Vols' statistical rankings after Week Three

What are the areas in which the Tennessee Vols are not living up to the expectations set by last year's team? Here's a look at their statistical rankings in every official NCAA category after the game against the Ohio Bobcats.

What Tennessee is currently doing well

So the Vols are especially good at a couple of categories at which almost everyone is still tied at #1 and the turnover categories about which everyone agrees much (most?) of it is luck. The Red Zone Offense category is the most legit of all of these, though, with the Vols one of 23 teams getting some kind of score every time they get close. Plus, nine of their 11 red zone trips have resulted in touchdowns rather than field goals. That's good.

Where Tennessee needs major improvement

The oddest thing about this table is that it's showing the list of the things Tennessee is currently terrible at and yet shows that they were the opposite of terrible at many of them last year. Jones' teams have been consistently well-disciplined from a penalty perspective but uncharacteristically have totally tanked in that so far this season. You'd think that those things are easily correctable, too, but we'll see. They could gain an extra 70 yards per game just by eliminating penalties.

THE BIG FAT MIDDLE

This much middling heading into the meat of the SEC schedule is concerning.

Players in the Top 30

Josh Malone is somewhat quietly becoming a real difference-maker on offense for the Vols.