Josh Heupel has earned a well-deserved reputation as one of college football's best offensive masterminds over the past decade. But four years into his tenure at Tennessee, he has built up a defense that just might be the best in the country.
There are plenty of stats you can point to for justifying that claim, but here's one worth considering: The Volunteers rank No. 1 nationally in stop rate for the second week in a row.
What is stop rate? It's a basic measurement of success: the percentage of a defense's drives that end in punts, turnovers or a turnover on downs.