The Tennessee Volunteers won’t be playing in the SEC Championship Game. Still, based on where the Volunteers stand in the rankings and how teams around them stack up, it’s pretty clear that head coach Josh Heupel has likely secured a spot in the College Football Playoff for Tennessee.
With that spot largely secured, Heupel shared what it meant to get Tennessee to this place where they’re competing for a national championship.
It’s the next step for us as a program,” Josh Heupel said. “And when I say that, you look at what we’ve been able to do since I’ve been here, especially the last three years including this one. There’s an expectation from our staff and our players. It was a goal, but there was an expectation to be in this.”
Tennessee finished the regular season 10-2 and 6-2 in SEC play. That was third in the conference, coming in behind Georgia on the back of their head-to-head loss to the Bulldogs. Still, the Volunteers are seventh in the latest rankings. That’s high enough up in the rankings that the Volunteers should feel fairly safe. In fact, if the Playoff began with these rankings and without the context of the conference championship games, the Volunteers would be the nine-seed, going on the road in the first round.
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