What Tennessee Football’s Playoff Chances Look Like With a Win and Loss Against Alabama
Tennessee Football’s 5-1 start to the season has the Vols in the conversation for one of the 12 spots in the College Football Playoffs this winter. That being said, though, Tennessee is one of several teams – especially from the SEC – in that conversation. The Southeastern Conference alone has nine teams with fewer than […]
Where Tennessee Football’s Bowl Projections Land Heading Into the Arkansas Game
We’re nearing the midway point of Tennessee Football’s regular-season slate with a home game against Arkansas this weekend in Neyland Stadium. But through the first five games, Tennessee has four wins and one loss. The Vols have wins over Syracuse and SEC foe Mississippi State, with an overtime loss against Georgia. The second half of […]
Tennessee Paired Up With SEC Rivals in Two College Football Playoff Predictions
Tennessee Football returns to action this weekend with a home game against SEC foe Arkansas in Knoxville. The Vols will welcome in the Razorbacks and interim head coach Bobby Petrino as they prepare for the Saturday afternoon game from Neyland Stadium. Before the bye week, Tennessee went to Starkville, MS, and found an overtime win […]
ESPN has Tennessee Football Playing Against Familiar Faces if Playoffs Started Today
The College Football Playoffs don’t start today, but if they did, ESPN has Tennessee football as one of the 12 teams in the field. The publication slotted the Vols as the 10-seed, meaning they’d have to go on the road for the first round. Tennessee would see some familiar faces if this did become a […]
Tennessee is Now Projected for the College Football Playoffs After 2-0 Start to the Season
Tennessee Football has exceeded expectations to start the 2025 season. The Volunteers are still waiting for their first true SEC test, which will come this weekend, but it’s undoubtedly been a hot start with many positive takeaways from the first eight quarters of the season. Tennessee handled its business against Syracuse with a 45-26 win […]
Tennessee Makes the Quarterfinals Twice in ESPN’s Simulated College Football 26 Playoff Bracket
In early July, right around the release of the hit College Football 26 video game by EA Sports, Rocky Top Insider simulated the Vols’ upcoming football season five times to a bevy of different results. In short, Tennessee had an average of 8.8 wins per season, going 1-4 against Georgia, 4-1 against Arkansas, 2-3 against […]
The Computer Likes Tennessee Football’s Playoff Chances, But This ESPN Expert Isn’t Buying It
After coming off a trip to the College Football Playoffs last season, analysts are fairly torn about what the ceiling of Tennessee’s upcoming season is. Most notably, it’s hard to lock down solid projections with an ongoing quarterback competition, especially one that was as unexpected (and delayed) as Tennessee’s was. But the computer analytics have […]
Missouri Coach Eli Drinkwitz Makes Unpopular Proposal For College Football Playoff Format
During SEC Media Days, every coach in the conference was asked to give their opinion on the state of college football and the seemingly ever-expanding playoffs. Nobody took it as far as Missouri football head coach Eli Drinkwitz, though. He wants the playoffs to expand. Not to 16 teams. Not to 24 teams. All the […]
Will A Google Math Expert Save the College Football Playoffs?
With time ticking down until the start of the college football season, the upcoming College Football Playoffs format looks to be in a bit of chaos. So much so that the CFB Playoff committee brought in, yes, a mathematician from Google to help figure things out. That’s where we’re at with just 66 days until […]
Where Tennessee Would Have Landed After College Football Playoffs Shakeup on Thursday
After just one year of the 12-team College Football Playoff format, there looks to be changes on the horizon. Yahoo! Sports’ Ross Dellenger had a groundbreaking report on Thursday afternoon that college football executives “unanimously adopted a move to ‘straight seeding’ for this year’s playoff.” Ultimately, that means that “teams will be seeded directly on […]