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Vols convincingly end Swamp skid: ‘We dominated the whole game’

Tennessee Athletics photo / Tennessee redshirt sophomore running back DeSean Bishop vaults into the end zone during the first quarter of Saturday night's game at Florida.
Tennessee Athletics photo / Tennessee redshirt sophomore running back DeSean Bishop vaults into the end zone during the first quarter of Saturday night's game at Florida. Tennessee Athletics photo / Tennessee redshirt sophomore running back DeSean Bishop vaults into the end zone during the first quarter of Saturday night's game at Florida.

By David Paschall 6 min read

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Tennessee picked the perfect location to play its most complete football game of the season.

Florida’s Ben Hill Griffin Stadium has been a house of horrors for the Volunteers, but they produced the terror Saturday night in taking a 31-0 halftime lead and clobbering the Gators 31-11 to snap their 10-game losing streak at a venue more commonly known as the Swamp. The No. 20 Vols improved to 8-3 overall and to 4-3 in Southeastern Conference contests heading into next weekend’s showdown against No. 12 Vanderbilt (9-2, 5-2) inside Neyland Stadium.

The Gators, meanwhile, dropped to 3-8 overall in their disaster of a season and completed SEC play at 2-6.

“We had a great week of preparation and practice, and everybody was dialed in,” Tennessee graduate transfer quarterback Joey Aguilar said. “We wanted to make a statement. We hadn’t won here in a while, but this team hasn’t played here.

“We went out there and played as a team, and we dominated the whole game.”