Perhaps Tennessee was intoxicated by the hype, even mesmerized by it.
And it’s true that we all tend to overreact based on what we see the first week of the college football season, so it’s possible the Vols aren’t as listless, undisciplined and disinterested as they looked for much of Thursday’s season-opening 20-13 overtime win against Appalachian State.
Then again, if it looks like a brick, feels like a brick and sinks like a brick, then chances are it’s probably a brick.
The Vols chucked up a big ugly brick in their most anticipated debut in more than a decade, and even though they survived, they get the early award as college football’s biggest fraud.