The Music City Bowl scheduled for December 30th in Nashville, TN has been played since 1998. It places the Atlantic Coast Conference versus the South Eastern Conference. Tennessee has never played in the Music City Bowl until now. Tennessee will be facing The North Carolina Tarheels, Tennessee and North Carolina are both unranked.
North Carolina will also make it's first appearance in the Music City Bowl this year. UNC finished the season 7-5 with a 4-4 record inside the ACC. This will be UNC's Third straight bowl game appearance, who finished their last two seasons appearing in the Mienke Car Care Bowl in which they lost. They are looking for their first bowl win since 2001, when they beat Auburn 16-10 in the Chick-fil-a Peach Bowl in Atlanta. This would also be the last time that North Carolina beat an SEC team.
This should be a close game in spite of this basically being a home game for Tennessee. The Vols have not beaten a ranked opponent all season, and they have struggle with being young and inexperienced. Tyler Bray is still coming into his own as the team's starting Quarterback, but seems to be developing quite well considering he has not lost a game since being named the starter over quarterback Matt Simms. The Vols enter this game with a 6-6 record and a 3-5 conference record and they go into the Music Bowl with a 4 game winning streak, which is the longest winning streak of any other team in the SEC East. I look for Tennessee to come out on top in this game by a touchdown.
