KNOXVILLE – The Tennessee football Volunteers followed the underdog script nearly perfectly for nearly half of Saturday’s game against seventh-ranked Oregon.
But in their present shape, they needed to follow that script perfectly for 60 minutes to beat a Pac-10 powerhouse like the Ducks. And they definitely didn’t do that.
Oregon scored the final 45 points of its 48-13 win.
As the Ducks downed the ball near midfield in the final minute, the green and yellow contingent was nearly all that remained of a once-raucous, 102,035 crowd in Neyland Stadium.
The fast-paced Ducks (2-0) took a toll on the thin Vols (1-1).