Two weeks and a wake up.
This is the part where it gets completely off the rails. (I wrote this before Rashaan Gaulden's injury was reported, which will rightfully dampen the mood temporarily...but not permanently.) It's been that way here all week, as glass-half-full becomes glass-all-full and we start thinking about what it might actually be like to get what we asked for on Christmas morning.
Tennessee is going to take a step this fall. Failure to do so would be failure in general; barring a catastrophic injury situation if the Vols are 6-6 at the end of the regular season again, something went significantly wrong.