Game Thread: TaxSlayer Bowl - Tennessee vs Iowa |Jan. 2, 2015| 3:20 pm ET| ESPN

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Volunteers (6-6, 3-5 SEC)
Hawkeyes (7-5, 4-4 Big Ten)

Tennessee will be the home team

 

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Should be a good game. I look forward to beating the Vols in a bowl game again.

 

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Should be a good game. I look forward to beating the Vols in a bowl game again.

 

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Tennessee Vols' Butch Jones talks Taxslayer Bowl, Iowa Hawkeyes

 

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Not sure how well Vols fans travel, but I'm pretty sure we'll have a lot of farmers at the game rooting for the Hawkeyes. Iowa second in population only to the Chinese.

 

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Tennessee travels pretty well. There will definitely be a lot of Vol fans there, lol...

 

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Not a lot of history between these two teams.

Last meetings:
1987: Kick-off Classic - East Rutherford, NJ
Tennessee (10-2-1) 23
Iowa (10-3) 22

1982: Peach Bold - Atlanta, GA
Iowa (8-4) 28
Tennessee (6-5-1) 22

 

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All I know for sure is that the stadium will be blinding with all that orange and yellow...

 

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All I know for sure is that the stadium will be blinding with all that orange and yellow...

 

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Vegas odds for college football bowl games 2014 season

 

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Croom injured his knee and will miss the bowl game, and North might be out as well.

Big blow to the offense.

 

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The University of Iowa is expecting to sell roughly half of its allotment of football tickets for the Jan. 2 TaxSlayer Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla. Pam Finke, the university's director of athletic ticket operations, said Monday afternoon that the school had sold less than 3,300 of the 8,000 tickets that Iowa was obligated to sell by accepting the bowl bid. "We're probably end up between 3,500 and 4,000," Finke said. "We're still getting some calls and taking some orders. … It's slowing down."

Tennessee, Iowa's opponent in the game formerly known at the Gator Bowl, sold out its allotment of 8,000 tickets in the middle of last week.

Plenty of tickets remain through UI for TaxSlayer Bowl

Doesn't sound like Iowa will have as big of a turnout as last years bowl game.

 

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Big sophomore Jason Croom is now the fourth Tennessee wide receiver to suffer a season-ending injury in 2014.
Croom suffered a knee injury earlier this week in practice and won't play in the Jan. 2 TaxSlayer (Gator) Bowl against Iowa, Vols wide receivers coach Zach Azzanni confirmed after Tuesday's practice. One of the biggest receivers in college football from a stature standpoint, the 6-foot-5, 243-pound Croom has been a solid player this season for Tennessee when he's been healthy. But now he's joined sophomore Marquez North (shoulder), sophomore Josh Smith (ankle) and junior Cody Blanc (achilles) on the season-ending injury list. Several other wideouts have been dinged up throughout the season, turning what could have been the SEC's deepest and arguably best receiver corps into a much thinner group.

Croom collected 305 yards and four touchdowns this season on 21 catches — numbers that look a bit better when considering he played the first three games with a cast covering a wrist injury, was very limited the regular-season finale at Vanderbilt because of a leg injury and now will miss the bowl game because of a knee problem.

Vols' Croom out for bowl game

 

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