​Tennessee coach Josh Heupel often heads to the mic soon after the game ends to start his postgame press conference. After the Alabama win, he took his time, savoring Neyland Stadium’s joyful atmosphere as fans rushed the field.The Volsmoved up to No. 11 in the US LBM Coaches Poll after the 26-10 victory.Here’s everything Heupel had to say after the Oct. 17 Alabama game. Josh Heupel postgame press conference transcript after win over AlabamaHeupel: Just want to start by saying thanks to our fans. Knew it would be, but an elite atmosphere. A part of the game for four quarters. Phenomenal atmosphere. Great win.This defense, suffocating. Elite performance.Really proud of those guys. They handled adversity and sudden change extremely well.Great performance by them, and as a team we found a way to win against a good football team. Really proud of our guys. Enjoy this one tonight and then start getting better tomorrow.Heupel on defensive coordinator Jim KnowlesQuestion: Jim is such a stoic guy, but after the game he’s dancing and cutting a jig. What’s he like for players to play for? Heupel: They love him. He’s a Philly guy. Tough, demanding. But they love him and they believe in him. He cuts up and has some fun with them too, man. He’s got a great way of connecting with people.I’ve seen that really from the very beginning in his own way of doing it. Elite job by him tonight.Tennessee’s run game and time of possessionQuestion: Tonight you beat the No. 2 scoring offense in the country in time of possession. Can you talk about what that run game has done for your offense and how it’s made things easier for your quarterbacks? Heupel: The run game, situationally, us playing smart and finding the right way to try to go win a football game. Operating out of the huddle offensively, there’s a lot of pieces of it.The run game certainly. You look at the way we were able to finish the football game. I don’t know how many plays it was, but a lot of big plays in the run game, a couple of key conversions throwing the football too.Really proud of the effort of our offense finishing that way.But we talked about this being a line-of-scrimmage game, boxing-match mentality, and having to win with physicality for four quarters. I thought we did that. Proud of our football team.Tennessee’s game-sealing 15-play touchdown driveQuestion: Fifteen plays, a nine-and-a-half-minute drive. For a coach who has earned a reputation for playing offense a certain type of way, how much pride do you take in that being the game-sealing drive?Heupel: I take a ton of pride in playing winning football at that point in the game and being able to function and operate. George did a really good job being able to drain the clock when we were asking him to do that.Then run the football the way that you needed to sustain a drive and then go finish that drive. Bishop was elite. At halftime I just said it’s going to be a big second half to him, and he had a big smile on his face, a gleam in his eye, an