GREENVILLE, S.C. — It wasn’t too long ago when the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football team’s offense had questions swirling around it, and one of those stood out above the others.
“What’s wrong with it?”
While the Mocs may not have provided all the answers with their regular season halfway over, the offense is at least starting to get back on the right track.
After scoring a total of 27 points during the team’s 0-3 start — road losses to Football Bowl Subdivision programs Tennessee and Georgia State before a Southern Conference setback against Mercer at Finley Stadium — the Mocs have topped 40 points in two of their past three games, including 41 in Saturday’s 31-point victory at Furman. And after averaging 56.3 yards on the ground in the first three games, the Mocs (3-3, 2-1) have topped 100 in each of the past three and had a season-high 199 against the Paladins (2-4, 1-1), who won the SoCon title last season before reaching the Football Championship Subdivision quarterfinals.
Improving the offense was a point of emphasis during UTC’s bye week that followed the 10-3 loss to Mercer in mid-September. Three wins with averages of 34.3 points and 469 yards per game since then suggest at least some of those improvements were made by the Mocs, who are No. 23 in the Stats Perform FCS Top 25 and could move up in Monday’s rankings before a two-game homestand against Wofford (3-3, 1-2) and Virginia Military Institute (0-6, 0-2).