The Tennessee Vols caught a stray on Friday night during the Holiday Bowl showdown between Syracuse and Washington State.
Late in the fourth quarter of Syracuse’s 52-35 win over Washington State, Fox Sports announcers Joel Klatt and Gus Johnson took aim at Tennessee and the SEC.
Klatt and Johnson, who typically call Big 10 games for Fox, poked fun at the conversation surrounding losses by road teams in the first round of the College Football Playoff.
Some analysts (mostly from ESPN) and fans have suggested that SMU and Indiana losing in the first round proves they weren’t deserving of reaching the playoff over teams like Alabama, South Carolina, and Ole Miss.
Klatt and Johnson used Tennessee’s blowout loss to Ohio State in the first round (while laughing maniacally) to fire back at those analysts/fans.
“What I loved about it more than anything, SMU and Tennessee had to go play in cold weather,” said Johnson. “SEC teams finally played a game in cold weather.”
“Yeah, how’d that work out for them,” responded Klatt with Johnson’s aggressive laugh in the background. “I will tell you this though, I knew Ohio State was gonna run (Tennessee) out of the building when they ran out there with that fake toughness with their shirts off and started warming up. I was like oh ok, the Buckeyes got this.”