{"id":220969,"date":"2025-10-13T07:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/220969\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T07:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:24:08","slug":"where-tennessee-is-ranked-after-34-31-win-over-arkansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/220969\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Tennessee is ranked after 34-31 win over Arkansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/tennessee-volunteers\/category\/football\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessee Football<\/a> moved one spot to No. 11 in both the new <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press Top 25<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/coaches-poll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coaches Poll<\/a> on Sunday, following the 34-31 win over Arkansas at Neyland Stadium. <\/p>\n<p>The Vols (5-1, 2-1 SEC) go to Alabama (5-1, 3-0) on Saturday in 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time start on ABC at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa. The Crimson Tide on Sunday moved up two spots to No. 6 in both polls after a 27-24 win at Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas on Saturday afternoon built a 17-10 lead over the first 20 minutes, but Tennessee scored 24 unanswered points to build a 34-17 in the fourth quarter, before the Razorbacks scored twice late to get back within three points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/desean-bishop-146613\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DeSean Bishop<\/a> ran for 146 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries to lead Tennessee before leaving the game with what appeared to be a right leg injury in the second half.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/joey-aguilar-62716\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joey Aguilar<\/a> completed 16 of 25 passes for 221 yards and a touchdown and ran five times for 59 yards an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/braylon-staley-173920\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Braylon Staley<\/a> caught six passes for 106 yards before leaving in the second half with an injury of his own.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee recovered three of four Arkansas fumbles and ended the night giving up 496 yards, with the Razorbacks passing for 256 yards and running for 240 yards on 45 attempts. <\/p>\n<p>Alabama has won five straight after loss at Florida State<\/p>\n<p>Alabama has won five straight, including three straight SEC wins over ranked opponents, after the 31-17 loss at Florida State to start the season on August 30 in Tallahassee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Crimson Tide won 27-24 at No. 14 Missouri on Saturday, after the 30-14 win over then-No. 16 Vanderbilt last week and the 24-21 win at then-No. 5 Georgia two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>They beat UL Monroe 73-0 in Week 2 and Wisconsin 38-14 in Week 2.<\/p>\n<p>The Third Saturday in October<\/p>\n<p>Alabama leads the Third Saturday In October rivalry 59-40-1, a streaky series that dates back to 1901.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee has won two of its last three against the Crimson Tide, dating back to the 52-49 win at Neyland Stadium in 2022. That win snapped what was a 15-game winning streak for Alabama in the rivalry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Vols won seven straight between 1995 and 2001 and 10 of 12 between 1995 and 2006.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee\u2019s 41-14 win in 1995 was the first for the Vols over Alabama since 1985. It was a four-game winning streak for Tennessee between 1982 and 1985 and 1967 and 1970 and 11 straight for Alabama between 1971 and 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama went 5-0-1 against Tennessee between 1961 and 1966 and Tennessee went 5-0-1 between 1955 and 1960.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennessee Football moved one spot to No. 11 in both the new Associated Press Top 25 and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,4504,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-220969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-regwall","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}