The Vols are in the middle of The Gauntlet, but so far, many of their national stat rankings are holding up pretty well.

Time to update your projected win total for the Vols. Use our GRT Expected Win Total Machine to calculate your own updated projection.

A few more observations on this fine Sunday: This was Tennessee’s biggest win as an underdog since Florida in 2001. Covers.com has the closing line from that night in The Swamp at +16.5. The line closed at +14.5 yesterday, just ahead of other classic upsets like 2003 Miami (+12.5) and […]

After a late-game collapse made a close Georgia loss a virtual runaway a couple of weeks ago, Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt nearly was moved to tears talking about how much better his guys were getting when talking in the postgame press conference. Perhaps expecting a little more emotion from Pruitt, […]

So I allowed myself to dream this week, and went back to read what we wrote when Butch Jones and the 2013 Vols beat #11 South Carolina in his first season. Much has changed since then: the full buy-in language of five years ago reflected the exhaustion of trying to […]

It’s been ten years since the Vols played at Auburn, one of the best arguments for policy change in SEC scheduling. We faced the Tigers every year from 1956-1991, the series becoming Tennessee’s second-biggest rivalry during that time. Now we have to wait a decade to travel to each other’s […]

We looked at all of Tennessee’s and Auburn’s national statistical rankings and identified the Vols’ opportunities and threats for this weekend.

We’ve analyzed the numbers and comps so far this year, last year’s numbers and comps, and added in a big, fat gut feeling to come up with a statsy preview prediction for the Tennessee-Auburn game this weekend.

So the ingredients are there, right? Sleepy 11:00 am local kickoff, preseason Top 10 team sitting at a disappointing 4-2, offense looking sluggish…plus the underdog Vols coming off a bye, new head coach with plenty of experience against this particular opponent looking for his first big win. We can talk […]