Jeremy Pruitt is already off to a good start as a first-year coach at Tennessee, and he’s accomplishing things not seen across the SEC among active coaches, and not done in Knoxville since the early 1990s.

With the win over Kentucky, Pruitt became the only head coach of the 14 current SEC head coaches to have two wins over ranked opponents in his first regular season as a head coach. Pruitt also is the first Tennessee head coach with multiple wins over a ranked team in his first season since Phillip Fulmer in 1993.

UK was ranked No. 12, while the earlier win over Auburn, 30-24, came when the Tigers were ranked No. 21 on Oct. 13.

This is the second season since 2008 that Tennessee has two wins over ranked teams. The last one came in 2013 over No. 11 South Carolina. And Tennessee hadn’t beaten a ranked Kentucky team since 1977. The last time the Vols beat a ranked team in November was in 2003 against No. 6 Miami.

The Vols are 5-5 overall and 2-4 in the SEC, and are set to play host to Missouri this week.