His hire wasn’t the splash as some of the others that preceded him. It wasn’t roundly praised. He didn’t come from the Saban coaching tree.
He worked his way up the coaching ladder, spending time as an assistant at Arizona, Oklahoma, Utah State, and Missouri before going 28-8 in three seasons as the head man at Central Florida.
Last year, Heupel won seven games in his first season at Tennessee, losing three times by a single score. Then came this fall, and this 6-0 start, a stretch they have been waiting years to see at Tennessee. He has made Hooker into one of the nation’s top quarterbacks, the super senior throwing for 46 touchdowns and just three interceptions since joining him after three seasons at Virginia Tech.
Installing a modern up-tempo offense, Heupel has coached aggressively from the time he arrived on campus, and none more so than against Alabama. Tennessee attacked all game. When Crimson Tide kicker Will Reichard’s 50-yard field goal was wide right, only 15 seconds remained. Plenty of coaches would’ve taken a knee, be happy for overtime.
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