If you only read two things as a Vols fan today . . .

. . . make it these, from SEC Country and The Athletic:

  1. Top 10 Tennessee football, men’s basketball moments since 1998, via SEC Country
  2. The game within a game: Secrets of a college football signal stealer, via The Athletic

The SEC Country piece is Mike Griffith’s last for the shuttering SEC Country, and is a nostalgic trip down memory lane (with video) of Mike’s time covering the Vols.

The article on signal-stealing is from Bruce Feldman. The Athletic is a subscription-only site, but if you have access, you can’t miss this piece. It’s a really interesting look at the strategy of deciphering your opponent’s coded communications.

Other Vols stuff worth reading today

  1. UT recruiting rankings didn’t match won-loss record under Jones, via Jimmy Hyams at WNML
  2. Former Vol Josh Smith admits frustrations with Butch Jones, via 247Sports
  3. Coming to ‘real terms’ helped Brian Maurer land at Tennessee, via 247Sports
  4. Admiral Schofield makes SI’s top 60 prospects for 2019 NBA Draft, via 247Sports
  5. Vols focusing on difference between ‘nice run’ and ‘great program’, via 247Sports
  6. Second-Year Surge: Tennessee DE/LB Deandre Johnson, via 247Sports
  7. Second-Year Surge: Tennessee safety Theo Jackson, via 247Sports
  8. Second-Year Surge: Tennessee LB Will Ignont, via 247Sports
  9. Offensive Linemen breakdown The Opening Finals 2018, via 247Sports
  10. 78 of the greatest college football GIFs ever, via SB Nation

Behind the paywalls

  • Top ranked offensive tackle Darnell Wright talks recruiting at The Opening Finals, via 247Sports
  • Vols offer Taulia Tagovailoa opportunity to ‘write my own story’, via 247Sports
  • Vols one of four teams ‘pushing Georgia’ for five-star WR Jadon Haselwood, via 247Sports
  • Vols, Gamecocks ‘above all the other schools’ for four-star CB Jaydon Hill, via 247Sports