With just a few minutes left in the first half Saturday, the Volunteers were staring down a 24-3 deficit to No. 19 Georgia. This, of course, was coming after back-to-back losses to Florida and Arkansas in which Tennessee blew a two-score lead in each—and a few weeks after the double-OT defeat to Oklahoma.
But Butch Jones' team didn't fold, and it didn't even take a rousing halftime speech to spark a turnaround.
"I thought their character showed through," Jones said, per Dustin Dopirak of the Knoxville News Sentinel. "They had a different look.