{"id":445730,"date":"2026-09-24T01:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445730\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T01:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:38:09","slug":"initial-tennessee-vs-texas-availability-report-released-by-the-sec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445730\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial Tennessee vs. Texas availability report released by the SEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Tennessee Volunteers are gearing up for the start of SEC on Saturday in a very big way, as they play host to the No. 1 Texas Longhorns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Vols come in as 3.5-point underdogs, and both teams enter the game relatively healthy, although the Vols are dealing with the losses of S Edrees Farooq and TE Ethan Davis, among a couple of others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Perhaps the most notable name for Tennessee is safety Dylan Lewis, who is listed as doubtful for the contest. Lewis provides some depth in a secondary that\u2019s a little bit thin without Farooq in the fold. Nathan Robinson was also listed as questionable, who again also has a significant role in the defensive line rotation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">But it\u2019s who wasn\u2019t on the list that\u2019s important. RB DeSean Bishop, who appeared to be favoring his hip against Kennesaw State, was not listed on the report and thus appears cleared to go for Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The name to watch for Texas is EDGE Colin Simmons. The Longhorns\u2019 star edge rusher was spotted in a walking boot after the Horns\u2019 win over UTSA last week. It seems Texas believes he\u2019s likely to go, as he\u2019s listed as probably. Another is RB Hollywood Smothers, who scored the last two touchdowns in the Longhorns\u2019 24-23 comeback win over Ohio State. He\u2019s listed as questionable for the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">We\u2019ll see if the reports change when Friday gets here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tennessee Volunteers are gearing up for the start of SEC on Saturday in a very big way,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153816,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-445730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-tennessee-volunteer-football","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}