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Tennessee HC Josh Heupel spoke with media across the #SEC on Wednesday during the weekly SEC coaches teleconference. I asked him what has been the most difficult part of coaching this season. Heupel: "The hardest thing you encounter is the turnover on your roster, with the transfer portal and NIL, all of those things. I think that's the biggest thing that has changed in the sport. And I think in part because of that, you know, keeping your team together during the duration of the season, the focus of your team, week in, week out, and really as much as anything, day in, day out, to be your best by game day, is the biggest thing that, you know, you got to do a great job of.”

Throwback to this date in 1989: Tennessee’s Carl Pickens with a 93-yard kickoff return for a touchdown at LSU. UT won that game 45-39 and finished the season with an 11-1 record — sharing the SEC championship with Alabama and Auburn.

Defense put up a MASTERCLASS in the 2nd half vs Tennessee, holding the Vols to just 3 points 👏🐔

We were 2.5 point underdogs at SC. There’s no such things as teams you should beat. Everyone is closer than ever. With that said, we have 4 winnable games in front of us out of the bye and you win those you’re literally competing for championships. The penalty thing is overplayed.

Tennessee football fans are understandably suspicious of the refereeing in yesterday's game. Three touchdown passes wiped out by penalties. Here's why we're suspicious: most of us have played and/or watched football for decades. We recognize that penalties often affect your team. But what happened yesterday has never happened in college football history. Never.

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The 90s were an anomaly because of our “recruiting network” and the landscape of the sport Anybody who doesn’t realize this isn’t a serious person Take out the anomaly of the 90s and TN averages 8-4 with some 10 win seasons sprinkled in That’s what we are historically

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Another great rendition of the National Anthem at the World Series tonight! And unlike the the American hating lesbians in the WNBA and LeBron James, the Major league Baseball players all stood still and gave respect to our Nation Anthem! 🇺🇸

You can’t say “all hail Josh Heupel” after a third-straight home win over Alabama then resort to “man, this guy sucks” one week later. Self-inflicted wounds cost the Vols, and officiating and late-game play-calling didn’t help. Figure it out, fix the mistakes and move on.

I think we need to recalibrate our idea of what a good CFB team is. Bc the gap between No. 1 and No. 40 has never been smaller. It’s not 2015 anymore.

Not including today’s games. Since Josh Heupel took over in 2021, no SEC program has committed more penalties. Tennessee: 529 penalties in 72 games
Ole Miss: 523 (2nd) Georgia has played SEVEN more games and has 143 fewer penalties.