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Oh, look! It’s actual news about actual football! Reunited, and it feels so good.

If you do only one thing regarding the Vols today . . .

. . . use our Expected Win Total Machine to set a benchmark for the season:

• The GRT Expected Win Total Machine: 2020 Preseason | Gameday on Rocky Top

Other Vols stuff worth reading today

1. Odds released for every Week 1 SEC football game, via 247Sports
2. Vols file appeal after Cade Mays has NCAA transfer waiver denied, via 247Sports
3. Trey Smith starts #FreeCadeMays movement, via 247Sports
4. Jay Bilas slams NCAA over Vols OL Cade Mays’ denied waiver, via 247Sports
5. Pruitt details Tennessee’s latest COVID-19 test numbers, via 247Sports
6. Jeremy Banks reinstated to Tennessee football program, via 247Sports
7. Veteran Vols DB ruled out for 2020 season, via 247Sports

Behind the paywalls

• Staples: The SEC just showed us what we’ve been missing, and it’s tantalizing – The Athletic, via The Athletic

If you read only one thing about the Vols today . . .

. . . make it this, from Will, so you know what to root for when the schedule is revealed this evening at 7:00:

• What does a balanced schedule for Tennessee look like? | Gameday on Rocky Top

Other Vols stuff worth reading today

1. Football Opens Practice Monday, 2020 Schedule To Be Unveiled – University of Tennessee Athletics, via UTSports
2. 2021 five-star PG Kennedy Chandler commits to Tennessee, via 247Sports
3. Rucker: Barnes making Vols hoops what it always should have been, via 247Sports
4. Sources — SEC football coaches irked by added opponents, via ESPN
5. College football schedule takeaways – SEC additions, the Notre Dame experiment and more, via ESPN
6. The inside story of college football’s wildest week ever, via ESPN

Behind the paywalls

• ‘We support our boys’: Tennessee football parents weigh in on returning to play – The Athletic, via The Athletic
• SEC task force member Q&A: ‘I think our teams can absolutely get through this’ – The Athletic, via The Athletic

If you read only one thing about college football today . . .

. . . make it this, from ESPN:

• The state of college football leadership in 2020 — The NCAA, a commissioner and more

Other college sports stuff worth reading today

1. UT clarifies status of tailgating plans for this season, via 247Sports
2. NCAA president: No fall sports championships, including FCS football, in 2020, via CBS Sports
3. Mark Emmert Has Announced There Will Be No 2020 Fall NCAA Championships, via Sports Illustrated
4. Could Fulkerson be Vols’ next SEC Player of the Year candidate?, via 247Sports
5. Tennessee football storylines that will define Jeremy Pruitt’s Year 3, via KnoxNews

Behind the paywalls

• Mandel: A revised and reduced preseason college football top 25 – The Athletic, via The Athletic
• Rexrode: Why a spring football season could be exactly what the Vols need – The Athletic, via The Athletic

If you read only one thing about college football today . . .

. . . make it this, from 247Sports:

• Rucker: Big Ten, Pac-12 just altered college football for years

Other college football stuff worth reading today

1. What a spring college football season could — and should — look like, via ESPN
2. Big Ten, Pac-12 have sealed college football’s fate, via KnoxNews
3. What’s next for SEC, Tennessee after Big Ten & Pac-12 decisions, via 247Sports
4. Wiedmer: Could UK coaching loss become huge gain for UT hoops? | Chattanooga Times Free Press, via the Times Free Press

Behind the paywalls

• The SEC: It had reasons for starting late, and those reasons haven’t changed – The Athletic, via The Athletic
• Tennessee mailbag: The hope of an SEC season and how the decision is made – The Athletic, via The Athletic

If you read only one thing about college football today . . .

. . . make it this, from 247Sports:

• Rucker: What are you doing, Big Ten? And why?

Other college football stuff worth reading today

1. Tennessee’s Trey Smith, who had lung issues, wants to play college football season, via ESPN
2. Tennessee QB intends to transfer, via 247Sports
3. Five VFLs Continue Action in NBA Bubble – University of Tennessee Athletics, via UTSports
4. Big Ten, Pac-12 expected to vote Tuesday on whether to move forward with 2020 college football season – CBSSports.com, via CBS Sports
5. Nick Saban says Crimson Tide football players safer at Alabama than ‘running around at home’, via ESPN
6. Power Five leaders met Sunday to discuss viability of 2020 college football season, talks continue Monday – CBSSports.com, via CBS Sports

If you read only one thing about college football today . . .

. . . make it this, from ESPN:

• Sources — Power 5 conferences talking about no fall football

Other crazy college football stuff you’d never thought you’d see

1. How the MAC fall sports shutdown will impact college football across the country, via ESPN
2. College football stars hold video call to further unite, issue statement, via ESPN
3. SEC football protocols include mask requirement, two tests per week, via ESPN
4. Several Vols join in on CFB’s #WeWantToPlay player movement, via 247Sports

And yet, we’re all still the backup quarterback, you know, getting ready just in case . . .

1. Is this Tennessee’s most difficult schedule ever, via Gameday on Rocky Top
2. 2020 SEC Conference Football Power Index | ESPN, via ESPN
3. 2020-21 Vols have ‘potential to do something very, very special’, via 247Sports

Behind the paywalls

• Kendall: Predicting the results for the new, and expanded,SEC schedule – The Athletic, via The Athletic
• A thankless SEC scheduling job won’t get any thank-yous from Tennessee – The Athletic, via The Athletic

Must reads about the Vols today . . .

. . . make it these, from ESPN and CBS:

• 2020 College Football Rankings for Preseason | ESPN
• Coaches Poll top 25 reactions: Oklahoma and Tennessee are underrated while Texas is overrated, via CBS Sports

Other Vols stuff worth reading today

1. Frustrations growing for college athletic directors amid the coronavirus pandemic, via ESPN
2. How college football’s scheduling decisions came together, via ESPN

Behind the paywalls

• What lies ahead for Trey Smith? Assessing Tennessee’s NFL Draft prospects, via The Athletic