This is completely inaccurate. Phil Steele's magazine had USC finishing ahead of Tennessee but I don't remember much else. The Vegas over under for this team was 3.5: Eastern Illinois, Troy and Vanderbilt with East Carolina as a toss up.Didn't an enormous amount of players transfer out? Preseason, UT was a joke and an easy win because of their lack of ttalent.
Tennessee lost a ton but a lot of it was worthless. The will have a hard time with depth and more so as the season goes on but in a matchup of starters, there aren't as many Carolina guys that you're going to pick.