Live Updates: Tennessee 7, Virginia 0 , 1st Quarter
Tennessee football season is finally back, with the Vols opening the regular-season schedule against Virginia Saturday at a sold-out Nissan Stadium in Nashville. The game is scheduled for a Noon Eastern Time start and will be televised by ABC.
First Quarter
Tennessee 7, Virginia 0 (12:05, 1st Quarter): The Vols got the football to start the game and went on an eight-play, 62-yard touchdown drive taking 2:47 off the clock. Tennessee went for it on fourth-and-five at the Virginia 9-yard line and Joe Milton III threw left to sophomore running back Dylan Sampson, who won the race to the front pylon for the touchdown.
Pregame
Uniform News: Tennessee isn’t starting the new season at home, but will be in its traditional home uniform with white helmets, orange jerseys and white pants today against Virginia. The Vols will also have a checkerboard end zone on the new artificial surface at Nissan Stadium.
What’s Next: After starting the season with the neutral-site game against Virginia, Tennessee opens the home schedule on Saturday against Austin Peay at Neyland Stadium, a 5 p.m. ET kickoff on ESPN+/SEC Network+. The SEC schedule opens at Florida on September 16, a 7 p.m. ET start on ESPN.
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How to watch, stream and listen
Kickoff Time: Noon ET
Location: Nissan Stadium (69,143)
TV: ABC (Joe Tessitore – Play by Play, Jesse Palmer – Color Commentator, Katie George – Sideline Reporter)
Streaming: ESPN App
Radio: WIVK-FM 107.7 and WNML-FM 99.1 in Knoxville. The Vol Network radio broadcast (Bob Kesling – play-by-play – Pat Ryan, analyst – Brent Hubbs, analyst – Jayson Swain sideline) can be heard on local affiliates across the state of Tennessee.
Satellite Radio: SiriusXM Channel 135 or Channel 191 or SiriusXM App Channel 962
Tennessee a four-touchdown favorite against Virginia
Tennessee opened as a 28-point favorite against Virginia back in May and that’s where the line still is on game day.
VegasInsider has lines for four Tennessee football games as of Sunday. After opening the season as a four-touchdown favorite, the Vols are a 7.5-point favorite at Florida on September 16, 9.5-point underdogs at Alabama on October 21 and a 7.5-point home underdog against Georgia on November 18.
Tennessee and Virginia have played four times dating back to 1927. The Vols won 23-22 in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans on New Years Day 1991. Virginia won 16-13 in Knoxville on November 1, 1980 and Tennessee won 41-14 at home on November 16, 1940 and 42-0 on October 29, 1927, also in Knoxville.
Where the Vols are ranked
The Vols open the season ranked No. 10 in the USA Today Coaches Top 25 and are No. 12 in the Associated Press Top 25. Tennessee is ranked No. 6 in ESPN’s SP+ ratings, with the No. 2 offensive rating and No. 32 defensive rating.
At SEC Media Days in July, Tennessee was picked to finish second in the SEC East and fourth overall in the SEC in the preseason media poll.
The Vols received 14 first-place votes in the SEC East, finishing behind Georgia and its 265 votes. Tennessee at No. 2 came in ahead of South Carolina, Kentucky, Florida and Missouri. South Carolina received three first-place votes, Kentucky received one and Vanderbilt, picked the finish last in the division, received eight first-place votes.
Georgia was picked to win the SEC ahead of Alabama, LSU and Tennessee.
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