No. 10 Tennessee (5-1, 1-1 SEC) will host No. 7 Alabama (5-1, 2-1 SEC) in Week 8 at Neyland Stadium.
Fourth-year Tennessee head coach Josh Heupel met with media on Monday to kick off game week.
Heupel confirmed Tennessee redshirt senior linebacker Keenan Pili suffered an ACL injury last week against Florida and will be out for the remainder of the season.
The 6-foot-3, 240-pound linebacker appeared in six contests for the Vols in 2024. He recorded 29 tackles and 1.5 tackles for a loss.
Pili appeared in one game last season for Tennessee after transferring from BYU. He recorded four tackles and played 29 snaps in the Vols’ 2023 season-opening win versus Virginia. Pili suffered an upper-body injury and missed the remainder of last season.
He played at BYU from 2019-22. Pili appeared in 36 games for the Cougars, recording 190 tackles, 11 tackles for a loss, three sacks, two fumble recoveries, one forced fumble, four pass break-ups and two quarterback hurries.
He redshirted as a true freshman in 2016 at BYU before serving a full-time mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Orlando, Florida from 2017-19.
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