I know I am a Homer but Heupel took a 3 win team that lost 30 players to the transfer portal and their recruiting class to 7-5 being a few plays short of beating 10-2 Ole Piss and 10-2 Pitt (playing for an ACC championship. He took the most depleted roster in the country and improved every unit. He beats Beamer for COY

I am terrified yall will make a run at Hugh Freeze. His time wandering the dessert in isolation is coming to an end.

We have seen several current successful head coaches suffer from those same issues the first go round. Lane Kiffen is the first to come to mind, but Heupel and Ogeron both had to reinvent themselves after failed stints at Ole Miss and Oklahoma (OC). Lane had the biggest growing up to do and his new found maturity has made hime successful at ole miss where he struggled at Tennessee and then failed at USC as a young HC buried in a play sheet. Not saying Tom Herman will be able to find the same success but coaches have to reinvent themselves all the time and can come out more successful than before.

Davonte Gaines and English at George Mason is a great story

the ideal situation for everyone IMO

Good, I hope you all suffer

I agree but also interesting: Smart was 7-5 in his first year, Heupel Will likely be 7-5 with remaining wins against South Alabama and Vanderbilt

Kinda Surprised there isn't more love for Kennedy Chandler but this seems like a strong PG year in the SEC. He has looked impressive in the scrimmage games

you are really excited to lose at the grocery store you call a stadium

stats on tennessee passing defense are misleading considered they have played 3 of the top 4 offenses and 3 of the top 5 heisman favorites (pitt, Ole miss, Bama)

I can't wait for Auburn to beat Alabama and lock them out of the SEC championship and the Playoff

Georgia Michigan State Cincinatti Oklahoma Alabama Oregon Ohio State Wake Forest Michigan Notre Dame. I do not respect Oklahoma and I don't know what to do with Michigan and Wake Forest

How many of them were Ole Miss fans throwing stuff from the upper deck ABOVE the UT Student section?

2 star NFL uncles, I think you mean to say 2 HOF NFL quarterbacks, one of whom is the greatest to ever play the game, and the best overall student of the game.

You expect me to believe the grown man that did not know what asparagus was has knowledge of a secret cabal within UT athletics committing major NCAA violations? The dude did not know we got new orange pants despite walking by the display outside of his office FOR MONTHS

Are you embarrassed by the Alabama fan that MURDERED someone over the A&M game? Or the one that put his genitals and pees on na LSU fan in 2012? Or Harvey Updyke who poisoned the Auburn trees? all of those seem more noteworthy than some light littering.

The energy surrounding the program after Missouri feels like actual momentum and not the fake momentum we had under Pruitt. Vols win in a blowout during the blackout and get ready to face the prodigal son next week under the lights. 49-10

You sound alot like a yankee for an Alabama fan (a deep south school). Did you get your first Jersey back in 09 at the local walmart?

Does he mean Greg?

Doesn't Mizzou have one more recently than Georgia?

I have seen articles about Tenn's 5 most gut wrenching Florida Losses, Tenn's top 10 worst losses of the last 10 years, Tenn's notable losses since firing Fulmer, etc. I sympathize with you because its tough being kicked while you're down.

Shocked to see Kansas was not winless. Perhaps the Rockchalks are on the come up (as compared to recent seasons)

Wow he took the 2.5 point favorite by 3 points. Real bold.

Pruitt lost to Florida by an average of 23 points. If Tennessee can beat the 20.5 point spread I will consider it a step forward.

Penalties cost us, but that was a first down instead of a 4th and inches and if the line judge had been even with the ball like he was supposed to be it would have been called correctly. Also baffling was the kick 6 called back for offsetting penalties after the change of possession. Vols earned plenty of their penalties, but those two calls were baffling.

Can't wait for Emory Jones to get benched after Alabama and for the Florida backup to have a career day against Tennessee the next week. A tale as old as time.

agree, Levis is underrated

Levis was impressive, more impressive than his rank. It is very obvious that some QB's got passes for being inconsistent or underwhelming because of the Logo on their helmet while others did not.

First game in a completely new system for everyone. Is there room for improvement? Sure, but I am not hitting the panic button.

we won by 32 points in a game that was never in doubt while keeping our play call vanilla to not give Pitt any film. Our fan base is toxic.