One of the benefits of being a Top 15 team: pointing out weaknesses in victory! How have your conversations about the Pitt game started the last couple of days? Something like, “Great win…we’ve got some work to do!”? Me too! Josh Heupel’s Monday press conference began that way as well. […]

The Vols are 2-0, Josh Heupel has his second ranked win, and we’re off and running in the Top 15. Here’s our Expected Win Total Machine for this week. Will the community total climb to 8.5 or higher? That’s up to you! The Vols are #15 in the AP Poll […]

Including whew, but also, woo! We did, “Oh no, are we bad again?”. Tennessee’s first three drives went three-and-out, three-and-out, and turnover on downs. Pitt led 10-0 and had 1st-and-10 at the Tennessee 21. That possession ended with Trevon Flowers’ end zone interception, the first of a bananas number of […]

It’s #17 Pittsburgh vs #24 Tennessee, and I find myself elated to see that number next to our name. In 2006 and 2007, the Vols played a total of ten ranked vs ranked games. In the fifteen years since, Saturday will make just our ninth such occasion. The other eight […]

A year ago, we left the Pitt game wondering if the Vols would continue to unleash their tight ends in Josh Heupel’s offense. It turned out to be a false positive: Princeton Fant and Jacob Warren combined for nine catches against the Panthers, but ended the season with just 34, […]

Leading the conversation at church yesterday morning: “Uh oh, Florida’s good again!” And while we don’t have to solve that problem this week, it does go in the math of this week’s expected win total machine. Will the Gators be the week’s biggest mover among our opinions of Tennessee’s opponents? […]

There’s a psychological component to looking up and seeing those orange V-O-L-S letters, I’ll tell you that much for sure. They last appeared in The Year of Our Lord 1998, we all file away in the back of our minds and the front of our hearts. But nevermind going back […]

This is my first football season back in Knox County since 2005. I dropped my son off at pre-K this morning in a building full of orange. Life is pretty great these days. Life should be pretty great for Tennessee tonight, even three years removed from Georgia State making it […]

It’s game week, and this Vol squad enters the season with a chance to produce the program’s best year since our last division title in 2007. In the 15 years since, that honor currently belongs to the 2015 team. They didn’t have the emotional highs of Bristol, Florida, and a […]

This week we fired up our Expected Win Total Machine for the first time this fall, looking to establish a baseline for fan expectations going into the year. The initial results from week zero: our community projects the Vols to win 8.03 regular season games. It’s an almost identical number […]