changes should Josh Heupel make and what positions should the Vols prioritize in the transfer portal? What players need to make a leap in 2026? How will this season be remembered if Tennessee wins out? Where will Tennessee's 2026 recruiting class finish in the rankings?

Hoops -- What will Rick Barnes do with the starting five?

Baseball -- How will Josh Elander's first season in charge of the Vols look like and what will the pitching rotation be?

We got some holiday questions as well and shared our favorite things and our rules for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Enjoy!

Bye week big-picture discussion on the state of Tennessee football and the Josh Heupel discourse Nov 07, 2025

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There's no game for Tennessee football on Saturday, but it's still been quite the week for the program with the Vols facing the reality of being out of College Football Playoff contention after the loss to Oklahoma.

GoVols247's Ben McKee and Patrick Brown came together for a big-picture discussion on the state of Tennessee football coming off its third loss of the season and the discourse surrounding head coach Josh Heupel.

This week has seen the discourse on Heupel and the Vols range from frustration and anger to comments from former players denigrating Heupel's outlook on Rocky Top. Then you have Kirk Herbstreit calling out Tennessee fans who want Heupel gone (there aren't many, but there are some) and saying the Vols need to lock him down for the long term. As if that wasn't enough, one national columnist thinks Heupel should leave Tennessee and go to Penn State.

What do make of all of that? More importantly, what does Tennessee need to do over its final three games to salvage this season? And what changes do Heupel and the Vols need to make in the offseason to maintain their success and get over the hump to true championship contention?

We discuss it all.

GoVols247 Podcast: Tennessee receives pair of commitments during busy recruiting weekend Nov 03, 2025

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GoVols247's Ryan Callahan and Ben McKee react to 2026 tight end Luca Wolf and 2027 offensive lineman Princeton Uwaifo committing to Tennessee football over the weekend. They also discuss several other storylines from a busy weekend for the Vols on the recruiting trail.

Postgame Podcast: Making sense of Tennessee's damaging home loss to Oklahoma Nov 02, 2025

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GoVols247's Patrick Brown and Ryan Callahan break down Tennessee's 33-27 home loss to Oklahoma at Neyland Stadium on Saturday night.

The Vols saw their College Football Playoff chances snuffed out with three games to go as Josh Heupel's team lost to Josh Heupel's alma mater. Tennessee could have been out of sight early, but a slew of mistakes on offense squandered multiple opportunities for early scores and separation on the scoreboard. A missed field goal and three turnovers represented a huge swing as the Sooners led at the break despite the Dark Mode having big advantages in yards, plays run, first downs and third-down conversions.

Then the offense, defense and special teams took turns letting Tennessee down in the second half as Oklahoma took the lead in the third quarter and held off some late attempts at a rally with a fourth-down stop on a dropped pass looming large against the Vols.

We discussed what went wrong and where the Vols go from here with their Playoff hopes done.

Tennessee-Oklahoma Preview: Can Vols prevail against Sooners in College Football Playoff elimination game? Oct 30, 2025

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GoVols247's Patrick Brown and Ryan Callahan preview Tennessee's crunch matchup with Oklahoma at Neyland Stadium on Saturday night.

First we recap the first SEC availability report with the latest injury updates on Colton Hood, Arion Carter and Jermod McCoy.

Then we discuss the state of Tennessee's defense and why the Vols have regressed so far this season? We look at the numbers that have dropped off from last season and try to pinpoint a reason why Tennessee has struggled. Can the defense be fixed in-season?

Next, we looked at the matchup with the Sooners, who have lost two of their past three games. Oklahoma is led by an elite defense, but one that gave up a lot of yards and points to Ole Miss last week. And what do we make of QB John Mateer's recent struggles?

Finally we touched on some Tennessee recruiting news, including a recent decommitment and the visitors to know on a big recruiting weekend.

Postgame Podcast: The good and bad of Tennessee's win at Kentucky Oct 26, 2025

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GoVols247's Patrick Brown and Ryan Callahan recap Tennessee's 56-34 win at Kentucky from the Kentucky radio booth at Kroger Field in Lexington.

Joey Aguilar and his wide receivers lit up the Wildcats on an explosive night for the passing game, but it was another struggle for the defense.

We break down the good and bad from another win against Kentucky and look at the big picture for the Vols.

Diamond Vols Podcast: Josh Elander is named Tennessee baseball's next head coach Oct 26, 2025

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GoVols247's Ben McKee is joined by former Tennessee baseball players Jared Dickey and Will Heflin to react to Danny White's decision to name Josh Elander the Vols' next head coach.

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