Tennessee football: Kickoff time, TV set for Auburn game

Details were revealed for the Tennessee football Volunteers at Auburn.

They may be 2-4, but Tennessee football is still getting looks on national television. The Vols are set to face the No. 5 ranked Texas A&M Aggies this weekend at 3:30 p.m. on ESPN, and no matter how badly they get blown out, they’ll stay on that network the next week.

The SEC revealed Monday that UT’s road matchup with the Auburn Tigers on Saturday, Nov. 21 will also take place on ESPN. Kickoff time for that game is set for 7 p.m. ET, meaning the Vols can embarrass themselves in front of a national audience in primetime once again.

These upcoming weeks will be the first two games on ESPN all year for Tennessee football. This will also be the Vols’ third night-game of the season, following the South Carolina Gamecocks in the opener and the Arkansas Razorbacks this past week. The league revealed its slate of games for that day on Twitter.

By the end of that day the Vols will have played three night games, two noon games and three 3:30 p.m. ET games. They will have played two games on ESPN, four on the SEC Network and two on CBS.

Matchups with the Vanderbilt Commodores and Florida Gators, which are set for Nov. 28 and Dec. 5, are still up in the air in terms of time and television station. However, if the Vols keep playing the way they’ve been playing, they aren’t likely to get any primetime spots for those games.

After losing to Arkansas, UT’s 2-4 record is expected to turn into 3-7 by the end of the year, as Vandy is the only likely win on the slate left. Texas A&M and Florida are both top 10 teams, and Auburn is a top 25 team. It’s hard to see Jeremy Pruitt’s kids winning any of those games, and a winning record to finish the year now is almost impossible.