Jay Greeson and Chris Lee preview Tennessee’s trip to Kentucky, a game shown at 6:45 Central on the SEC Network in Week 9 of the 2025 college football season. FanDuel favors the Vols by 9 1/2. Topics include:

In a bit of a reset year given losses after the 2024 season. coach Josh Heupel has the Vols a few plays from being unbeaten thanks to a high-scoring offense paced by Joey Aguilar, DeSean Bishop and Chris Brazzell. The Tennessee defense has bled yards and points, but some of that is because of tempo (there are 150 plays in the average game the Vols play). So Kentucky needs to replicate last week’s 26-to-8 first-down edge vs. Texas to have a shot an an upset.

However, the Tennessee defense has also been good at forcing turnovers and turning them into points, something that Kentucky (two touchdowns with its offense on the field vs. South Carolina) has found problematic. Tennessee is the team with more to play for, but Kentucky showed it hadn’t given up on coach Mark Stoops with a 395-177 loss to Texas in overtime last week. This series has more often been close than not in recent years in Lexington.

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