The Vols are in the middle of The Gauntlet, but so far, many of their national stat rankings are holding up pretty well.
Offense
When they pass, they are good at it, but the Vols aren’t really putting up a lot of passing yards. Some of that is likely due to a steadfast devotion to failing on first downs. I’m wondering how many of those tackles for loss allowed come on those first downs.
Defense
Not yet elite, but not bad, either.
Special Teams
Turnovers and Penalties
If there is good news on the TFL allowed front, last year we were averaging fewer TFL’s allowed per game but more yards given up: 7.4 per game at an average loss of -4.1, as opposed to 8 per game at an average loss of -2.9 this year. Seems like there are more runs for -1 this year, but fewer passes behind the line for -4.
Great info. Good to know.
By my count (sandwich in one hand at lunchtime), we have 22 TFLs on 1st down, not counting an alarming number of no-gain, 1 yd, and 2 yd runs. That’s almost half…not good. Looks like a pretty significant portion of our 1st downs too.