College football season is one of the best sporting seasons in the world, but it certainly comes with it woes. For example, Rutgers playing Michigan woes. These stats are NSFW. No team (internally, at least) expects to come out and put on a laughing-stock performance like that one on Saturdays, but it’s inevitably going to…
A major part of the college football viewing experience is the announcing crew. A bad announcing crew can at least partially ruin a great game, while a great crew can help keep viewers interested in a blowout or a 14-10 type game. Bad games in the hands of bad crews are the absolute worst. Below,…
Tennessee’s hot streak on the class of 2018 recruiting trail continued on Thursday evening as 4-star cornerback Jaycee Horn of Alpharetta, Ga. committed to the Vols over Alabama, South Carolina and Georgia among other schools. https://twitter.com/jayceehorn_10/status/900860586896084993 The son of Joe Horn, former NFL Pro Bowl wide receiver, Horn is ranked as the consensus No. 25…
When the college football season hasn’t started yet, the best thing you can do is build unsustainable excitement for events far off in the future. Such is the purpose of this post. On my personal blog, I wrote a similar post to this one for the 2016 season back in July of last year. Things…
Football season and fight night. Here we go… Hawaii +2 @ UMass (-105) Hawaii started as a one-point favorite on this game, but the odds have switched in favor of Massachusetts. Most of that comes from a concern about Hawaii’s 5,014-mile trip to Amherst. These two teams coincidentally ended last season against each other. So…
Pac-12 North by Will Warren Hello! Football is BACK! Guess who else is back? One of the College Football Playoff entrants. An infamous brand with a new head coach and potential hype and a lot of speed. The craziest, strangest, most fun head coach in the entire nation…and his crazy, strange, fun team. The most consistent West Coast…
by Nathan Odom and Will Warren With Bob Stoops retiring after 18 years at the helm of Oklahoma, you might think teams like Oklahoma State and Texas will push to end the Sooners’ 16-game conference winning streak and claim the Big 12 throne. You’re right to think so highly of Bob Stoops, but Oklahoma…
Photo: The USA Today *Trump voice* Nobody loves small business more than I do. Nobody wants the small businesses in our area to succeed more than me. This weekend’s boxing match provides sports bars the chance to pack in casual fans and keep them for the entirety of Saturday night. For 2015’s Mayweather-Pacquiao fight, the…
The Tennessee Volunteers football team was back on the practice field today as they prepare for their first game against Georgia Tech on Sept. 4 in Atlanta. Here are some of my quick observations in today’s practice report. The overall energy seemed to be really high. Today was probably the most vocal I’ve ever seen…
It’s that time of the week! Here we go with another edition of the FOX Sports Knoxville Weekly Mailbag. Bill H. writes: “So I know it’s just a rumor right now, but if Quinten Dormady is in fact injured. What does this mean for the program?” After watching the Orange and White game, I have…