Tennessee football is a win away from heading to the College Football Playoff. The Vols face Vanderbilt on Saturday in Nashville.

Tennessee football closes the regular season at Vanderbilt with a College Football Playoff bid at stake for the Vols, who enter at 9-2.

It's pretty simple: win and the Volunteers will clinch a spot in the College Football Playoff for the first time in program history. However, Diego Pavia and the Dores will have something to say about that.

Former Tennessee football head coach Bill Battle, who led the Volunteers to five bowl games and three top-10 poll finishes from 1970-76, passed away at the age of 82 on Thanksgiving morning. William “Bill” Raines Battle III compiled a 55-22-2 record in seven seasons with four bowl victories.

Bill Battle III, who was athletic director at his alma mater, Alabama, where he played for Paul “Bear” Bryant’s first national championship team, coached the Tennessee Volunteers and also founded the Collegiate Licensing Company,

Bill Battle, a former football coach at Tennessee, has died. The University of Alabama, where he played football and later would serve as athletic director, made the announcement Thursday. He was 82.