While head coach at Ole Miss, Tennessee offensive coordinator David Cutcliffe no doubt had a few late nights trying to figure out how to scheme against John Chavis' defense.

It's a safe bet last night wasn't one of those times.

Fans will see plenty when Tennessee ends its spring practice with today's Orange and White game at 2 p.m. in Neyland Stadium.

What they won't see is Chavis and Cutcliffe trying to gameplan against one another.

"We won't have a lot of the offense or the defense in," Cutcliffe said. "We keep it pretty vanilla."

As in non-fat, low-calorie vanilla light.

With the exception a trick play -- one of which fans likely chose for the first play of the day -- Tennessee will spend its final spring scrimmage just playing football.

"We've got a lot of people to look at still and a lot of people to get on the field," Cutcliffe said. "We're not trying to make it a mentally complicated thing for them. Let them go out there and compete and have fun and just see who will compete and who will play the game with great intensity and great effort where you don't have anybody confused."

Cutcliffe will be watching plenty of players from his perch in the press box.

Foremost will be the play of his wide receivers, who had their worst performance of the spring during last Saturday's scrimmage.

Then there's an offensive line that has been shuffled around this spring.

The defensive line has been a point of emphasis this spring, as well. Demonte' Bolden and Dan Williams have shown plenty of improvement at tackle.

So has UT's secondary, which lost all but one starter from last season.

But neither Cutcliffe nor Chavis is focused on drawing up the perfect game plan.

Beyond just letting their players play, there's always plenty of eyes in the stands, as well as those who will see replays of the game broadcast on cable all summer long.

"I don't know who's going to be there watching or what, when you have open admissions," Cutcliffe said. "I'm sure there'll be some friends of some friends of mine who coach in this league here. You're just not going to show a lot of things. Plus it's on television. People with TiVo and DVR and everything like that, people are going to have it."

As a result, Cutcliffe said, the Vols won't show much of their no-huddle offense. That probably means Lucas Taylor won't take any snaps at quarterback, and UT's backs will stay in the backfield, too.

UT coach Phillip Fulmer prefers a simple spring game plan for more pragmatic reasons.

"I watched Auburn's game (held March 22)," Fulmer said. "I can't tell you much about what they did. It's simple stuff."

"I don't think it makes a hill of beans. After the first game, they're pretty much going to see what you're doing with personnel anyway. The films are out so much.

"The reason we are so simple in the spring game is you've got mix-and-match people. It's almost impossible to have any consistency if we're turning the defense loose to do anything they want to against a team that probably won't see the field for another year."

Saturday's scrimmage, albeit a vanilla one, will be most fans' last chance to watch the team until the season opener against California in September.

The first-team offense and second-team defense will square off against the first-team defense and second-team offense to help balance the sides.

And it's still football.

"It's going to be fun to watch. I'm not trying to run fans off. I want them to come," Cutcliffe said. "I think they'll see plenty. We're going to throw it around and run it, and the defense is going to chase the ball and hit and compete. It'll be a competitive game."

Fan Day Info: Today's activities will begin with a Vol Walk at 11:30 a.m., along the usual route down Peyton Manning Pass to gate 21A.

Gates open at 11:45 for Fan Day, where players and coaches will sign autographs on the field beginning at noon.

Admission is free both for Fan Day and the Orange and White game.

Fans should use gates 13, 20, 21 and 25 to enter the stadium, and the first 7,500 fans receive a "fan pack."