NASHVILLE – Tennessee’s last two bowl trips included chartered plane flights to sunny Florida.
This one required a bus ride of nearly three hours to the same city where the Volunteers played their last football game roughly one month ago.
Butch Jones congraulates his players after a late field goal in the frist half. The Florida Gators visited the Tennessee Volunteers in a important SEC football contest at Neyland Stadium on September 24, 2016.After its final practice in Knoxville for the season, Tennessee arrived at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville on Monday afternoon for Friday’s Music City Bowl clash with Nebraska.
“We’re coming here to win the football game, and that’s what we talked about,” coach Butch Jones said. “It’s a reward for our seniors. There’s a lot of great things that come with playing in this bowl game, but the bottom line is to come here and know how to manage your time and to win the football game.”
After returning from a brief break, the Vols returned Saturday to begin game-week preparation, and they’re scheduled to practice today at Montgomery Bell Academy just down the road from Vanderbilt’s campus, where Nebraska began practice Monday and where Tennessee ended the regular season with a humiliating defeat.