With the start of the University of Tennessee’s spring football practice now just 13 days away, it seems somewhat fitting to begin to look at the Volunteers’ 2020 season and what might be expected of Jeremy Pruitt’s third Big Orange team.
At least it seems a little more appropriate than this time last week, thanks to Charlotte coach Will Healy, the former Boyd Buchanan star, putting the Vols in the Top 20 during an interview with our Sports department’s David Paschall.
“It’s not that hard figuring out what they have coming back,” said Healy, whose 49ers will open the season inside Neyland Stadium on Sept. 5. “It’s a top-20 team in the country, and we’re playing them at their place.”
And that they should be. But what if they could become better than that? Top 15 maybe? Top 10? College Football Playoff good?
OK, forgive me, Big Orange Nation. All this rain has waterlogged my brain.