Welcome to the start of the season! Tennessee football will face a team that was 2-10 last year to open up Jeremy Pruitt’s second year on Rocky Top along with a head coach it has faced in Neyland Stadium once before.
Shawn Elliott, who once coached the South Carolina Gamecocks in the interim in 2015 as Steve Spurrier retired, heads back to Knoxville leading the Georgia State Panthers in his third year. He gave the Vols a scare when leading S.C.
This time, though, he’s got far fewer horses. Meanwhile, he’s dealing with a completely different program led by Pruitt and a completely different style of play by Tennessee football.