Rocky Top Roundtable: Arkansas

Tennessee hosts Arkansas this weekend as both teams are coming off a bye week. It’s a matchup that has plenty of unknowns with Arkansas firing Sam Pittman and replacing him with Bobby Petrino.

“You don’t know how everyone responds to that,” Brent Hubbs said. “It’s one thing to let your head coach go but another things for your interim to let the whole defensive staff go. There has been a lot of turmoil and change over there. You don’t know what you are going to get other than the quarterback is pretty talented.”

Tennessee is 13-7 all time against Arkansas, dating back to 1907, but the Vols have lost four straight and have not beaten the Razorbacks since 2007. Tennessee fell last year in Fayetteville 19-14. The offense is looking to continue building on a successful start to the season.

“Just keep doing what you are doing,” Hubbs said. “I wrote this and said it but it feels like Chris Brazzell the ball more. It seems crazy because he is getting the ball a ton but it seems like Tennessee is getting open at the receiver position in a way that they aren’t having to scheme a bunch of people open. They are just able to get open which is arguably outside of Joey Aguilar, the biggest surprise of this first month.”

The Vols won 41-34 in overtime at Mississippi State before the open date. Arkansas, which is also coming off a bye, lost 56-13 to Notre Dame in Fayetteville the same week.

Watch the full Rocky Top Roundtable below.

How to Watch: No. 15 Tennessee vs. Arkansas

When: Saturday, 4:15 p.m. Eastern Time | Where: Neyland Stadium

TV: SEC Network

Radio: WNML 99.1 and WIVK 107.7 FM in Knoxville (Mike Keith, Ramon Foster, Brent Hubbs, Jayson Swain). The Vol Network radio broadcast can be heard on local affiliates across the state of Tennessee.