After coming up short in big early season games in the past, Butch Jones and the Vols answered an early challenge from Virginia Tech with an emphatic victory at Bristol.
Noise at Bristol Motor Speedway - at least for 22 football players instead of 40 cars on the track - goes up and out. Instead of 156,990 creating the kind of sound and fury 102,455 create in Neyland’s architecture, much of the volume last night was lifted to Colossus and the heavens.
The heavens is where many of us were looking when Travon McMillian went 69 yards late in the first quarter to put Virginia Tech up 14-0, finding plenty of open air of his own.