Tennessee Head Coach Josh Heupel takes the field at the Orange & White spring game at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tenn. on Saturday, April 24, 2021. Kns Vols Spring Game
Obviously, Josh Heupel is taking over a huge mess in his first year with Tennessee football. He inherits a team coming off a 3-7 season that has lost a wave of transfers among its top players. Oh, and the program is still under investigation due to infractions from Jeremy Pruitt’s staff.
Nevertheless, some analysts still have certain expectations for Heupel. In his list of expectations for first-year head coaches in the SEC in 2021, Barrett Sallee of CBS Sports said making a bowl game is the primary expectation for the Vols.