Get the flowers ready. Engravings will need to be done. Final arrangements are scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 21.

Soon, another Tennessee football season will be laid to rest.

People are rightfully pouring dirt on the Volunteers after another catastrophic loss over the weekend, this one an epic fall-from-ahead choke job at home against BYU. According to ESPN’s win probability formula, Tennessee had a 99.9 percent chance of beating the Cougars with :47 left in Saturday’s game.

Instead, the Vols allowed a 64-yard completion while trying to play prevent defense, allowing BYU to tie the game with :01 left on a field goal. The Cougars would go on to win 29-26 in two overtimes.

If the game felt familiar to those who bleed orange and white, it’s because it was.

Maybe it reminded fans of 2017 when Tennessee looked poised to take a game in Gainesville against the Gators into OT, only to allow Florida to throw a 63-yard touchdown over the top as time expired.

Or perhaps it was more like the 2015 Florida game when the Vols led 27-21 and had the Gators facing fourth-and-14 at their own 37, only to allow a 63-yard touchdown pass that was compounded by four missed tackles.

If it wasn’t those two games, maybe it was any other of the countless losses that left ESPN or CBS producers gleefully panning the crowd to find Vol fans in orange and white overalls in the famed surrender cobra pose – two hands behind the head, eyes wide in shock. If that doesn’t paint a clear enough picture, Google "surrender cobra." As of this writing, the top result on Google was a dictionary.com entry with a picture of two Vols fans accompanying it as an illustration.

Even Tennessee’s biggest win of perhaps the decade – the miraculous "Dobbs Nail Boot" game where the Vols beat Georgia on a Hail Mary – happened because of terrible pass defense late by the Vols.

Tennessee only needed to protect against a long pass, but allowed the Bulldogs to throw a 47-yard touchdown with :10 left. The Vols had a 99.9 percent chance of winning that game with 1:20 to go – a number that seems to pop up right before a new tombstone goes up in the Vol graveyard.

Odds are, this season cannot be salvaged. If there’s a sliver of a chance, it will come in Gainesville next weekend when Tennessee will likely enter the Swamp at 1-2 and desperately needing to save face. 

There’s a 99.9 percent chance the Gators put the final nails in the coffin.