So just how good was Tennessee's offense this season?

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Volosaurus rex said:
According to this article (Where Josh Heupel's offense ranks nationally following regular-season finale), Tennessee finished the regular season ranked first nationally in six separate categories, which includes, surprisingly, rushing touchdowns.
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It was scary. It put so much pressure on teams.
With that said, it could be on it's way to becoming even better.

I think Nico provides so many possibilities from the QB spot. He's a guy that loves to spread it around.
And when we have big fast guys like Seldon, Leacock, and Keith, Davis, that's really hard to deal with.

Wright and Sampson give this offense that true fear from the run game. Even though Small is a good consistent back.

Wish we had Hyatt for one more year.
 
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It is actually a pretty simple system. Spread the field as wide as possible. Isolate the LBers. Show that you intend to pass. Hand the ball off. Run another play before the defense can substitute to solve any mismatch.

The key to UT's offense is running the ball successfully because it forces the D to tighten up against the run in a spread formation. Then you tell the QB to throw it over everyone's heads. That's how UT has the #3 passing offense but only ranked 36th in number of pass attempts. The two passing offenses ahead of UT attempted 126 (Wash 520) and 173(WKU 567) more passes than the Vols 394. Tennessee rushed the ball 485 times. That's more than anyone else ranked in the Top 15 except Michigan 522 and K State 486.

Georgia won by holding the Vols running backs to 76 yards. Tennessee entered the game avg 202 a game on the ground. Left in known passing situations, the Georgia defense was able to bring a lot of pressure. When your QB has 18 carries for 17 yards then you know he spent a lot of time being chased in passing situations.

Next time they play, I would expect Tennessee to have their receivers break off their routes underneath to help the QB. They never really did when they played in Athens.
 
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Well it’s the second year in a row we’ve broken a school record for points scored. No reason to think it won’t happen again.

If Nico pans out as expected then the sky is the limit. I just hope fans have the patience to watch him develop.
 
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The rushing kind of surprises me too but probably shouldn't. Once your passing game is on fire it really opens up the run game. The way Heupel spreads the field creates a lot of open ground in the middle.
 
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Actually, a highly productive rushing attack and an excellent balance between the run and pass is a hallmark of Heupel's offense. Take a look at these stats for the three years that Heupel coached at UCF:

2020: cfbstats.com - 2020 UCF Knights Total Offense Split Stats
2019: cfbstats.com - 2019 UCF Knights Total Offense Split Stats
2018: cfbstats.com - 2018 UCF Knights Total Offense Split Stats

Each year, he averaged at least 522 ypg of total offense, over 210 ypg rushing, and close to or more than 300 ypg passing. Incidentally, total offense went up progressively over his three-year tenure there, from 522.7 to 568.1 ypg. This year, he eclipsed his scoring pace at UCF, where he averaged 42-43 ppg.

At Missouri, when he was offensive coordinator in 2016-2017, the same general tendencies were still applicable:

2016: cfbstats.com - 2016 Missouri Tigers Total Offense Split Stats
2017: cfbstats.com - 2017 Missouri Tigers Total Offense Split Stats

Again, they averaged roughly 200 ypg rushing, 300 ypg passing, and almost exactly 500 ypg total offense. Scoring went up from 31.4 ppg in 2016 to 37.5 ppg the following year. He had Drew Lock at qb both years, and it is worth noting that Lock's td/int ratio improved from 23/10 to 44/13 in 2017.
 
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It has been a helluva ride!

There was a time that I almost removed the power T license plate on my truck.

Thank goodness the good times have returned!
 
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rocytop2624 said:
And held 5 teams to 13 or less points.
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I was a huge Banks fan……not so much right now. I just think there are real quality guys out there and Tennessee “has” to step up the D to take the next step.

HOWEVER……Tennessee’s scoring D was better this year than 2 of Pruitt’s 3 seasons……and he was a supposed D genus.
 
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How many games did Hooker only play one half or three quarters? Our second and third strings got a lot more playing time than previous coaches.
 
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