Josh Heupel's Blueprint At Tennessee: His Younger Self
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Wondery
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🗓️ 21 October 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Tennessee turned a whole lot of heads last weekend, outlasting previously undefeated Alabama in a 52-49 shootout for the ages. And among the throngs of students and clouds of cigar smoke that enveloped the field after the win was head coach Josh Heupel, who took a moment to savor the win -- and perhaps experience some deja vu. That's because what Heupel has done in his first two years in Tennessee is eerily similar, at least so far, to what he did in his first two years as a quarterback at Oklahoma. The Athletic's Joe Rexrode joins us today to explain the uncanny parallels, and to discuss whether Josh Heupel of today can do what Josh Heupel of 2000 did, and win an improbable national championship.
Read Joe Rexrode's full story about Josh Heupel, past and present:
https://theathletic.com/3639769/2022/10/05/tennessee-josh-heupel-sec-football/
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| 0:40.6 | Last weekend, Tennessee beat undefeated Alabama in what was clearly the college football |
| 0:45.5 | game of the year so far. |
| 0:46.8 | There were huge momentum swings, historic individual performances and an epic battle |
| 0:59.9 | that ended with a squibbed, but somehow good Tennessee field goal. |
| 1:12.3 | To many college football fans, it was a surprising upset. |
| 1:15.2 | To Tennessee coach Josh Hyple, who was in just his second year with the balls, it's |
| 1:19.7 | right where he expected them to be. |
| 1:23.7 | Today, the athletics Joe Rex Road explains how the balls have gotten so good, so quickly |
| 1:37.0 | under Hyple. |
| 1:38.3 | What makes the hard to read coach tick? |
| 1:40.5 | The almost ery similarities between Hyple the coach and Hyple the player. |
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