{"id":449641,"date":"2026-09-27T22:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/449641\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T22:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:40:09","slug":"tennessee-looks-to-learn-from-loss-to-top-ranked-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/449641\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee looks to learn from loss to top-ranked Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WCYB) \u2014 Tennessee football kicked off conference play on Saturday with a close 20-17 loss to top-ranked Texas. <\/p>\n<p>However, it was a late charge from the Vols that gave fans inside of Neyland hope of a comeback victory. <\/p>\n<p>In the end Head Coach Josh Heupel believes that there are things to improve upon and a few bright spots. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do love how the team continued to fight and play until the last play,&#8221; Heupel said. &#8220;We did not play smart enough, but I&#8217;ll take the effort of playing the next play and continuing to fight until the clock ticks zero.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The Vols will look to bounce back next week as Auburn makes the trip to Neyland Stadium. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WCYB) \u2014 Tennessee football kicked off conference play on Saturday with a close 20-17 loss to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-449641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449641","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=449641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}