Last Sunday, offensive line coach Jeff Grimes approached Bart Eddins and asked if he was ready to play against Tennessee.

"I said, 'Yes sir,'" Eddins said. "He said, 'Prove it to me.'"

Eddins did just that but it wasn't easy.

Eddins, a junior, has been battling through a knee injury this fall and has been working mainly as a backup center. He moved to right guard Sunday, in place of the suspended Byron Isom, and three days later he learned he would start his first career game at Tennessee.

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