Travel agents, like newspaper reporters, are a struggling breed in today’s Internet-heavy culture.

That’s why I’m combining those two jobs and advising Tennessee fans wishing to support the Vols during the holiday season to book a room in Florida where the basketball team will play in the Orlando Classic over Thanksgiving weekend.

For the fifth season in a row, there will be no opportunity to support the Tennessee football team in a bowl game.

Road games against Oklahoma, Georgia, Ole Miss and South Carolina are also great opportunities to follow the football team on the road in 2014, but not if you like to see the Vols win.

A home game against Alabama will mark UT’s eighth straight loss to the Crimson Tide.

Only a mid-season contest with Chattanooga promises a nearly definite win. And don’t sleep on the Mocs, a solid FCS program which would love nothing more than to give its big brother a scare in Neyland Stadium.

The Vols will also enter as the favorite in games against Utah State and Arkansas State.

Contests against Florida, Kentucky, Missouri and Vanderbilt could go either way. Assume Tennessee wins two of those four and beats Utah State, Arkansas State and Chattanooga.

This brings the team to five wins for the fourth season in a row.

UT could realistically finish with four to seven wins, but with widespread inexperience and a veteran core which knows little beyond losing, it’s unreasonable to expect coach Butch Jones’ second squad to defeat any of the top-notch opponents on its schedule this season.

Enjoy your stay in Orlando.

David Cobb is a senior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at [email protected].