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Mark Wiedmer


Wiedmer: This is one November the Big Orange Nation should remember forever

Being bowl eligible for the first time in three years is clearly a step in the right direction for University of Tennessee football. Clinching that reward with Saturday night's 24-20 victory at Missouri likely does more than send the Big Orange Nation to Florida for New Year's Day, where UT's massive fan base surely will add to the Volunteers' attractiveness to wind up in either the Outback Bowl in Tampa on Jan. 1 or the TaxSlayer Bowl in Jacksonville a day later.

Staff photo by C.B. Schmelter / Tennessee fans stand during the national anthem before the Orange and White spring football game on April 13 Neyland Stadium.