Tennessee’s announcement of a 10% talent fee on 2025 football season tickets to help pay players could have been considered inevitable in the still-evolving era of name, image and likeness compensation.

The Spartans running back capped his career with more than 3,000 yards.

The University of Tennessee is set to honor three UVA football players who were murdered in a horrific shooting on UVA Grounds last year, NBC 29 reports.

Winning pitcher Andrew Abbott became the first pitcher in the Virginia program to collect 10 strikeouts in a College World Series game.

The Flames bats fell flat against the Volunteers pitching.

Nebraska’s search for an identity in a changing college football landscape. On the latest AP Top 25 College Football Podcast, Steven Godfrey of Banner Society joins the AP’s Ralph Russo to take on the task of finding each conference’s most egregious underachiever. And how USC being unable to maximize its potential hurts all of college football. Plus, new Vanderbilt coach Clark Lea joins the show and shares his vision for transforming the Commodores. ___Follow Ralph D. Russo at https://twitter.com/ralphDrussoAP and listen at https://westwoodonepodcasts.com/pods/ap-top-25-college-football-podcast/Ad___More AP college football: https://apnews.com/Collegefootball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25

New Tennessee NCAA college football head coach Josh Heupel, left, shakes hands with University of Tennessee athletics director Danny White after being presented a jersey speaks during an introductory press conference at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. (Caitie McLekin/Knoxville News Sentinel via AP, Pool)Josh Heupel believes he can win quickly at Tennessee and position the football program for long-term success. Heupel was introduced Wednesday as the program's 27th head coach and fifth, not counting interim or acting coaches, since the end of the 2008 season. New athletic director Danny White said Tennessee ran an “exhaustive nationwide search” led by the same search firm that helped land White. White was hired last week to replace the retiring Phillip Fulmer and hiring a new coach was his first task.

A boy's homemade "U.T." design that was turned into an official University of Tennessee T-shirt has been selling wildly, according to the school. (CNN) - Members of the University of Tennessee marching band got to be some of the first people to wear the wildly popular anti-bullying T-shirt inspired by a 4th-grade fan, who was teased for his homemade shirt. A fan in Florida drew worldwide attention earlier this month after he was teased for pinning a hand-drawn U.T. The university adopted the boy's shirt as an official school design and says it has taken more than 50,000 pre-orders.

A boy's homemade "U.T." design that was turned into an official University of Tennessee T-shirt has been selling wildly, according to the school. ROANOKE, Va. - A young University of Tennessee fan is getting the opportunity of a lifetime. Many at this point have heard the boy's story: He created his own homemade UT T-shirt and was bullied for it. So far, more than 50,000 shirts featuring the boy's design have been presold, according to the University of Tennessee.

A boy's homemade "U.T." design that was turned into an official University of Tennessee T-shirt has been selling wildly, according to the school. (CNN) - Most elementary school kids don't have their college plans firmed up, but the University of Tennessee super-fan who was bullied for his homemade T-shirt can mark that off of his list. It also adopted the homemade UT logo as an official design and has pre-sold more than 50,000 shirts since it went on sale online. The school will pay for the boy's scholarship with money from other sources, the statement said.

A boy's homemade "U.T." design that was turned into an official University of Tennessee T-shirt has been selling wildly, according to the school. (CNN) - A T-shirt inspired by a young Tennessee Volunteer fan, who was bullied for his homemade design, is selling wildly after news of the boy's creativity and team spirit went viral. The boy drew his own version of the UT logo on a piece of paper and pinned it to an orange T-shirt. Smokey, the University of Tennessee's costumed mascot, wore his own homemade paper logo in a video posted over the weekend thanking the boy for his support.

design is being turned into an official University of Tennessee T-shirt. "When the day finally arrived, he was SO EXCITED to show me his shirt," Snyder wrote Wednesday on Facebook. "Share in a Florida elementary student's Volunteer pride by wearing his design on your shirt too!," the university's official campus store said on Twitter. According to the university, a portion of the proceeds from every shirt sold will go to an anti-bullying foundation. Randy Boyd, interim university president, even chimed in, tweeting that he was "touched" by the student's story and "loved his imagination behind designing his own shirt."