It started last week on the ESPN Football Power Index. The analytics made Tennessee football the favorite in nine games for the 2019 season, which included all four non-conference games, three winnable home games against the Mississippi State Bulldogs, South Carolina Gamecocks and Vanderbilt Commodores, and a road game against the Kentucky Wildcats.
The shocker, though, was that the FPI favored the Vols ever so slightly to beat the Missouri Tigers to get to 9-3. This was just one index, though, so we have to take things more from an overall perspective when it comes to 2019.