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Updated projected win totals for the Vols after Week 2

Joel Hollingsworth

The Vols did what they had to do this weekend against an outmanned ETSU Buccaneers team, and you have to give them credit for taking care of business. To be sure, there are still several obvious issues and many unanswered questions, but much of the new data this week was positive and increased hope for the future to a degree.

Meanwhile, former Vols opponent West Virginia blew out Youngstown State, which is also a positive. It’s not much more so than what they were expected to do, though, so while it’s a net positive, it’s not much of one.

As far as future opponents go, UTEP confirmed its tune-up status, and Florida’s loss to Kentucky made it look vulnerable to decent competition. The Gamecocks proved that they’re not yet an elite SEC team, yet we still don’t know how much of a gap there is between them and the rest of the SEC East. The Kentucky Wildcats must be taken seriously, and everybody else pretty much did what you expected of them.

On balance, it wouldn’t be accurate to call it a rosy picture for the Vols moving forward into the 2018 season, but it is indeed better than it seemed to be after Week 1.

And with that, my new expected win total after Week 2 is 5.45. Use the form below to calculate yours and post it in the comments below the post.

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Explanations are below, but here’s the updated table of my expectations for the season:

Tennessee Volunteers currently

The Vols’ past opponents

West Virginia Mountaineers

Current record: 2-0 (0-0), 1st in Big 12

East Tennessee State Buccaneers

Current record: 1-1 (0-0), 3rd in Southern

UTEP Miners

Current record: 0-2 (0-0), 1st in C-USA – West

Florida Gators

Current record: 1-1 (0-1), 3rd in SEC – East

Georgia Bulldogs

Current record: 2-0 (1-0), 1st in SEC – East

Auburn Tigers

Current record: 2-0 (0-0), 1st in SEC – West

Big game coming up for Auburn this week as they take on #12 LSU. We’ll know a lot more about them after that.

Alabama Crimson Tide

Current record: 2-0 (0-0), 1st in SEC – West

South Carolina Gamecocks

Current record: 1-1 (0-1), 3rd in SEC – East

Charlotte 49ers

Current record: 1-1 (0-0), 2nd in C-USA – East

Kentucky Wildcats

Current record: 2-0 (1-0), 1st in SEC – East

Missouri Tigers

Current record: 2-0 (0-0), 3rd in SEC – East

Vanderbilt Commodores

Current record: 2-0 (0-0), 3rd in SEC – East

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