Tennessee coach Butch Jones isn’t treating his teams bye week as a week off, rather what he calls a “work week”. Jones’ Vols have 11 days until their next matchup against Georgia and are using the time off to stay focused on the task at hand.

“I thought it was a very productive start to the work week,” head coach Butch Jones said. “Everything is about every individual taking accountability to improving their individual fundamentals skills. We’re looking to add depth, obviously, offensively and defensively, and also to improve our special teams.”

The team will focus on adding depth where it is needed and using the time off to teach the fundamentals that may have been missing during Tennessee’s first three games. Jones wants to use every opportunity to get better with plenty of improvements left to be made.

“It’s an opportunity for some of these freshmen and younger players to kind of assert themselves on this football team,” Jones said. “So a lot of things that we need to get corrected and to improve on this open week or work week which we call it. I thought it was a great start to the week.”

Tennessee is coming off a 34-10 loss to Oklahoma in Week 3. The Vols opened the season with home wins against Utah State and Arkansas State before suffering their first loss on the road in Norman.

Tennessee is looking to make its first bowl game appearance since the 2010 season and finish with a winning record for the first time since 2009.