Tennessee cancels football game against Army, because they needed an easier opponent

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Yes, Tennessee’s decision to replace Army with an easier opponent — Akron — for its Sept. 17, 2022, game is disheartening.

It’s also dishonorable and shameful.

And it shows how far Tennessee football has fallen that it chickened out of playing a service academy.

It’s even more disgraceful when you consider that the 2022 Congressional Medal of Honor Society Convention will occur that week in Knoxville.

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The Vols believe they'll have an easier time with Akron than Army, a more competitive opponent that features a triple-option offense that's tough to endure, especially the week before the Florida game.

“It’s a sad decision on that one act, because the Medal of Honor winners could have gone to an Army-UT game, which I think has a lot of heritage behind it,” said Wright, who was deployed to Germany during the Vietnam War and rose to the rank of Army first lieutenant.

“To me, it would have been a very prestigious game, UT playing Army. And it’s been relegated to backburner status of UT trying to get its football program back into a winning way.”

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