UTC football coach Rusty Wright had a simple message for his team after Thursday's final practice before Saturday's game at Western Kentucky.

Did Alabama play its best game of this 2020 football season last Saturday, when the No. 2 Crimson Tide thumped No. 3 Georgia 41-24?

After a football game, before he acknowledges his parents or his girlfriend, UTC inside linebacker Ty Boeck knows the first person he has to go see.

There hasn't been any significant concern about Georgia's running backs since midway through the 2013 season, when Todd Gurley was sidelined with a badly sprained ankle and Keith Marshall was out with an ACL tear.

Tennessee sixth-year senior center Brandon Kennedy didn't ascend to the role of offensive leader by dealing with simple situations, and there has been nothing easy about the 2020 football season for the Volunteers.

Tennessee is currently a 21-point underdog for Saturday's game against No. 2 Alabama inside Neyland Stadium. The Volunteers climbed to No. 14 after wins over South Carolina and Missouri to open the season but have since plummeted after lopsided losses to Georgia and Kentucky.

With the probability high the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football roster won't be the same the next time the Mocs step on the playing field after Saturday's game at Western Kentucky, the program's focus this fall has been on the Hilltoppers.

Through the first four weeks of last football season, Alabama had collected 62-10 and 49-7 thumpings of New Mexico State and Southern Mississippi, while Georgia had 63-17 and 55-0 routs of Murray State and Arkansas State.

A promising Tennessee men's basketball season will include the marquee opponent in the eighth annual Big 12/SEC Challenge.

With apologies to everyone else in the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football program, there isn't a player more ready for Saturday's game against Western Kentucky than Drayton Arnold.

Kentucky completed more than 81% of its passes during last Saturday's 34-7 humbling of Tennessee inside Neyland Stadium, averaging 8.2 yards per completion.

Finley Stadium went from hemorrhaging $40,000 monthly after the March outbreak of the coronavirus to actually turning a profit during the first quarter of the 2020-21 fiscal year to even thriving in October.

The "We led Georgia at halftime and Alabama didn't" T-shirts aren't exactly flying off the shelves in Knoxville this week.

This time last week, the Georgia Bulldogs were wondering how their talented defense would fare against one of college football's premier offenses.

Tennessee third-year head football coach Jeremy Pruitt will also be Volunteers defensive line coach for the remainder of the 2020 season, which continues Saturday against No. 2 Alabama and its high-powered offense that has scored at least 35 points for 17 straight contests.

Alabama won another big football game and Nick Saban remained undefeated against former assistant coaches.

Everything was lined up for Stetson Bennett IV to be the star of Saturday's sports world.

A positive COVID-19 test ultimately couldn't keep Nick Saban off the Alabama sideline, and Georgia's heralded defense had scant hope of keeping the Crimson Tide's playmakers out of the end zone.

If you're a member of the Big Orange Nation and you expected to see what happened to your University of Tennessee Volunteers on a spectacular Saturday afternoon in Knoxville, raise your hand.

The Kentucky Wildcats rewrote a lot of football history Saturday afternoon inside Neyland Stadium.

Six days after taking all 49 snaps during a Sunday night scrimmage reserved for players who had not competed this season, Tennessee quarterback Harrison Bailey made his collegiate debut early in the fourth quarter of Saturday's 34-7 loss to Kentucky inside Neyland Stadium.

University of Florida football coach Dan Mullen, who last weekend said he wanted 90,000 fans packed inside the Gators' stadium amid a pandemic, revealed he has tested positive for COVID-19.

The Crimson Tide will be at full strength — at least at the top — against Georgia after all.