First of all, this is obligatory:
With that out of the way, we can get into the meat of this. While we talked yesterday about many of the shortcomings of the Tennessee offense, their defense has been average-to-good, with their only truly bad outing being a 44-point showing against Georgia.
They’re averaging 29 points per game, which is decidedly average, nationally, but have held their opponents to less than 230 yards passing per game and kept their opponents to 3.6 yards per carry in the rushing game.
Second year defensive coordinator Derrick Ansley is a familiar name to Alabama fans after a phenomenal two seasons as Alabama’s defensive backs coach in 2016 and 2017.