Tennessee football: Five bold predictions for 2020 season

Here are things we predict for the Tennessee football Volunteers this year.

Obviously, this year is much more unpredictable than previous years. Tennessee football dropping its four non-conference games and adding two SEC games to make a 10-game league-only schedule makes it extremely hard to figure out what they will do this year.

All of this also resets expectations for stats and individual performances throughout the year. There are no easy teams for players to pad their stats, so it becomes a lot harder to use past years when trying to project what a player’s numbers will be.

Despite all of these issues, 2020 opens up the possibility for lots of new things to happen, for better or for worse when it comes to Tennessee football. What does it all mean for Jeremy Pruitt’s third team?

Well, in this post, we’re going to look at some things we think will happen. This isn’t a projection of what UT’s record will be at the end of the year or where it will finish. It simply predicts a few things that will happen in favor of the Vols throughout the course of the season.

These are major projections that will all seem incredibly optimistic, but this is all about having a good bit of fun surrounding the program ahead of its Sept. 26 kickoff at the South Carolina Gamecocks. Any of these things happening would signify a good season for Rocky Top.

We’ll be basing these predictions on returning talent and what that talent did last year, things Jeremy Pruitt and the coaching staff have said this offseason and what will be done with the team based on the personnel. The previous tendencies of the coaches also matter.

Simply put, everything here will come into account. But what does it all mean, and can it result in a winning season? Let’s break it down here. These are our five bold predictions for Tennessee football entering the 2020 season.