{"id":312714,"date":"2026-06-19T04:43:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/312714\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T04:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:43:19","slug":"notorious-florida-gators-quarterback-admits-he-wants-no-part-of-the-tennessee-vols-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/312714\/","title":{"rendered":"Notorious Florida Gators quarterback admits he wants no part of the Tennessee Vols right now"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former Florida Gators quarterback who is known for more than football basically admitted this week that he wants no part of the Tennessee Volunteers right now.<\/p>\n

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A former Florida Gators quarterback, who may be more well known for his work on TV than the football field, basically admitted this week he wants no part of the Tennessee Vols right now. <\/p>\n

Jesse Palmer, a quarterback at Florida from 1997 to 2000 who also appeared on The Bachelor, joined Another Dooley Noted<\/a> podcast this week and dropped an interesting comment about the Gators\u2019 schedule this fall. <\/p>\n

Jesse Palmer is happy Florida won\u2019t play Tennessee in 2026<\/p>\n

Florida and Tennessee won\u2019t play each other this fall for the first time since 1989 (that\u2019s thanks to the SEC\u2019s new nine-game conference schedule, which significantly changed how SEC schedules look moving forward). <\/p>\n

And Palmer thinks that\u2019s a good thing. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s so many question marks, I feel like, on our team at quarterback and a lot of other spots heading into this year,\u201d said Palmer. \u201cBut listen, optimism \u2014 you remove LSU and Tennessee off the schedule, and you replace it with Kentucky and South Carolina. There are reasons for optimism.\u201d <\/p>\n

Palmer is basically saying he\u2019s glad Tennessee isn\u2019t on Florida\u2019s schedule. <\/p>\n

When was the last time anyone in Gainesville said that? They certainly weren\u2019t saying it when Florida had won 16 of 17 against Tennessee. <\/p>\n

But now the Vols have won three of their last four games against Florida (including a win last season in the Swamp), and the Gators aren\u2019t as interested in seeing the Volunteers each fall. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s a testament to the job that Josh Heupel has done at Tennessee. It wasn\u2019t that long ago that former Gators like Palmer couldn\u2019t wait to see the Vols on the schedule, and now they\u2019re happy to get a year off from playing the Big Orange. <\/p>\n

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Tennessee Volunteers News<\/p>\n

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Former Tennessee coach Tony Vitello admitted this week during the San Francisco Giants\u2019 series against the Atlanta Braves that he was working on something pretty cool before he left Knoxville that Vols fans would\u2019ve loved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Florida Gators quarterback who is known for more than football basically admitted this week that he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,31476],"class_list":["post-312714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-tennessee-vols"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}