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Jarrett Guarantano, QB, Tennessee

    Tallied a career-high 415 passing yards to go along with two touchdowns on the SEC's No. 1 pass defense in a 24-20 victory at Missouri to give the Vols six wins and secure a bowl berth for the first time since 2016.
    Guarantano finished 23-of-40 for 415 yards and two touchdowns with zero turnovers against a Tigers' defense that entered the game allowing only 297.6 total yards, including 165.9 passing yards.
    Guarantano's performance marked the fourth-highest passing total in Tennessee history and the most passing yards in seven years. Only Peyton Manning and Tyler Bray have thrown for more yards in a single game in Tennessee history.
    Guaranto spread the ball around equally as Tennessee had three different receivers eclipse 100 yards for the first time in school history.

 

Can any of y'all recall this kind of a comeback for a TN QB?  Sample size is small, and we'll see if JG stays "good JG" or not but I can't think of another Vol QB that was unanimously exiled in the minds of fans and came back in such a huge way within the SAME SEASON.  I mean we all pretty much wished Pruitt would've kicked him off the team immediately after the Bama debacle.

Jonathan Crompton came to mind as a comparable situation to a degree, but of course that spanned multiple seasons and multiple coaches.

There was talk of benching Tee midway through ‘98. He wasn’t single handedly losing games like JG did, but he wasn’t very accurate at first, either.

Tee was almost benched at halftime against uga

Tee was never a great QB, IMO. We were willing to give him a pass at the time because he was following a legend. If the defense hadn't been so dominant and the running game hadn't been so overwhelming, how many games would we have lost that season? 3? 4? More? Nick Saban used the same model to win more than one of his NCs at Alabama -- dominant D, overpowering run game and average QB with just enough playmakers at WR to make something happen when you get the ball into their hands.

To be fair, he seemed to figure it out in time for the bammer game that year, and was pretty great after that.

Except he nearly single-handedly cost us the Arkansas game. He was terrible that day...couldn't get out of his own way.

JG will never be one of the best QB's at UT, but when it comes to heart,I think he's proved he has plenty. He has really changed my opinion of him drastically in the last few weeks. Not that he cares. The Bama thing still gives me pause though.

JG also had multiple coaches.  Four OCs in 3 years.  Granted two of them were interim, but he had two under Butch, two in Pruitt's first year, and now Chaney.  Maybe it just took Chaney the better part of the season to get JG in the groove.

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He also set a record for completions against SC.  Tee may not have been the best QB in terms of optics, but he knew how to win, and at the end of the day that's what matters.