Tennessee safety Todd Kelly Jr. takes part in the Vols’ walk-through Wednesday at Nissan Stadium in Nashville.NASHVILLE – It’s been more than a month since Tennessee played a football game.
How the most recent game went has the Volunteers extremely eager to return to the field and establish a fresher, much more positive memory.
All month, Tennessee’s players have dispelled the notion they won’t be motivated or interested in the Music City Bowl against fellow former top-10 team Nebraska, and the tone hasn’t changed this week since the Vols arrived in Nashville.
“I definitely want to leave all the guys that are leaving this program, whether it’s seniors or guys that have put in a lot of time to this program, I think it’s important to send them off with a bang,” safety Todd Kelly Jr. said Wednesday before the team’s walk-through at Nissan Stadium, where the Vols (8-4) will face the No. 24 Cornhuskers (9-3) at 3:30 p.m. EST Friday.
“Getting this victory would be very important. But we’re not really trying to look from the past or toward the future. I think it’s just focusing on now, because we can’t change anything that happened. Using it as fuel, I think, is important, because the last time we were in Nashville we didn’t like the result that we had. Having the opportunity to come here again and play another ballgame is very important to this program and to our team, and we’ll do whatever we can to get this victory.”