The 2024 college football season came to an end for Tennessee (10-3, 6-2 SEC) on Saturday. The Vols were defeated by Ohio State (11-2, 7-2 Big Ten), 42-17.
The contest took place at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, during the first round of the College Football Playoff.
Fourth-year Tennessee coach Josh Heupel discussed the Vols’ season finale after the game.
“Just want to thank our fans,” Heupel said. “I don’t know what the actual number was that showed up, but there was a bunch of orange that decided to make the trip. Appreciate them. Disappointed for them. Disappointed for our team and everything that we have put into it since last January, that we didn’t coach and play better in this one early.
“There wasn’t a phase of the football game where we operated the way we needed to early in the game, and came back and made a couple plays at the end of the second quarter to tighten it up, and just didn’t function well enough the beginning of the third quarter, either. That’s a credit to them, but just didn’t do what you have to on the road in a game against a really good football team. Disappointed on all those accords. Talked to the players in the locker room, and everybody was disappointed, obviously, but there’s a lot of guys that played the last game in a Tennessee uniform that we’re really proud of, too. A lot of those guys have been with us since we started this journey, when I first got hired. Great leaders, great people, great players, and meant a lot to what we’ve built.”
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