There's no denying that this is a strange week around the Tennessee football program. Preparing for a game minus the head coach that's lead your team for the past three seasons will have that kind of effect. Trying to push that rather large distraction to the periphery could be easier said than done, but it's a task the Vols must handle this week if they're going to avoid a second straight season-ending loss to Kentucky.

Things are bad right now, with an 0-7 SEC record, that goes without saying. But rock-bottom would be an 0-8 run through the league punctuated by a season sweep from the 'Dores and Wildcats.

No matter who the head coach is on the sidelines, no Tennessee player wants that on his resume´.

"We don't want that outcome again. That was embarrassing last year, how we played and how we conducted ourselves. We just can't have that again," Worley said. "Losing 41-18 (last week) hurts, especially to Vandy.


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