The Tennessee Vols will enter the month of November needing just two wins to reach bowl eligibility this season.

Tennessee has four games remaining on the schedule — at Kentucky, vs Georgia, vs South Alabama, and vs Vanderbilt.

The games against South Alabama and Vanderbilt should be wins for the Volunteers. The Kentucky game is a toss-up, while the Georgia game is a likely loss.

That means UT should finish either 6-6 or 7-5. If the Vols manage to get two more wins this season, it will mean that Josh Heupel is the first UT head coach to lead the Vols to a bowl game in year one since Derek Dooley in 2010 (Butch Jones and Jeremy Pruitt both went 5-7 in their first seasons at Tennessee).

For now, it's unclear if the Vols will face a bowl ban this season for the recruiting violations that occurred under Pruitt.

Until we hear otherwise, we're going to assume that UT is good to go for a bowl game this season.

The best bowl game scenario for the Tennessee Vols

The latest bowl game projection from CBS Sports has the Vols landing in a dream scenario.

Jerry Palm has Tennessee playing Clemson in the Dukes Mayo Bowl.

This would be perfect.

And it's all because of recruiting.

First off, the game is played in Charlotte, NC — an important recruiting area for the Vols.

When Tennessee was on top of the college football world in the late 90s/early 2000s, the Carolinas were an area where the Vols recruited extremely well. UT needs to get back to consistently landing elite players from the Carolinas if they're going to reach the top of the SEC East anytime soon.

Beating Clemson in Charlotte would be absolutely huge for Tennessee when it comes to recruiting players from the Carolinas. It would also help with recruiting players from Northwest Georgia and even East Tennessee.

Those are areas Clemson has owned over the last several years.

There have been numerous players that were key to Clemson's recent College Football Playoff runs that were from areas that Tennessee used to dominate in recruiting.

(Tee Higgins, Amari Rodgers, and Trevor Lawrence just to name a few.)

Beating Clemson — even though the Tigers are down this year — would allow Heupel and his staff to flex a little bit on the recruiting trail in those areas.

It would also allow Heupel to sell Tennessee being in a better spot as a program than Clemson.

That might be enough to swing a couple of key recruits to UT.

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