No one thing is responsible for a 45-0 win. But given how Tennessee football struggled the first two weeks of the year, the Vols needed a few key things to happen just to be able to get on track, and those things did happen.
Normally, no SEC school would celebrate a win over an FCS program, but the Vols are a different story. Jeremy Pruitt’s second team had a brutal start to the season, so a dominating win over anybody was beyond welcome.
UT managed to set the tone early, and they kept it throughout the game.