Former Tennessee football coach Jeremy Pruitt gave the university an ultimatum earlier this month to either reach a settlement by Oct. 29 or face a lawsuit that would reportedly hinder the school's athletic department in the years ahead.

Near the end of his turn at the podium during Tennessee's weekly press conference on Tuesday, UT running backs coach Jerry Mack was asked about the large number of injuries that seem to be occurring on the defensive side of the ball any time the Vols are running their high-speed offense.

With three more Chattanooga FC home matches and two more University of Tennessee at Chattanooga regular-season football games remaining on their respective schedules, it would appear that the marquee athletics events for 2021 at Finley Stadium are coming to a close.

Ty Boeck has become a tackling machine for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga this season.

There will be those who bleed crimson and those who bleed orange suiting up Saturday night when No. 4 Alabama welcomes Tennessee to Bryant-Denny Stadium.

Ending 14 seasons of futility against Alabama will be no Small assignment for Tennessee first-year football coach Josh Heupel.

The Southeastern Conference has fined Tennessee $250,000 for fans stopping the Volunteers' game with Mississippi for about 20 minutes throwing water bottles, beer cans, pizza boxes, hot dogs, a plastic mustard bottle and at least one golf ball onto the field late in the game.

There is good news this week for most college football fans.

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The outcome was far from predictable. Two of the most productive offenses in college football relying on defensive stops in the fourth quarter.

For Ed Orgeron, coaching LSU has always been his dream job. That dream now has an expiration date.

Close games transpire every weekend in college football. Raining debris from the crowd typically doesn't.

Who brings a golf ball to a college football game?

What enabled the UTC football team to go from an overtime loss against the reigning SoCon champion to a statement win against the top team in the standings in the span of a week?

Candace Parker came home to bring the Windy City a basketball championship and did just that, leading the Chicago Sky to the franchise's first title.

It's not every Tennessee football game that is followed by a statement from the university chancellor.

"This is what college football is all about." The words belonged to Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin in the final minutes before his Rebels would take the field at a sold-out, jam-packed, loud-and-proud Neyland Stadium against Tennessee on Saturday night in Knoxville.

Tennessee's loss to Ole Miss inside Neyland Stadium on Saturday was one of the most chaotic games in Volunteers history.

Devonnsha Maxwell found another gear in the fourth quarter when it came to quarterback pressure. UTC found a way to do something no one else had done this season: beat East Tennessee State.

The final seconds were meaningless. Except to the Georgia defense.

The University of Alabama football program had a long week: Seven days filled with doubt, disgust and uncharacteristic angst.

Maybe the UTC football program has taken its talent for granted.

A primary goal of every college football defensive coordinator is to get the opposing offense off the field on third down. Unless Ole Miss is the foe.