With one game left play in the 2019 regular season, Tennessee sits at six wins. They’ve already clinched a bowl bid and will return to the postseason for the first time since the 2016 season.
Two months ago, fresh off a blowout loss to to Florida — which followed losses to Georgia State and BYU — Tennessee sat at 1-3. A bye week showed improvement against Georgia, but things fell apart in the second half as the Vols fell to 1-4.
Seven weeks later, Tennessee improved to 6-5. If Ed Orgeron wasn’t having a career year in Baton Rouge, you could at least make a case for Jeremy Pruitt being considered for SEC coach of the year.