Read: Expectations for Vols’ defense rising

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

. . . make it this, from Gameday on Rocky Top:

• Could Tennessee have one of college football’s best defenses?

Other Vols stuff worth reading today

1. SEC Announces Game Times and TV Info for Select Games – University of Tennessee Athletics, via UTSports
2. Pruitt expects Vols’ culture to be asset in unusual season, via 247Sports
3. In My Own Words feat. Jauan Jennings – Dreaming of This Moment, via 49ers.com
4. Vols Open Week Three of Preseason Practice – University of Tennessee Athletics, via UTSports
5. Why Henry To’o To’o feels equipped to lead Tennessee football defense, via KnoxNews
6. Pruitt on Tennessee’s social injustice march: ‘That was one day’, via the Times Free Press
7. Pruitt: Tennessee will play both true freshman running backs, via 247Sports
8. Two veterans on defensive line standing out to Pruitt, via 247Sports
9. 2020 College Football TV Schedule: Week 1, via Gameday on Rocky Top

Behind the paywalls

• Previewing the SEC: Is another offensive awakening in store to alter the race?, via The Athletic