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When we get excited about the 2020 Vols, the conversation usually centers on the offensive line, or the individual breakout potential of sophomores Eric Gray and Henry To’o To’o. But one of our favorite big picture metrics heavily favors the Tennessee defense.
It’s a weird year, but hey, there’s college football this week! For the first time in the history of our contest, prepare to pick every FBS vs FBS game on the schedule this week! Our free picks pool is back at Fun Office Pools. If you’ve played in previous years, […]
Historical poll data will become meaningless in week two, with no Big Ten and Pac-12 teams around to fill out the nation’s best 25 teams in a given week. Take them out of the preseason AP poll today, and the Vols would be 16th. But whatever perception is worth, we […]
We fired up our Expected Win Total Machine this week as soon as the SEC released the new 2020 schedule. If you haven’t already, you can go there and put in your win probabilities for every game on Tennessee’s new schedule, and the machine will give you how many games […]
Use the GRT Expected Win Total Machine to accurately assess your expectations heading into the 2020 season.
“Not one with Auburn and Texas A&M,” you might say. But with those two added to the docket, the order of opponents becomes much more important: if you’re playing five preseason Top 15 teams for only the second time ever, you don’t want to play any of them in consecutive […]
Three weeks ago we had some fun with post-pandemic fantasy booking, creating a 32-team college football super division. It was a fun exercise to pass the late-July time, but only fun because Tennessee would easily make any cut of 32: if you want to know who’s most likely to be […]
There’s no historical context for a 10-game SEC season in the modern era, so sure, you can make the argument that this kind of gauntlet, absent any FCS cupcakes or mid-major challengers, is harder than anything else the Vols have faced before. But as the major talking point is how […]
We said for weeks if the Vols added one of Auburn/LSU/Texas A&M and one Mississippi school, in any combination, Tennessee would be getting a fair deal. Turns out, not so much: the Vols travel to Auburn and host Texas A&M (for the first time! in front of few/no fans!). Our […]
While we’re waiting for the real thing, here’s my best attempt at a mock 10-game league schedule. The guiding principles: The two new opponents are added based on strength of schedule. I used preseason SP+ data to put each division in four tiers: SEC East 1: Florida, Georgia SEC East […]