The Tennessee Volunteers are experiencing a brand new world under third-year football coach Jeremy Pruitt.

As only third-year University of Tennessee football coach Jeremy Pruitt can, the boss of the Volunteers said of Saturday night's first half at South Carolina, a game in which the visitors fell behind 7-0 early, then botched their first punt: "Well, we didn't start the game the way we wanted to."

There were multiple times during Tennessee's preseason when coach Jeremy Pruitt made it clear that the defensive front was not winning him over.

Tennessee vs. South Carolina college football game results as they happen.

Tickets are sold out for Saturday night's football game between Alabama and Missouri at Faurot Field.

The Tennessee Volunteers proved last football season that they could finish.

Jeremy Pruitt will kick off his third season as football coach at Tennessee when the Volunteers visit South Carolina on Saturday.

Simply making it to game week will not score the Tennessee Volunteers any points during Saturday night's football opener at South Carolina.

Tennessee is opening its 2020 college football season Saturday night against South Carolina inside Williams-Brice Stadium, so why is tape of Alabama, Colorado State and Georgia being studied so intently?

Andy Bender had his perfect University of Tennessee football Saturday, at least the perfect COVID-19 edition, all figured out.

Midway through this extended preseason for the Tennessee Volunteers, third-year football coach Jeremy Pruitt threw out the staggering number of 44 players having to miss practice, with COVID-related issues accounting for a majority of those absences.

Has the number zero ever been so celebrated as it has in 2020?

It doesn't take long for Jim Morgan to recall the day he knew the Boys & Girls Clubs of Chattanooga were going to be relied on like never before by our town's neediest young people.

The Cade Mays saga of 2020 has cleared a huge hurdle toward reaching a successful conclusion for the Tennessee Volunteers.

Jay Graham doesn't have a problem commanding attention from his players after a career in Knoxville in which he rushed for 2,609 yards, including 1,438 in 1995, when he was an All-SEC selection on an 11-1 squad.

Tennessee senior left guard Trey Smith has a lengthy list of accomplishments during his time in Knoxville.

There are not a slew of pleasant memories to recount from Tennessee's 2017 football season, when the Volunteers sustained eight losses for the first time in program history and endured their first winless run through Southeastern Conference play.

By amassing 246 rushing yards against Vanderbilt and earning Gator Bowl MVP honors, Eric Gray provided an undeniable late-season impact on Tennessee's 2019 football team.

We've been blessed here in the Tennessee Valley to have witnessed so many previous acts of kindness and charity from Peyton Manning and his foundation

On a Tennessee Volunteers roster that has quality experience returning at every position group, the team's senior kicker takes a back seat to nobody.

Tennessee won six straight football games late last season before COVID-19 made an impact on sports, and during the pandemic the Volunteers have produced a recruiting surge over the spring and summer that has yielded a top-10 class for the 2021 cycle.

Tennessee Vols fans will have a new bobblehead to add to the memorabilia collection Friday, but there are fewer than 2,000 to go around.

Tennessee football coach Jeremy Pruitt offered his share of specifics this past Saturday, when he revealed that a scheduled scrimmage had to be reduced to a practice due to 44 player absences.