Tennessee’s Jalen Hurd expected to play vs. No. 1 Alabama

It was Alabama’s eighth defensive score in seven games this season and extend the Tide’s streak of games with a non-offensive touchdown to nine. The Volunteers face the top dog in the SEC this Saturday hosting the Alabama Crimson Tide.

“It’ll be a good game up until halftime, maybe the third quarter, but we’ll run away with it at the end”, he said. The Vols’ injury woes mean that a number of backups will see significant time against the best team in the nation.

If there is one player that truly personifies this year’s Tennessee team, it’s Malik Foreman. For many fans, this is still about the return of Kiffin, who famously bolted from the Volunteers to USC after just one season as the team’s head coach.

The Alabama Crimson Tide (6-0) are coming from a 49-30 victory over the Arkansas Razorback in week 6.

On the offense, Alabama football averages 252.8 yards in passing and 237.0 yards in rushing.

This marks Tennessee’s fourth straight game against a ranked foe. Vanderbilt and Kentucky are both still very bad college football teams.

No. 1 Alabama and quarterback Jalen Hurts must not have read about No. 9 Tennessee’s second-half comebacks. Or do they? Bama has been torched by SEC teams, excluding Kentucky, through the air to the tune of almost 400 yards a game. Alabama is balanced, big up front and has gotten great play from quarterback Jalen Hurts this season, so they will be looking to put up points.

The 5-1 Tennessee Volunteers are hoping to play spoiler to Bama’s undefeated season today in Rocky Top.

Ohio State beat IN 44-3 that week, and eventual Heisman Trophy victor Troy Smith threw for 220 yards and four touchdowns.

The freshman running back has emerged as one of the top rushers in the SEC.

Then again, Alabama allows so few completions to start with that this has hardly mattered much. On defense they held their own in the first half before completely unraveling in the second half. Tennessee is 4-1 ATS in their last 5 conference games and 7-19-1 ATS in their last 27 games following an ATS win. This week, against a Tennessee secondary that is without its most experienced cornerback in senior Cameron Sutton, look for Ridley to have plenty of opportunities to get loose.

In terms of our opponent-adjusted yards per pass metric, Alabama’s defense is 25th.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee running back Alvin Kamara wants to carry the momentum of a career-best performance into Saturday’s showdown with his former team.

Nebraska 27, IN 22 – Terrell Newby ran for one score and Tommy Armstrong Jr. hooked up with Stanley Morgan Jr. on a 72-yard touchdown pass with 9:57 left to play, helping the No. 10 Cornhusters (6-0, 3-0 Big Ten) hold off the host Hoosiers (3-3, 1-2).

Should Florida not play LSU and avoid a potential loss and run the table on the rest of the SEC schedule here is what ESPN says could occur.