Kendall Watson's phone didn't ring like he wanted it to after a standout prep football career at McCallie.

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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?

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.

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

A willingness and an ability to do so much on the football field helped Jacob Saylors help Marion County High School's football program for four years. The former Warriors star has written a similar story with East Tennessee State University as the Buccaneers prepare to visit UTC on Saturday.

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Rusty Wright and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football team need a short memory this week.

The UTC football team lost in overtime Saturday at Virginia Military Institute, a result that was frustrating for the Mocs and puzzling in how it happened.

It has taken a while, but it appears UTC's offense is slowly rounding into form.

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The UTC men's basketball team opened practice last week for its 2020-21 schedule, with the Mocs coming off an 18-8 record in their fourth season under coach Lamont Paris.

The UTC women's basketball team tipped off practice last week for the 2021-22 schedule, hoping to improve on last season's 14-10 record.

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Jay Person couldn't believe it.

UTC used its SoCon opener to prove its offense is capable of making explosive plays. Lots of them, actually.

Reginald Henderson knows it. All of the UTC receivers know it.

It took a while for linebacker Ty Boeck and the rest of the UTC defense to settle in Saturday against Kentucky. But not that long.

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.

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

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