Volunteers head football coach Josh Heupel twice had to ask a reporter in the press room to silence a phone blaring the Georgia Battle Hymn after Tennessee’s Week 12 loss to the Bulldogs in Athens.“If it wasn’t a bad enough night for Josh Heupel and his Tennessee football team,

The Tennessee Volunteers were in a place on Saturday night against the Bulldogs where they haven't been in a long time: in the game in the fourth quarter. The Vols held the ball down 24-17 with under 9 minutes to go in Georgia territory with a legitimate chance.

On one of those nights that little went right for Tennessee after its quick first-quarter start, the clincher might have come afterward in the bowels of Sanford Stadium during coach Josh Heupel's postgame news conference.