The 2018 season's largest margin: Tennessee 59, East Tennessee State 3. A 56-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2018 — The Correction
2018 is a losing-side chapter for Tennessee. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Jarrett GuarantanoQB1,906 passing yards
- Keller ChrystQB450 passing yards
- Ty ChandlerRB630 rushing yards
- Tim JordanRB522 rushing yards
- Madre LondonRB206 rushing yards
- Marquez CallawayWR614 receiving yards
- Josh PalmerWR484 receiving yards
- Jauan JenningsWR438 receiving yards
- Daniel BituliLB79 tackles
- Nigel WarriorDB57 tackles
- Kyle PhillipsDL55 tackles
- Darrell TaylorLB8 sacks
- Alexis JohnsonDL4 sacks
- Deandre JohnsonDE2 sacks
Season leaders, 2018.
The season's deepest loss: Tennessee 21, Alabama 58. A 37-point margin the season is remembered by.
"Rocky Top plays. It is not a cute song — it is a contract."
2018 sits in Tennessee's crisis ledger. The program does not moralise it. The next season begins the day this one ended and the crisis chapter closes when the ledger does.