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Tennessee Football Smokey Points: Top 5 Vols Performers in the Music City Bowl

By Caleb Calhoun

Dec 30, 2016; Nashville , TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers wide receiver Josh Malone (3) catches a pass against the Nebraska Cornhuskers during the first half at Nissan Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Brown-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 30, 2016; Nashville , TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers wide receiver Josh Malone (3) catches a pass against the Nebraska Cornhuskers during the first half at Nissan Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Brown-USA TODAY Sports /
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Dec 30, 2016; Nashville , TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers quarterback Joshua Dobbs (11) celebrates with fans after a win against the Nebraska Cornhuskers at Nissan Stadium. Tennessee won 38-24. Mandatory Credit: Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 30, 2016; Nashville , TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers quarterback Joshua Dobbs (11) celebrates with fans after a win against the Nebraska Cornhuskers at Nissan Stadium. Tennessee won 38-24. Mandatory Credit: Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports /

Tennessee football dominated the Nebraska Cornhuskers 38-24 in the Music City Bowl. Here are the five Volunteers who earned helmet stickers in the game.

For some players, it was an encore. For others, it was a glimpse into what they might be able to do next year. But everybody deserves credit for showing up and delivering a solid bowl victory for Tennessee football.

Now, the Vols have finished 9-4 for two straight seasons under Butch Jones, and they’ll likely have a second straight Top 25 finish.

Sure, it’s not what they wanted going into the year.

But they managed to stay focused and never quit. And they finished the year with a great victory over one of the Top 10 college football programs of all time…a program that owned them twice in the 1990s.

So yes, the Vols deserve credit for coming out and wanting to play hard in this game despite not much to play for.

The players easily could have stopped caring, but they have a completely different make-up than previous Vols teams.

Specific Tennessee football players deserve tons of respect for the way they stepped up, and we are honoring them here with helmet stickers in our final round of Smokey Points.

These guys gave everything they had and put up huge numbers in the final game of the year. And for some of them, it may have been their last college game ever.

So they deserve credit for making it a memorable one as opposed to sitting out or playing with little effort. And we are going to recognize them for it.

Here are the top five Tennessee football performers from their Music City Bowl win over Nebraska.

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