BERRY CONTINUES ASSAULT ON RECORD BOOKS
Sophomore safety Eric Berry snagged his FBS-best sixth interception of the season in the third quarter of the South Carolina game and added a 45 yard return to it. The pick was the 11th of his career, which ties him for 11th in school history in that category. The return gave him 442 career interception return yards, which extended his SEC record and moved him within 59 yards of the NCAA record held by Terrell Buckley of Florida State (501 yards).
He now has 220 interception return yards this season, which is just two yards shy of his school-record total from 2007 and only 24 yards from the SEC season record set by Florida's Joe Brodsky in 1956. Southern California's Charles Phillips set the major college season record in 1974 with 302 interception return yards.
The Tennessee record for interceptions in a season is 10, but Berry is just one pick from tying for seventh on that list (7) and three picks from tying for second (9).
Berry is tied atop the FBS this season with his six interceptions, but he is the only player with more than 200 return yards. Only seven players have more than 100 return yards and just one other player has more than 175 yards.
