In Tennessee's last two football games against Pittsburgh and Tennessee Tech, the Volunteers haven't connected on a deep throw and have received very little production from their running backs.

Alabama coach Nick Saban hasn't won six national championships with the Crimson Tide by developing the best 15- or 30-minute teams in college football.

Alabama's first test of its Southeastern Conference title defense was quite demanding, and the Crimson Tide's second step is shaping up the same way.

There were two reasons in particular for the preseason hype surrounding the UTC football program: the defense and the running game.

No matter the final numbers posted on the scoreboards at Tennessee's Neyland Stadium and Kentucky's Kroger Field on Saturday afternoon, the football teams at Tennessee Tech and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga were perceived as big winners within their athletic departments.

For the second straight season, UTC held a fourth-quarter lead against a Football Bowl Subdivision opponent.

Despite Tennessee's runaway win, Volunteers football coach Josh Heupel was far from pleased with the performance of his offense Saturday against Tennessee Tech.

Tennessee is assured of no longer ranking last nationally in turnover margin.

The second-ranked Georgia Bulldogs are 3-0 overall, 1-0 in the Southeastern Conference and playing with such high defensive standards that even giving up one touchdown is enough to frustrate them these days.

Bryce Young had heard all about the Swamp. The Alabama sophomore knew it would be deafening at times and difficult, if not impossible, for a visiting quarterback to communicate on Steve Spurrier Field.

When he was 4 years old, Giovanni Reviere really didn't want to play football.

Tennessee's two longest runs this football season have been reeled off by quarterbacks Joe Milton and Hendon Hooker.

Tennessee first-year football coach Josh Heupel didn't take long Thursday when asked where he wanted to see the most improvement between last weekend's 41-34 home loss to Pittsburgh and this Saturday's expected mismatch against Tennessee Tech inside Neyland Stadium.

Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops quickly dismissed any notion of this weekend's home game against UTC being a "breather" for his Wildcats.

Who doesn't want to see Saturday afternoon's clash between Alabama and Florida in the Swamp?

Tennessee fifth-year senior defensive back Theo Jackson is having quite the breakout season for the Volunteers. Just don't label him as any kind of overnight success.

With a dominating win already secured on Sept. 7, 2013, Rusty Wright - then the linebackers coach for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - saw then-head coach Russ Huesman do something he hardly ever did.

From Joe Milton's overthrows to Milton's injury to Hendon Hooker's respectable performance last weekend until his final play, it's been quite the interesting start to the passing portion of Tennessee's aerial attack.

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With apologies to Doug Flutie and Boston College in 1984, Jacksonville State's last-second bomb to shock Florida State last week may go down in history as the Hail Mary to end all Hail Marys.

It already seems like ancient history, but Georgia's first football season with Kirby Smart as head coach in 2016 yielded an 8-5 record.

It appeared in Sunday's paper as a 41-34 loss, and it forever will be listed the same way in the record books.

Alabama sophomore quarterback Bryce Young has shown that he can conquer the Miami Hurricanes inside Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium and the Mercer Bears inside the even friendlier Bryant-Denny Stadium.