If you watch one game this season, it should be this one. ByPatForde on Tennessee-Georgia
Tennessee’s first offensive snap of the 2022 season was a 23-yard touchdown pass from Hendon Hooker to Jalin Hyatt—an appetizer for the big-play buffet to come. It would only get more lavish and sumptuous from there. It has become a movable feast, a binge-worthy bacchanal, delivered with a chef’s kiss by coach Josh Heupel.
Even Nick Saban, the greatest defensive coach in the history of the sport, was powerless to stop the Tennessee vertical game when Alabama met the Vols on Oct. 15. Hooker threw for 385 yards and five touchdowns, all to Hyatt, who had TD catches of 60 and 78 yards. It was the most points scored against Alabama since 1907, by Sewanee, and the most allowed by a Saban team since ’96, when he was at Michigan State.
Smart on the Tennessee offense: “They have some traditional formations and traditional plays, but a lot of theirs is very different. It’s very unique, and they have a plan of attack based on how you’re going to play them. You’re not going to trick them. You’re not going to show them something they haven’t seen. You’ve got to do what you do better than they do, and they’re really good at what they do.
Other than Heupel, the only coach since 2010 to have multiple teams average two or more 40-yard completions per game is Art Briles at Baylor, who did it three consecutive seasons from ’12 to ’14. The others: Kevin Sumlin at Houston in ’11 ; Dino Babers at Bowling Green in ’15 ; and Lincoln Riley at Oklahoma in ’17 . There are some commonalities here.
Like he has everywhere else he’s coached, Heupel has Tennessee throwing big plays modeled after the Air Raid offense.Since arriving as a transfer from Virginia Tech last year, Hooker has made huge strides as a passer. He was not the Day 1 starter at Tennessee—Michigan transfer Joe Milton started the first two games of 2021—but took over in September and had a very good first season.
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