David Paschall

For many players in Tennessee's football program, last year's 7-5 regular-season record and journey to the Music City Bowl represented the high-water mark of their time in Knoxville.

It's playoff time on the PGA Tour.

On Oct. 5, 2020, Bill O'Brien was relieved of his duties as head coach and general manager of the NFL's Houston Texans.

Tennessee second-year offensive line coach Glen Elarbee has a lengthy list of characteristics when it comes to being a good center, with two qualities immediately jumping to the forefront.

Could the Georgia Bulldogs routinely employ two tight ends this season? What about three?

A debate emerged earlier this week regarding the fastest player on Tennessee's football roster. There is no question as to the lightest player for the Volunteers.

If only the adjustment to Southeastern Conference competition wasn't so steep, especially from the rebuilding standpoint of Vanderbilt.

Alabama won its seventh Southeastern Conference championship in a 10-year stretch last season to earn the top seed in the College Football Playoff, and the Crimson Tide also played for the national title for a ninth time in 13 years.

When Kirby Smart was Alabama's defensive coordinator in 2010, the Crimson Tide were coming off the 2009 national championship and returned senior quarterback Greg McElroy, junior running back Mark Ingram, junior receiver Julio Jones and junior defensive tackle Marcell Dareus.

Tennessee linebacker Solon Page III is preparing for his last go-around with the Volunteers.

Motivation has come in multiple waves for Tennessee fifth-year senior receiver Cedric Tillman.

Several months before the public exchange between Alabama football coach Nick Saban and Texas A&M counterpart Jimbo Fisher over the NIL landscape, the SEC experienced a unique occurrence in the transfer portal.

As one of Tennessee's 13 early enrollees from its 23-member signing class, linebacker Elijah Herring out of Murfreesboro Riverdale figured going through 15 spring practices might help slow things down as far as his adjusting to the college game.

Camden Sewell has won more than 83% of his decisions as a Tennessee pitcher.

One of the most anticipated players in Southeastern Conference football this year is Spencer Rattler, the former Oklahoma quarterback who transferred to South Carolina.

Competing is competing, but competitions aren't always the same.

Last month's Southeastern Conference media days event in Atlanta was again loaded with stars who were once big-time recruits, with Alabama quarterback Bryce Young, Auburn running back Tank Bigsby, Alabama outside linebacker Will Anderson and Georgia outside linebacker Nolan Smith serving as notable examples.

The distinction has been made.

Tennessee second-year football coach Josh Heupel has referred to the NCAA quagmire created by predecessor Jeremy Pruitt as a "speed bump" since arriving in Knoxville 18 months ago.

Last football season ended with a fizzle for Mississippi State. There was, however, one Saturday in November that the Bulldogs won't forget for a long, long time.