They say they're not the same unit that last took the field in an embarrassing loss to Kentucky last November.

The once youthful Vols say they've come a long ways since dropping the nation's longest winning streak over an opponent.

But, that game, that 10-7 loss that signaled Tennessee's second losing season in a row; that game that snapped the Vols 26-game winning streak against the Wildcats and had the proud Vol Nation wondering if Derek Dooley was the right man to lead his team out of the proverbial Dark Ages that has been the last several years of Tennessee football; that game may have been more than just a game according to Tennessee's player representatives in Hoover, Ala., last week at SEC Media Days.


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