Clemson DE KJ Henry jokes about Joe Milton's orange toss, suggests promising baseball career

The Tennessee Volunteers have a pronounced advantage on offense and should be able to exploit an inexperienced and undermanned Virginia Cavaliers secondary. Joe Milton will look to make his mark in his Vols debut. Last year felt like a coronation of sorts for the Tennessee Volunteers. After a dominating season that saw Tennessee beat rival Alabama…

A long eight months of waiting is almost over. Tennessee football returns to the field Saturday when they take on Virginia at Nissan Stadium in Nashville. The Vols enter Josh Heupel's third season with increased expectations after a resurgent 2023 season. Still, there are questions about this team and few outside the Anderson Training Center are…

As the 2023 college football season rapidly approaches, Alabama Football does not have a Heisman Trophy contender at quarterback. Look hard enough and you can find some longshot Heisman odds for Jalen Milroe and Ty Simpson, but only on lists of 50 or more names. College football'experts' project that Tennessee Vol QB Joe Milton is a credible…

When BetOnline announced its 2023 Heisman Trophy odds back in January, just after the 2022 college football season had ended, Joe Milton III was tied for seventh on the list at 20/1 odds. North Carolina quarterback Drake Maye was the favorite at 5/1. USC's Caleb Williams had 6/1 odds to repeat as the Heisman winner. Florida State quarterback Jordan…

With spring turning to summer the college football offseason is hitting full gear. Las Vegas sports books are helping people scratch their college football itch by releasing game lines for a number of week one games. Tennessee football opened as 27-point favorites in its season opener against Virginia in Nashville according to Draft Kings. The Vols…

Tennessee football begins its spring practice Monday morning as the college football regular season is still over five months away. But that isn't stopping sportsbooks from putting out lines and team regular season over/unders. FanDuel released a number of regular season over/under Thursday morning including Tennessee. The sportsbook set the Vols…

Hendon Hooker and Joe Milton have a lot in common. Both transferred to Tennessee after getting benched at their respective Power 5 programs in 2020. They lived together and became close friends despite the sometimes awkward circumstances surrounding their shared desire to lead Josh Heupel's offense. They're both pass-first, mobile quarterbacks who…

The 2022 college football season is barely behind us, but all eyes are already on 2023. For Tennessee, the offseason will be all about an offensive transition - at least from a personnel standpoint. Hendon Hooker, Cedric Tillman, Jalin Hyatt, Darnell Wright and Jerome Carvin will be moving on to the NFL this spring, leaving plenty of shoes to fill…

Tennessee Volunteers quarterback Hendon hooker led the team to one of their best performances in recent history. Unfortunately, due to an ACL injury, he was unable to finish the journey. In steps backup quarterback and Hooker's roommate Joe Milton to lead Tennessee to a 31-14 victory in the Orange Bowl over Clemson. After the game, Milton broke…

The Tennessee Volunteers left no doubt as to which team was the better one on Friday night inside Hard Rock Stadium as the Vols laid down a 31-14 beatdown of the Clemson Tigers to earn the Orange Bowl win. Dabo Swinney's gang came in toting the ACC championship trophy as well as an edge in the betting odds, but alas, Rocky Top prevailed. ESPN's…

Friday night's Orange Bowl presented a huge opportunity for Tennessee quarterback Joe Milton. A chance to stake his claim as QB1 for the Volunteers heading into next season. With Hendon Hooker sidelined with a knee injury in Tennessee's loss to South Carolina back in November, Milton stepped into the starting lineup for the Volunteers to close out…

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - Tennessee's defense spent much of Friday night's Orange Bowl bending and bending, but the Volunteers never broke. Despite yielding 484 yards to Atlantic Coast Conference champion Clemson, the No. 6 Vols held the No. 7 Tigers without a touchdown until 10 minutes remained in claiming a 31-14 victory before 63912 at Hard Rock…

The Clemson Tigers and Tennessee Volunteers will both look different from what fans are used to when they meet in Friday's Orange Bowl. Check out below for our top Tennessee-Clemson college football picks based on the best NCAAF odds. The first New Year's Six Bowl takes place Friday night with the Volunteers set to battle the Tigers. Only five…

The first New Year's Six Bowl game of this postseason headlines the slate on Friday when No. 6 Tennessee and No. 7 Clemson meet in the Orange Bowl. The Volunteers had eyes on a College Football Playoff berth deep into November, but a blowout loss to South Carolina ended those hopes. The Tigers returned to the top of the ACC thanks to the work of…

A best bet for the Orange Bowl, featuring an ACC-SEC battle between two top-10 teams in favored Clemson and Tennessee. Two top-10 squads square off in the 2022 Orange Bowl when No. 6 Tennessee faces No. 7 Clemson. Tennessee brings the No. 1 scoring offense (47.3 ppg) in the nation into the Orange Bowl to face off against the country's No. 18…

Two storied teams, No. 6 Tennessee (10-2) and No. 7 Clemson (11-2), will meet for the 20th time during the 2022 Capital One Orange Bowl on Dec. 30 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. Both programs are returnees to the Orange Bowl. Tennessee is set for its fifth appearance in the Orange Bowl, while it will be the seventh for Clemson. The…

The Opponent: Clemson University was founded in 1889 by Thomas Green Clemson, a wise man who married into considerable money. According to research, Mr. Clemson's Will explicitly directed that the school be modeled after Mississippi State University. Talk about aiming high. In 100+ years since, Clemson has grown into South Carolina's second-largest…

Miami is set for one of the juicier matchups of the college bowl season on Friday. Tennessee faces Clemson in what may be the orangest Orange Bowl in the game's 87-year history. Our Orange Bowl preview shows how it will be the culmination of an interesting season for each team. For Josh Heupel's orange and white squad, this season was the…

The Tennessee Volunteers are set to take on the Clemson Tigers in the Orange Bowl this Friday night. Get in on all the Tennessee vs Clemson action. Tennessee (10-2) last put up 56 points in a shutout victory over Vanderbilt. While Clemson (11-2) laid waste to UNC 39-10 in the ACC Championship on December 3rd. The Orange Bowl airs live from Hard…

Nick Carner from Tennessee's SB Nation site Rocky Top Talk stops by to talk about the game from a Vols perspective. Matt Goldin: If you had asked most Vol fans before the season how they would feel about a 10-win season, win over Bama, and an appearance in the Orange Bowl, I'm sure they would be thrilled. However, given how this season has gone,…

No. 6 Tennessee takes on No. 7 Clemson in the Capital One Orange Bowl at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla., on Thursday. Game time is scheduled for 7:30 p.m., and it will be televised on ESPN. Clemson (11-2) won the ACC championship under Dabo Swinney, and the Tigers are back in a New Year's Day Six bowl. The Tigers will have a new…

There's no doubt Joe Milton III has elite arm strength. The redshirt senior quarterback can make your jaw drop with his magnificent deep balls like he did this season against Missouri and Akron though he can also struggle to contain his massive arm tossing overthrows. While he prepares to make his fourth career Tennessee start in the Orange Bowl,…

Clemson Football takes on the Tennessee Volunteers in the Orange Bowl on December 30th. Clemson fans are excited and I am no different. I have already started to ponder this matchup between Top 10 teams. I have approached this game thinking that Clemson would likely have an advantage for a few reasons. I think Clemson's offense responded well to…

The Tennessee Vols are just two weeks away from a showdown with the Clemson Tigers in the Orange Bowl in Miami. If Tennessee takes down Clemson, it'll give the Vols their 11th win of the season. It would be the first time since 2001 that Tennessee's got to 11 wins. Beating Clemson, however, will be a challenge. The Tigers looked like a different…

Tennessee will play in one of the top non-semifinal matchups of college football's bowl season after landing in the Capital One Orange Bowl against Clemson. The sixth-ranked Vols opened as a 4.5-point underdog against the seventh-ranked ACC champion Tigers shortly after the pairing was officially announced, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. The…