Steve Sarkisian:
5 years at Texas
Took over a 7–3 team with deep NIL pockets
45–19 overall record
→ “Top-5 coach”
Josh Heupel:
5 years at Tennessee
Took over a 3–7 team with scholarship limitations
43–18 overall record
→ “Not good enough”
The AP poll is broken. Voters just move teams up and down from the previous week’s poll, rather than completely re-ranking teams each week. The poll should be pretty volatile, especially early in the year.
This is what the Week 2 AP Poll *should* look like:
While this likely won’t help the disappointment for Vol fans, Heupel showed us in that 1H that he can truly out scheme every coach in the country. The defense has improved rapidly & if Nico is as advertised the Vols will be title contenders as soon as next season