Enjoying the second AP Top 25 win of Tennessee’s season? Well here is another stat to make you feel good.
With a win over No. 12 Kentucky on Saturday afternoon, Jeremy Pruitt has joined Phillip Fulmer and Bill Battle as the only Tennessee coaches to win at least two games against AP Top-25 opponents in their first season as head coach.*
It is a mouthful. But rest assured, that piece of trivia is more meaningful than it first appears.
Tennessee’s football program has been in a mire for the past decade, with occasional respite. The Volunteers have never been truly awful by college football standards—just one season has witnessed them win less than five games—but they rarely put together an objectively great season.