KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee coach Butch Jones will thoroughly, thoroughly examine every aspect of his program as the Volunteers prepare for the Music City Bowl and attempt to reverse a late-season slide.After getting off to a 5-0 start and being ranked as high as ninth, Tennessee (8-4) dropped four of its final seven regular-season games, including surprising losses at South Carolina and Vanderbilt . The Vols face No. 24 Nebraska (9-3) in the Music City Bowl on Dec. 30 at Nashville, Tennessee.Obviously we did not finish (the regular season) the way we wanted to finish, Jones said. Thats unacceptable in our program. I take responsibility for that as the leader of this program. We have to do a better job of finishing.Tennessees slump makes this a different type of bowl season for the Vols.Each of the last two years, Tennessee posted one-sided bowl victories that capped late-season surges. Tennessees 45-6 Outback Bowl blowout of Northwestern last year highlighted a six-game winning streak to close the season. Two years ago, the Vols won four of their last five games, including a 45-28 TaxSlayer Bowl triumph over Iowa .Tennessees players say they remain as motivated as ever for the bowl game. Theyre eager to stay in their home state and correct the mistakes theyve made in their last few games.Well be excited to actually play another game and redeem ourselves from our last performance, quarterback Joshua Dobbs said.This isnt the way Tennessee anticipated ending its season. The Vols were picked to win the SEC Eastern Division title but finished behind Florida, a team they had beaten early in the season. They still had a legitimate shot at earning a Sugar Bowl bid until their loss to Vanderbilt.The recent struggles have Tennessee eager to address the long-term health of its program while also preparing for the bowl game.I will thoroughly, thoroughly examine everything in our football program in moving forward, Jones said. Every amount of time where Im not recruiting or not in a home or not in a high school, Im examining that and will continue to do that. Thats a process. You have to take the emotion out. You have to look at where youre at, you have to look at how far youve come and then you have to look at your deficiencies as a football team and a football program.Jones said one of Tennessees major offseason priorities is adding depth. A multitude of injuries and a porous defense prevented Tennessee from maintaining the form it showed early in the season.We have to continue to recruit that depth, Jones said. Our starting 22 could play with anybody in the country. I think we saw that starting out 5-0.Dobbs, defensive end Derek Barnett, offensive tackle Brett Kendrick, wide receiver Josh Malone and defensive tackle Kendal Vickers are the only Vols who started all 12 regular-season games. Injuries have caused Tennessee to start seven different offensive line combinations and 10 different secondary combinations. The defense lost tackles Kahlil McKenzie and Shy Tuttle, linebackers Jalen Reeves-Maybin and Quarte Sapp plus safety Evan Berry to season-ending injuries.The bad news on the injury front continued Monday when Jones announced offensive tackle Chance Hall has undergone surgery and will miss the Music City Bowl. Hall missed Tennessees last three regular-season games with a knee injury.All those injuries may help explain why defensive end LaTroy Lewis says this year is definitely not a disappointment, even though the Vols didnt live up to their preseason billing.I probably can sit here and talk to numerous friends playing around the country, and they would trade (for) our eight wins in a heartbeat, Lewis said.---More AP college football: www.collegefootball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25---Follow Steve Megargee at www.twitter.com/stevemegargee J.J. Watt Jersey . Once again Jordan Cieciwa (@FitCityJordan) and I (@LynchOnSports) go head to head in our picks. Last weekend at UFC Fight Night 32 my #TeamLynch got the best of #TeamJC by a score of 9-6. Let us know which side youre on for UFC 167 use the hashtag #TeamLynch or #TeamJC on Twitter. 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In all Scarlets named 11 internationals in their 23-man squad.Centre Dan Goggin made his first start for Munster, who also included full-back Simon Zebo and flanker Tommy ODonnell.Despite a wealth of possession for Scarlets and a lot of mistakes from Munster at line-outs and restarts, it was the Irish side who went in at half-time with a 17-10 lead.Scarlets spent most of the first quarter in Munsters half but could not get on the scoreboard with Patchell missing an 11th minute penalty goal attempt.Munster suffered a setback when Zebo was forced off with a rib injury but with their first visit into Scarlets 22 they scored with Cronin getting the ball down under the posts for Bleyendaal to add the conversion.Scarlets got some points on the board witth a Patchell penalty on 27 minutes but three minutes later OMahony ran through a huge gap to claim Munsters second try.dddddddddddd Bleyendaals conversion made it 14-3 on the half-hour mark.Scarlets needed something special to get back in the game and they got it with a quick tap penalty deep in his own half from Davies, who broke free kicked ahead and reclaimed the ball to score the try, which was converted by Patchell.But Munster had the final say of the half when Bleyendaal kicked a penalty two minutes before the break.The South African missed a relatively easy penalty attempt at the start of the second half, while Patchell found the target with his own penalty shot on 48 minutes to reduce the deficit to four points.But Scarlets continued to have no answer to Munsters strong defensive effort and on 54 minutes Bleyendaal restored his sides seven-point lead with his second penalty kick.And any chance Scarlets had of getting back in the game seemed to go when a Scarlets penalty was reversed after lock Lewis Rawlins dropped the shoulder at a ruck. Keatley stepped up to kick the long range penalty to extent Munsters lead to 10 points.In the final minute Patchell missed a penalty which if he had converted it would have earned Scarlets a bonus point. It was Scarlets third successive home defeat after they lost their final two matches at Parc y Scarlets last season. ' ' '