Where Tennessee Football Ranks In ESPN’s Football Power Index Rankings
ESPN released its initial Football Power Index rankings for the 2025 football season on Tuesday morning and the ratings system is high on Tennessee football. The Vols come in at No. 10 in the preseason rankings with a 17.4 rating. FPI gives Tennessee a 38.5% chance to make the College Football Playoff and a 2.3% […]
ESPN Metric Still Has Tennessee Football As Top 15 Team Entering 2025 Season
There has been little positivity around Tennessee football since spring practice and the departure of Nico Iamaleava to the transfer portal. The Vols have fallen out of the vast majority of way-too-early preseason rankings and nearly any conversation about the 12-team College Football Playoff. But one preseason ranking that’s analytically driven is still very high […]
Momentum Reportedly Building For SEC Football To Move To Nine Game Conference Schedule
When the SEC announced the addition of Oklahoma and Texas to the conference in the summer of 2021, the prevailing thought was that the conference would move to a nine-game conference schedule like the Big 10. But many schools were not keen on giving up a free win for another conference game pushed back on […]
Four Tennessee Football Players Projected To Go In This Week’s NFL Draft
We’re a day away from the 2025 NFL Draft with a number of former Tennessee football players hoping to hear their named called. Six Tennessee players are candidates to be selected in this year’s draft with one capable of going in the first round. ESPN released its final seven-round mock draft on Tuesday, projecting four […]
Tennessee Lady Vols Land In Top 10 Of ESPN’s Way-Too-Early Top 25 Rankings
The 2024-25 women’s college basketball season came to an end on Sunday afternoon when Connecticut knocked off South Carolina to win its 12th national championship. ESPN released its way-too-early top 25 rankings for the 2025-26 season earlier this week. The Tennessee Lady Vols landed at No. 8 on the list after a strong first season […]
Where ESPN Ranks Tennessee Basketball Amongst Remaining Sweet 16 Teams
Tennessee basketball is back in the Sweet 16 for the third straight season as they look for the first Final Four appearance in program history this weekend in Lexington. With the Field of 68 whittled down to 68 teams, ESPN updated its rankings of the best teams remaining in the field. Tennessee landed as the […]
Why an ESPN Expert Believes Tennessee is One of the Top Contenders For March Madness
Tennessee is the fifth-ranked team in the country entering the penultimate weekend of the college basketball regular season as the Vols fight for postseason positioning in the SEC Tournament and the NCAA Tournament ahead. The Vols have put together an impressive season this year despite a daunting conference slate, highlighted by wins over No. 13 […]
Which Tennessee Baseball Games Will Be On TV In 2025? Looking At The 11 Matchups
Tennessee baseball’s television schedule for the 2025 season is set with the reigning National Champions playing at least 11 games on cable television. The Vols play 11 games on various ESPN networks in their first nine SEC series. ESPN will decide its television schedule for the final week of the regular season at a later […]
Tennessee Football Lands One Player On ESPN Way-Too-Early All-American Team
Despite making a run to the College Football Playoffs in 2024, Tennessee football didn’t have a single player land on an All-American team for their play during the season. But ESPN is predicting that Tennessee won’t go another year without an All-American. In its way-too-early All-American predictions, ESPN predicted Tennessee cornerback Jermod McCoy to be […]
ESPN’s Paul Finebaum Makes the Case for Tennessee in the Playoffs Despite Georgia Loss
Tennessee suffered its second loss of the season in a high-stakes SEC rivalry game against Georgia in Athens on Saturday night. But while Tennessee’s loss doesn’t mathematically eliminate them from playoff contention by any stretch, it does make the Vols’ road to the final 12 a bit more hazy along the way. We’ll have to […]