KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's Evan Berry and Cameron Sutton are aiming to give their departing special teams coach an ideal sendoff by accomplishing something that hasn't been done in over two decades.
Berry is the top Football Bowl Subdivision kickoff returner and Sutton is the nation's leading punt returner heading into the Jan. 1 Outback Bowl against No. 12 Northwestern (10-2) in Tampa, Florida.
The last time teammates finished the season atop those two categories was 1993, when Texas A&M had the nation's No. 1 punt returner in Aaron Glenn and the top kickoff returner in Leeland McElroy, according to STATS LLC,
If Berry and Sutton match that feat, they'd deliver quite the going-away present for special teams coach Mark Elder, who is leaving Tennessee to begin his head coaching career at Football Championship Subdivision program Eastern Kentucky.