The Tennessee Volunteers suffered a tough loss on Saturday evening, falling 19-14 to the Arkansas Razorbacks in Fayetteville.  The aftermath resulted in a chaotic scene after the game, as Arkansas fans flooded the field and tore down the goalposts at Razorback Stadium.  

Unfortunately, opposing fans celebrating in their own stadium as Josh Heupel and his team file off the field has been an occurrence that's happened too often over the last few years.  

ESPN's Paul Finebaum discussed the Vols with Matt Barrie on Sunday, and he summed up the Vols' fortunes on the road with four pretty simple words: they don't travel well. 

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"Matt, I didn't predict this one right either, but let me tell you – this was easier to see because you just had this nagging feeling that this is a nasty place to be at night. Twelve o'clock in the afternoon, no, and it proved to be, and – this Tennessee team that we bought because they beat an absolutely miserable NC State team and a good Oklahoma team that was nowhere to be found – and Nico looked like a young player, not a Heisman candidate that so many tried to make him out to be. 

"It feels a little aberrational. It did save Sam Pittman's job, and he's another guy that's been so close, but I was thinking about – maybe they're a little better than I thought while watching that A&M game yesterday because they played a one-possession game [against] them.  

"This Tennessee team reminded me a little bit of last year's team, and the year before, remember?  The year that they were so good.  They let that game get away at South Carolina.

"They don't travel well." 

And it's very, very hard to argue with that last sentence.  During Heupel's tenure, the Vols have amassed a 7-8 record in true road games.  They have a sterling 21-4 mark at home.  

Sure, yes, it's obviously tough to win on the road in the SEC.  Very tough most of the time.  However, the elite teams find a way to do it most of the time.  And the Vols haven't just lost.  They've come apart and looked like a completely undisciplined and, at times, a completely lost football team.  They look completely nothing like the team that plays at home or on neutral site locations.  

Examples: 63-38 to South Carolina in 2022.  36-7 to Missouri last season.  29-16 to a very bad Florida team last year as well.  And now, blowing a 14-3 lead to a team that lost its starting quarterback while doing nothing offensively to put the game away when it could have on multiple second half drives.  

Phillip Fulmer had the Florida monkey on his back that he struggled to shake off.  Heupel has one that wearing a shirt that says "road" on it.  Can he find a way to start getting his team to play better in his fourth season?  If he can't, then the Vols will surely fall short of their goals by the end of the season. 

And Heupel will start having a major question to answer heading into his fifth season in Knoxville. 

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