Tennessee entered 2016 as a playoff contender and will end it by playing Nebraska in the Music City Bowl.
But that's okay, because the Volunteers won a championship of life earlier this year.
Monday, UT head coach Butch Jones spoke about the level of competition involved in winning something that prestigious.
Butch Jones on champions for life "I want to say 7 college football programs have that motto so when I said it it didn't resonate very well"
— Rhiannon Potkey (@TennesseeBeat) December 26, 2016
No word yet on the programs Jones compares to Tennessee.
Source: @TennesseeBeat
