Tennessee and Florida have one of the better rivalries in the SEC, but it hasn’t been a rivalry as of late. Believe it or not, the Gators have won 10 straight games.

In the 90s, whichever team won — the Vols or Gators — was likely to win the SEC East and play for the SEC Championship. The rivalry between Phillip Fulmer and Steve Spurrier was raging. Tennessee was saturating NFL rosters with former players.

It’s just not that way anymore, but Butch Jones is trying to fix that, after starting 0-2 against the Gators.

During Tennessee’s Big Orange Caravan stop at the College Football Hall of Fame in downtown Atlanta, Jones opened up about the 10-9 loss to Florida in 2014. Although Jones said losing to Florida was the ‘lowest point of his career’, he went on to say that it was the turning point of the 7-6 season.

“It’s like last year, when we laid it out, the South Carolina game was really the culmination of really learning how to win,” Jones said, via 247Sports. “But I think the changing point was the Florida game, because obviously it was extremely disappointing for all involved. It was probably the lowest moment I’ve ever had in my career, and I had to put my tie on and go home and have 12 individuals at my house for an official visit.”

Jones is in the meat of the ebbs and flows of rebuilding Tennessee back into a national power, and he’s stacking talent like cord wood.

Tennessee will enter the 2015 season with as much or more momentum than any team in college football, and many are saying the East is Tennessee’s to lose.