The Tennessee Volunteers fired Phillip Fulmer (forced him out) effective after this season ends. He has been the coach for 17 years, but like Joe Torre in baseball he always seemed to make odd decisions and get by based off of the players' talent rather than managerial/coaching decisions. Nonetheless he was obviously a good coach to be able to win about 150 games.

Tennessee is only 3-6 this season. in fact even Memphis has a better record and they lost their first, second, and THIRD string quarterbacks which somewhat offsets the much better schedule of Tennessee's.

Basically for either Tennessee or Memphis to make a bowl game, they need to win their final three games. I actually think it's probably more likely for Memphis to do it, despite using a fourth string QB. Why? They play a 1-8 team on the road and then play 2 home games against teams with 2 or 3 wins.

Now Tennessee dropped to 3-7 and Memphis went up to 5-5 despite using a fourth string QB. lol