After Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt and athletic director Phil Fulmer had been peppered with questions about how this all happened, Gator Bowl president Rick Catlett felt the need to interject.



“The selection process is very fluid, and I know there was an awful lot of people writing an awful lot of things about this projection, that projection,” Catlett said. “This is my 28th year. This has gone just about the way it always goes.”



Well … not quite.



Even the bowl’s official Twitter account had to admit Sunday was as unpredictable and entertaining as the eight-week rally Tennessee mounted to reach the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, where it will play Indiana on Jan. 2, in the first place.



Multiple reports Sunday had Tennessee slated for a trip just a couple hours west to Nashville for the Music City Bowl. VolQuest, Tennessee’s Rivals.com site, posted a lengthy story, citing sources, that broke down a presumed...