No. 6 Tennessee (10-2, 6-2 SEC) will play No. 7 Clemson (11-2, 8-0 ACC) in the Capital One Orange Bowl on Dec. 30.
Tennessee practiced Saturday at Haslam Field in preparation for the Capital One Orange Bowl.
Second-year head coach Josh Heupel met with media following practice.
“You guys saw today we also flipped the page and started some of our bowl prep,” Heupel said. “We got some good work in with our young guys in particular, up until this point our vets have started working back into things over the last three, four days. As we get through this week, we will kind of turn the page and head towards Clemson in our preparation. Clemson, obviously, a great football team and they have been doing it at a really high level for a long time. Defensively, one of the top teams in the country, extremely aggressive in what they do. They got great personnel offensively, a new quarterback that played in a dynamic way in their conference championship game, but great skill players out on the perimeter as well and a huge test, but a great opportunity for our football program at the end of the month, I’m excited about that.
“We have a bunch of mid-year enrollees you guys got a chance to see a little bit of today, as well. Excited to have them a part of our program in what’s going on, get this experience here, practices at home, but also a lot of them will be able to go to the bowl site as well. Excited for them, I’ll talk about those guys here when we get to signing day.”
Heupel’s continued bowl discussion is listed below from a transcript provided by the University of Tennessee.