It was the gorilla on the back, the elephant in the room, and the last major hurdle for a program starved for a championship. Tennessee football fans refused to think of anything they could accomplish this year before first putting away the Florida Gators.
All we heard about throughout the offseason was this four-game stretch that the Vols are currently in the midst of. But in reality, it was all about the first game of the stretch.
If Tennessee could end their frustrating streak to Florida and silence the talk that Florida owns them, they could then start thinking about bigger things.