Orlando Brown once was committed to Tennessee for more than nine months, but there's apparently no love lost between Brown and the Vols now that he's at Oklahoma.

The Sooners' redshirt freshman offensive tackle, who parted ways with Tennessee in February 2014 just before National Signing Day, is looking forward to playing against the 23rd-ranked Vols (1-0) when No. 19 Oklahoma (1-0) travels to Neyland Stadium on Saturday, according to a report from The Oklahoma Daily, Oklahoma's independent student newspaper.

Sophomore offensive lineman Jonathan Alvarez said Brown, who made his first career start at left tackle Saturday in the Sooners' season-opening win over Akron, "hates" the Vols and is "all about going back and beating Tennessee" this weekend.

"Since he's been here, Orlando has been all about going back and beating Tennessee," Alvarez told the newspaper. "He's always talking about how he hates them and he just wants to get back at them."

Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said the 6-foot-8, 342-pound Brown — who's the son of the late Orlando Brown Sr., a former NFL offensive lineman — "called me late in recruiting and said, ‘Coach, I’ve reconsidered what I want to do.’"

Sources at the time indicated that Brown didn't sign with the Vols because of academic concerns.

"I don't really care what (Tennessee) did to him," Alvarez told the Oklahoma Daily. "I just know that (Orlando) is with us now and he's one of my brothers now.

"If he's angry about Tennessee, we're angry, too."

Brown, however, downplayed the personal significance of playing against Tennessee.

"It doesn't feel any different than going to Baylor or West Virginia or wherever," he told the newspaper. "It's all the same for me."

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