Now that we've seen the Vols team we thought we'd see this season, much of the recalibration of expectations we'd done in the first three weeks is being undone this week. But not all of it.
Explanations are below, but here's the updated chart:
| PREDICTIONS | |||||
| 5-30 SCALE | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 |
| 5 | |||||
| 6 | Alabama | Alabama | Alabama | ||
| 7 | |||||
| 8 | Alabama | ||||
| 9 | |||||
| 10 | Georgia | ||||
| 11 | Alabama | ||||
| 12 | Georgia | ||||
| 13 | Texas A&M | Texas A&M | |||
| 14 | Georgia | Florida (W; 38-28) | Texas A&M | ||
| 15 | Texas A&M | Texas A&M | Georgia | ||
| 16 | |||||
| 17 | Florida | Georgia | |||
| 18 | Florida | ||||
| 19 | Missouri | Missouri | Missouri | ||
| 20 | South Carolina | Florida | |||
| 21 | Virginia Tech | Virginia Tech (W; 45-24) | South Carolina | ||
| 22 | Kentucky | ||||
| 23 | South Carolina | Missouri | Vanderbilt | Kentucky | |
| 24 | Kentucky | Vanderbilt | South Carolina | South Carolina | |
| 25 | Appalachian State (W; 20-13 (OT)) | Missouri | Vanderbilt | Vanderbilt | |
| 26 | Vanderbilt | Kentucky | Kentucky | ||
| 27 | |||||
| 28 | Ohio | Ohio | Ohio (W; 28-19) | ||
| 29 | Tennessee Tech | Tennessee Tech | Tennessee Tech | Tennessee Tech | Tennessee Tech |
| 30 | |||||
Recalibrating the Vols after Florida
The talk last week centered mostly around which Vols team was going to show up.