Jeremy Pruitt is lucky this is just his first year with Tennessee football and he’s not on any hot seat yet. But whenever he is on one as UT’s head coach, a loss to the Florida Gators may be the thing to send him in a tailspin.
Heck, that’s the reason he’s on Rocky Top to begin with. The previous two Vols head coaches, Butch Jones and Derek Dooley, could never really recover from that first loss of the season in 2012 and 2017 respectively.
Looking back on last year’s loss to the Gators, Jones could never recover because it was a loss that solidified him belonging on the hot seat.