While everyone was focused on Tennessee football and Joey Aguilar putting on a show in the Week 1 win over Syracuse, some of us forgot that Josh Heupel had a pretty important quarterback decision to make. We're talking about the backup job.
After Aguilar was named the starter, Heupel waited all the way until Saturday morning to announce via the depth chart that Jake Merklinger is the QB2 for the Vols this season over true freshman George MacIntyre. This was another close battle, but it looks like Merklinger's extra year on campus gave him the advantage here:
Josh Heupel told us to wait for Saturday to see who QB2 is behind Joey Aguilar.