If you want a glimpse of what the Vols hope to look like in a couple years, wide receiver and linebacker are the best place to look: proven multi-year starters with NFL potential, and elite incoming freshmen who might play but don’t have to be the answer. Tennessee’s two highest-rated […]
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FPI Wants You to Believe
Vegas likes somewhere between 6.5 and 7 wins for Tennessee this fall, a good starting point for expectations. Advanced stats like S&P+ and FPI turned some heads earlier in the off-season when their initial projections slotted the Vols at 21st and 15th, respectively. But those are power rankings, which don’t […]
Finding the Rhythm in Tennessee’s Schedule
The Fourth of July always feels like the turning point in college football’s long summer away. Tennessee’s basketball conversation lasted longer than ever this year, and will continue in some ways with multiple Vols in the NBA Summer League over the next several days. But now, everyone’s focus starts to […]
SEC divisional champs since 2010, using only divisional results
It may look and smell like sour grapes from a long-suffering Tennessee fan, but giving cross-divisional results the same weight as divisional results when ranking teams within a division makes no sense, no matter the messenger.
After Guarantano, Which Vol is Hardest to Replace?
You always start with the quarterback when doing the ominous summer piece on who you can least afford to lose. And Guarantano fits that bill, with unproven options behind him and untapped potential in front of him. It’s more fun to think of this conversation in terms of replacement value. […]
The Vols’ 2017 coaching candidates: Where are they now?
Here’s a list of all of the 2017 coaching candidates, where they ended up and how they fared last season.
Headed Towards a Big Cookout Weekend, Vols Combining Faith in Evals with Elite National Recruiting
As we move towards the final June weekend before a month-long dead period, things certainly have changed a lot since we previewed a consequential month for Tennessee’s 2020 class. So far during June the Vols have picked up three commitments – running the total to nine – from OL Javontez […]
We’ve Made This Climb Before: What the Early 80’s Can Teach 2019
Tennessee is 67-70 in the last 11 years, a longer sub-.500 run in the modern era than we can find for any of the other 15 winningest programs in college football history. A more concrete way to look at it: the Vols haven’t finished a season in the AP Top […]
The new Vols we are most likely to see this fall
We’ve ranked Tennessee’s newcomers by their opportunity for playing time this fall, based on positional opportunity, their own talent level, and the talent level of the guys already there.
Are we underrating or overrating the importance of Guarantano staying healthy?
There are plenty of scenarios we wouldn’t enjoy this fall – no playmakers emerge on the defensive line, freshmen don’t emerge to build hope for the future – but it’s probably fair to say nothing would impact Tennessee’s ceiling like losing Jarrett Guarantano for any length of time. Some of […]