tOfficial '2015 Tennessee Volunteers' Football Thread

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Georgia Tech and Tennessee expected to play in 2017 Chick-fil-A Kickoff | CollegeFootballTalk

 

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Butch Jones: Vols have 'a lot of positive momentum' - GoVolsXtra Story

 

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Just 481 more days.

 

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Toughest stretch: Tennessee Volunteers - SEC Blog - ESPN

 

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Spring Wrap: Tennessee Vols football defensive tackles

 

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Have you applied for the Tennessee position? You're a natural...

 

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Have you applied for the Tennessee position? You're a natural...

 

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Mosley 'going to be an offensive lineman'

 

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Juco CB Justin Martin eager to get started with Tennessee Vols

 

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Tennessee coach Butch Jones visits 2016 game site in Bristol - SEC Blog - ESPN

Well more than a year remains before his Tennessee team takes the ... track ... at Bristol Motor Speedway, but Butch Jones said Monday that Sept. 10, 2016, will be here before you know it.

Jones visited the monstrous racetrack for a Big Orange Caravan stop 480 days before next year's game against Virginia Tech, which could feature the largest crowd ever to watch a football game.

Tennessee has already sold its allotment of 40,000 tickets, and as many as 150,000 fans might pack into the monstrous track to watch.

"I'll guarantee you in a year there'll be a million people claim they were here," BMS general manager Jerry Caldwell told Knoxville News-Sentinel columnist Mike Strange.

The logistics of the event will be interesting. There is no football field set up yet, and the track's configuration is obviously not designed to be as intimate as a football stadium -- even one that is as large, by football standards, as Tennessee's Neyland Stadium.

But "The Battle at Bristol" will be must-see viewing for the football and racing fans who will flock to next year's game at the track that sits near the border between the two states. The setting, the location and the teams involved will make this one of the most unique games in SEC history.

 

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Potential 2015 sleeper: Tennessee Volunteers - SEC Blog - ESPN

This week on the SEC blog we're taking a look at one player on each team who could be a sleeper in 2015, a player who might not be getting a lot of buzz now but could have a significant impact on his team's fortunes this season.

Tennessee

Potential sleeper: Evan Berry, safety

Why: If the name sounds familiar, it should. Evan is the younger brother of former Tennessee star Eric Berry, who left quite a legacy during his time in Knoxville. Nobody is expecting that type of production from Evan, at least not yet, but he hasn't even been on campus two full years and is already turning heads. He appeared in 13 games as a freshman last season, working primarily on special teams. In fact, he finished second in the SEC in kickoff return average (29.5 yards per return). But he’s not on here because of special teams; he's here because he's expected to play a bigger role in the secondary this season. The Volunteers are deep at safety with starters Brian Randolph and LaDarrell McNeil back, along with rising sophomore Todd Kelly Jr. waiting in the wings, but after this spring, it’s going to be difficult for the coaches to keep Berry off the field. Butch Jones singled him out after one of the scrimmages as a player who "really showed out," and one of his teammates said he's starting to look like his older brother. Is there a better compliment than that?