A dreaded scenario with Josh Heupel and Oklahoma could be coming sooner than expected for Tennessee Vols fans
The Tennessee Vols are currently enjoying their most successful stretch of football since the late 1990s when Phillip Fulmer was at the helm.
Tennessee is 5-1 through the first six games of the 2024 season. It’s the third straight season that the Vols have started 5-1.
The last time the Vols started 5-1 in three straight seasons was from 1997 to 1999.
Despite what you might hear from the national media, it’s a great time to be a Tennessee football fan.
Josh Heupel hasn’t been perfect as Tennessee’s head coach, but he’s been better than anyone expected. He’s obviously the right guy for the Vols. That doesn’t mean he’s going undefeated anytime soon, but he has the Tennessee program on solid ground for the first time in two decades. He deserves every penny he’s earning.
The worst thing that could happen to Tennessee right now would be Heupel leaving for another job.
Heupel seems incredibly happy in Knoxville, and he’s created something special with the culture on Rocky Top, so it seems incredibly unlikely that he’d entertain the idea of leaving UT for another job.
There’s one job, however, that could potentially come open that would create an uncomfortable scenario for Vols fans.
That’s, of course, the Oklahoma job.
Current Sooners head coach Brent Venables is starting to feel the heat after a blowout loss to Texas this past weekend. Oklahoma is 4-2 this season with losses to the Longhorns and the Vols. With games remaining against South Carolina, Ole Miss, Missouri, Alabama, and LSU, it’s possible that Oklahoma finishes the regular season as a six or seven win team.
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