No. 18 Tennessee (4-1, 1-1 SEC) has an open date in Week 6.
Third-year head coach Josh Heupel met with media on Wednesday and discussed Tennessee’s off week.
“Bye week is important for us, one, to get healthy, and two, to continue to get better,” Heupel said. “We have a lot of guys inside our program, particularly the younger guys, that have to continue to develop and get better. Good teams get better throughout the season. We had a good day of work out on the grass today with the guys, and we will have another one tomorrow.
“At the end of the week, a bunch of coaches will be all over the country. I think we are hitting close to 12 states as we get out on Thursday and Friday. That will be the backend of the week for our staff, and is obviously life blood of this program, so a huge part of the week on the backend as well for our staff.”
Everything Heupel said during his press conference is listed below.