Worth reading 8.22.18: the Idiot Optimist’s Guide to the 2018 season

If you read only one thing about the Vols today . . .

. . . make it the 2018 edition of Will’s ever-awesome Idiot Optimist’s Guide:

• The Idiot Optimist’s Guide to the 2018 Season

Other Vols stuff worth reading today

1. Rucker: Older, wiser Jonathan Kongbo easier to believe in for Tennessee Vols football, via 247Sports
2. Why Somebody Must Stand Up in Tennessee’s Quarterback Derby, via Gameday on Rocky Top
3. Tennessee Vols Baylen Buchanan confident talented secondary, via 247Sports
4. WVU football closing in on 2018 season-opener against Tennessee, via 247Sports
5. Tennessee DBs eager to play in Pruitt’s ‘in-your-face’ defense, via 247Sports
6. Tennessee Vols Football: Injury bug keeps biting at West Virginia, via 247Sports
7. The Fumble that kept Vols’ national title run on track almost never happened, via Saturday Down South
8. Tennessee Vols Football: Phillip Fulmer remembers emotional final moments of 1998 title game, via 247Sports

Behind the paywalls

• Tennessee Mailbag: What is the impact of Jeremy Pruitt…, via The Athletic
• Tennessee Vols football practice observations, via 247Sports