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 ==== Week By Week ====
-Posted October 30, 2023
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-From the desk of AD / Head coach tsweezy
-Hello to all of Volunteer nation! As we start experiencing the first pangs of the long and dark offseason, I offer you this chance to relive last season. This team worked their ass off last year and here is a sneak peek into some of the inner thoughts in the program.
-Season In Review
-Check here for the 2023 season preview article.
-The basics: national pundits saw the 2022 playoff semifinal appearance and predicted more of the same with Tennessee at number 3 in the preseason AP poll. Southeastern media members and program internal sources were a little more bearish with most predicting a 9-10 win regular season. There were a lot of questions about the leaky looking OL and lack of any good RBs with Ynoa off making noise in Minnesota. With the defense looking porous as well, everyone thought it would be a fun season full of shoot-outs and big numbers. By roster rankings, Tennessee had shot up from the 45th most talented team to 14th as tsweezy got in his 2nd crooting class. While that seems high, the initial schedule looked rough against 3 top-5 talent teams. Reigning national champion Alabama and preseason top-5 Kentucky and FSU (to say nothing of UGA) made for a daunting path. Luckily though, none of those teams were quite as good as initially expected.
-TL;DR Season Recap: Brandon Savage was even better than advertised. Even without a functional running game the man led Tennessee to a 12-0 regular season and a Heisman trophy. The defense was actually quite stout as well, looking like a top-15 unit despite on paper talent suggesting otherwise. Unfortunately their achilles heel was the air raid as Auburn took advantage to beat them in the SEC CCG. Tennessee did re-group and beat Marshall to make the playoff semifinals for the second straight year, where they ultimately fell in a shockingly lopsided game to TCU.
-Detailed 2023 Season Recap
-Season Results:
-Week	Opponent	Result	W/L	Ranking
-	Maryland	45-7	W	3
-	at #2 Florida State	40-21	W	1
-	Southern Miss	33-3	W	1
-	at Florida	45-21	W	1
-	#12 South Carolina	44-13	W	1
-	Texas A&M	41-24	W	1
-	at #20 Kentucky	27-24	W	1
-	at Chattanooga	60-0	W	2
-	at Missouri	48-3	W	1
-	at Alabama	34-17	W	1
-	#9 Georgia	45-17	W	1
-	Vanderbilt	50-21	W	1
-CCG	#6 Auburn	20-40	L	1
-Fiesta Bowl	#12 Marshall	34-24	W	4
-Rose Bowl	#1 TCU	30-42	L	4
-Final
--2 (8-0 conference, 5-0 in rivalry games)
-SEC East Champion
-Playoff Semifinalist
-Week-by-week:
 The 2023 Season saw Tennessee run pretty much wire to wire in the regular season with a record setting offense and a near-dominant defense. The only reason this team didn't set almost every record was the introduction of garbage time. In the 12 regular season games, the backups played for 9.5 quarters (20% of the season) and the backup defense in particular gave up almost 1/3 of the season points allowed.
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 The semi-final was in gorgeous Pasadena at the Rose Bowl. We got absolutely pasted by TCU. Moving on
+==== Team Awards ====
+=== Team MVP ===
+How is this a question? Brandon Savage. The man was the HEISMAN TROPHY winner and put up ungodly numbers in 13/15 games this season. We are so lucky as a program to have signed him. I can't sing his praises high enough and I'm absolutely sure 75% of coaches around the league are sick of hearing about him. Too bad. Final season stats: 6649 yards, 52 TDs.
+=== Offensive POTY ===
+see: MVP. Savage is the obvious choice. Nobody else moved the needle outside the WR room and they had too many cooks.
+=== Defensive POTY ===
+ILB JT Adams was the absolute lynchpin of our defense. As an A- overall run stopper he helped man the front-7 in a defense that was excellent all year against the run (TCU game aside). By far the team leader in tackles along with 25 TFLs, 1 strip-sack, 2 INTs, and a safety. We will miss him dearly.
+=== Freshman of the Year ===
+There were not a lot of freshmen who played, and only 2 true freshmen recorded any stats at all: DE Roger London (5 tackles, 1 FF before redshirting after game 4), and QB Mark Koch (22/34 197 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT in 3rd string mop-up duty). This award though goes to RS FR Doug Dimmadome Jr. Son of Doug Dimmadome owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome. DDJr was 5th on the team with 4 TFLs, 2 sacks, and a FR as he established himself as a valuable DL rotational member.
+=== Team Captains ===
+>ILB JT Adams
+>DT Steve Markkanen
+>QB Brandon Savage
+>WR Matt Siri
+>C Emmanuel Matthews
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 |  3  |  26  |  90  |  [[Matt Siri]]  |  [[New York Jets]]  |  WR  |
 |  3  |  29  |  93  |  [[Jason Marte]]  |  [[Minnesota Vikings]]  |  DT  |
+==== Recruiting ====
+^  Stars  ^  Overall  ^  Position  ^  Name  ^  Archetype  ^  Potential  ^
+|  5  |  B  |  OT  |  David France  |  Pass Blocking  |  B  |
+|  5  |  B  |  QB  |  Jake O'Connor  |  Pocket  |  C  |
+|  5  |  B  |  WR  |  Joseph Kleen  |  Red Zone Threat  |  B+  |
+|  5  |  B  |  WR  |  B.J. Flash  |  Speed  |  B+  |
+|  5  |  B  |  OG  |  Charles Le  |  Pass Blocking  |  C  |
+|  5  |  B  |  OLB  |  Tee Sweezy  |  Coverage  |  B  |
+|  4  |  B  |  CB  |  Wendell Gallagher  |  Zone Coverage  |  C  |
+|  4  |  B  |  RB  |  David Forsberg  |  Receiving  |  C  |
+|  4  |  B  |  DE  |  Armando Medina  |  Speed Rusher  |  C+  |
+|  4  |  C  |  K  |  Bruce Knight  |  Power  |  A+  |
+|  4  |  C  |  P  |  Amir Stevens  |  Accuracy  |  B  |
+|  4  |  C  |  SS  |  Kevin Wells  |  Man Coverage  |  B  |
+|  3  |  C  |  CB  |  Robert Carranza  |  Zone Coverage  |  A  |
+|  3  |  C  |  OLB  |  Kenneth Nestle  |  Pass Rush  |  C+  |
+|  3  |  C  |  OLB  |  Daniel Folks  |  Run Stopper  |  B-  |
+|  3  |  C  |  DE  |  Houston Wood  |  Balanced  |  C+  |
+|  3  |  C  |  C  |  David Ventura  |  Pass Blocking  |  A  |
+|  3  |  C  |  ILB  |  Joseph Cochran  |  Coverage  |  C  |
+|  3  |  C  |  DT  |  Douglas Laycock  |  Balanced  |  C  |
+|  3  |  C  |  DT  |  Heriberto Alegria  |  Balanced  |  C-  |
+|  3  |  C  |  TE  |  David Spalding  |  Vertical Threat  |  C+  |
+|  3  |  C  |  OG  |  Gerald Taylor  |  Balanced  |  C  |
+|  3  |  C  |  FS  |  Jose Hernandez  |  Man Coverage  |  C+  |
+|  0  |  D  |  OT  |  Fred Eilerman  |  Run Blocking  |  D+  |
+|  0  |  D  |  QB  |  Scott Wood  |  Field General  |  C+  |
+rank: 1st
+Rivals rank: 1st
+ESPN rank: 1st
+Composite rank: 1st
+Blue chips: 12 (2nd)
+=== Highlights ===
+This was a pretty good class on the whole, in a totally different way from the last 2 classes. We went away from hunting for a ton of blue chip depth and went hard for top-shelf impact players. In contrast to last years 2/11 blue chip flip results, we went something like 7/10 this season which felt AMAZING by the way. Highly recommend. 5 5-stars on offense is an absolutely absurd haul and I cannot wait to see this class show up on the field with a 5-star QB, 2 WRs, 2 OL, a B overall RB signee, and 2 5-star OLs. On defense, coach sweezy's nephew (5-star OLB Tee Sweezy) was the jewel of the class although we also signed a few other impact defenders. We also picked up the #1 K prospect in the class and a future punter.
+Awaiting early enrollee decisions, David France, Tee Sweezy, and B.J. Flash have the potential to challenge for snaps as true freshmen. Everyone else is in line for redshirts.