Loyal readers of Rocky Top Talk may have followed along with another season of our Stat Dive articles. I’ve done these for the past few seasons (under various names), where I take a look at some analytics and what they say about Tennessee’s football team. Eyeball tests can often disagree, so I view it as an attempt to sift through the layers and get a clear view of Tennessee’s team quality.
On the heels of the most successful Tennessee regular season since the early 2000s, I’m doing a retrospective and comparing the numbers from 2021 to 2022. The win column going from 7 to 10 is just the tip of the iceberg.