Tennessee football: 10 things for Vols to work on during bye week

After a 1-3 start, Tennessee football clearly has lots of areas for improvement. Here are 10 things the Volunteers need to fix during their open date.

You could say they need to work on everything. That’s a fair assessment for a Tennessee football program that enters its bye week with a 1-3 record, two losses to Group of Five schools and no wins yet against an FBS school.

Coming off a 34-3 loss in its only game against a Power Five school, which also happened to be its only road game, makes things even worse. Jeremy Pruitt’s second team on Rocky Top is looking like a complete disaster.

Simply put, this may be one year in which Tennessee football would welcome an early bye week. They need as much time as possible to correct some of their issues, and these issues are many. But, believe it or not, they are correctible.

In fact, there is a chance that the Vols could dramatically turn things around with just a few major fixes. After already handing out blame for the 1-3 start, we are going to take a look at those potential fixes with this post.

These fixes could be due to a couple of rare but recurring issues each game, or they could be major standout problems. What’s clear, though, is that there have been flashes of all of these issues being fixable at times, and that’s why we say the Vols should hone in on them during this off-week. Just making some of these corrections could dramatically change everything.

Don’t get me wrong, this is still a disastrous start. And the panic among Vol Nation is valid. But we should point out that this team started the season with two new coordinators and lots of young talent. So there is reason to believe they can fix their issues.

What are the fixable things they need to focus on? Who has the most room for potential improvement? Let’s take a look at all of that here. These are the 10 things Tennessee football needs to work on during the bye week.