With four games left on the conference schedule, the SEC has a three-way tie atop the regular season standings. We talked about Tennessee having a backloaded schedule and it’s turned out to really shake things up down the stretch.
The Vols have dropped two of their last three, losing at Kentucky and at LSU. Big picture, the sky isn’t exactly falling in Knoxville just yet, but their hopes of a regular season SEC title took a big hit on Saturday in Baton Rouge.
Tennessee has defensive issues that have been plaguing them for the better part of the new year.