How Much Progress Did Tennessee Actually Make in 2019?

Photo by Silas Walker/Getty ImagesTennessee’s first win over the Vanderbilt Commodores in three years serves as a fitting conclusion to the 2019 regular season. The Volunteers took one of the most bizarre paths to 7-5 that we’ve ever seen, metaphorically backing themselves away from the ledge they cornered themselves in with losses to Georgia State and BYU. The Tennessee team that played in September is the complete opposite of the one that played in November.

The record and the eye test all point to modest improvement. What do the numbers say? We’ve gone through an assortment of systems and raw numbers to give a comparison of the 2018 and 2019 Tennessee teams. You already know that there…