Postgame Notes: Tennessee - South Carolina - University of Tennessee Athletics

TENNESSEE FOOTBALL POSTGAME NOTES: Tennessee 41, South Carolina 21
Oct. 26 | Game 8 | Knoxville, Tenn. (Neyland Stadium) | Attendance: 87,397

Tennessee Tidbits

UT is now 841-395-53. The Vols rank 10th all-time in wins among NCAA Division I programs.
Tennessee stands 470-134-17 at Neyland Stadium, possessing the second-most wins of any program at a current stadium.

Vol Captains/Coin Toss

Tennessee's captains for Saturday's game against Alabama were seniors Marquez Callaway, Brandon Kennedy, Darrell Taylor and Nigel Warrior.
Tennessee won the toss and deferred to the second half, defending the South end zone.

Freshman Starts

Jaylen McCollough became the seventh true freshman to start this season, making his first-career start Saturday night against South Carolina. He joins Henry To'o To'o, Wanya Morris, Darnell Wright, Warren Burrell, Quavaris Crouch and Brian Maurer.

Offensive Highlights

Tennessee opened the game with redshirt senior wide receiver Jauan Jennings at quarterback. Jennings rushed for 11 yards on the Vols' first offensive snap out of the wildcat formation. Redshirt freshman quarterback J.T. Shrout then took the second offensive snap at quarterback. Jennings added a 1-yard rush on the first offensive series and completed a pass to Marquez Callaway that was negated by a penalty. Jennings' opening snap marked the first time the Vols opened a game in the wildcat formation since Oct. 3, 2009 when freshman wide receiver Nu'Keese Richardson took the opening snap 41 yards against Auburn.
Jennings is the third different Vol to start a game at quarterback this season, joining redshirt junior Jarrett Guarantano (four starts) and freshman Brian Maurer (three starts).
The 2019 season marks the first time since 2004 that Tennessee has recorded wins with three different starting quarterbacks (Brent Schaeffer, Erik Ainge and Rick Clausen).
J.T. Shrout recorded his first career touchdown pass on a 55-yard throw to Marquez Callaway in the third quarter. Callaway also scored on a 65-yard punt return in the second quarter to give the Vols a 10-7 lead.
Jarrett Guarantano went 11-of-19 for 229 yards, becoming the 11th player in program history to throw for 4,000 yards.
Jarrett Guarantano (229) and J.T. Shrout (122) are the first UT duo since Josh Dobbs and Quinten Dormady to throw for over 100 yards in the same game. Dobbs (183 yards) and Dormady (109 yards) both went for over 100 against Tennessee Tech on Nov. 5, 2016.
The Vols recorded a season-high 351 yards passing.
Jauan Jennings scored his 16^th-career touchdown on a 27-yard reception from Guarantano, capping off a two-play, 75-yard drive in the second quarter. Jennings found the end zone again on a 19-yard reception from Guarantano in the third quarter to move into a tie for eighth in program history in touchdown receptions, tying Robert Meachem (2004-06). It marks the second time this season that Jennings has caught a pair of touchdowns in the same game. Jennings is the first Tennessee receiver to record two games of multiple touchdowns on two occasions in the same year since Josh Malone in 2016.
Jennings finished with seven catches and a career-best 174 receiving yards to move into 10^th all-time at Tennessee in career receiving yards with 1,836, surpassing Anthony Hancock (1978-81) who totaled 1,826. His performance Saturday was the most receiving yards for the Vols since Cordarrelle Patterson recorded 219 yards on Nov. 3, 2012 versus Troy. Four of Jennings' touchdown receptions during his career have come against South Carolina.
Jennings' 174-yard performance is the most receiving yards by a Tennessee player in an SEC game since Denarius Moore had 228 at South Carolina in 2010.
Jennings recorded 113-yards receiving in the first half to mark the second time in his career that he surpassed the 100-yard threshold in the opening two quarters. The last time was against No. 1 Alabama on Oct. 20, 2018, when he tallied 102 yards.
Jennings and Callaway combined for 276 yards receiving against the Gamecocks, marking the second time this season that the senior duo each recorded 100-plus yards in the same game. It marks the first time that the Vols have had two receivers both record 100-plus yards in the same game twice during the same season since 2012.
Junior wideout Josh Palmer hauled in a career-high five receptions to finish with 55 yards. It marks the second time this season that three receivers have recorded 50-plus yards in a game. The first time was against Georgia State (Jennings (108), Dominick Wood-Anderson (79), Eric Gray (51)).
Junior running back Tim Jordan recorded his first start since Nov. 3, 2018, when the Vols defeated Charlotte.
Redshirt junior offensive lineman Jahmir Johnson saw action for the first time since the Vols played BYU on Sept. 7.

Defensive Highlights

Darrell Taylor sacked South Carolina's Ryan Hilinski for the second time of the game in the third quarter, giving him his fifth multi-sack game of his career. Taylor finished the night with four total tackles, two TFLs and two pass breakups.
Daniel Bituli posted 11 tackles in the first half Saturday, finishing with 15. It is the second-highest total of his career behind his 23 total tackles against Georgia Tech on Sept. 4, 2017.
Nigel Warrior finished the night as UT's second leading tackler, notching 10 total tackles, including a tackle for loss.
Jaylen McCollough made his first-career start Saturday, posting five total tackles.
Tennessee's defense forced six three-and-outs Saturday.
UT's defense had seven pass breakups on the night on its way to shutting out the Gamecocks in the second half.

Special Teams Highlights

Marquez Callaway returned a punt 65 yards for his third punt return touchdown of his career. He is now tied for second in school history in punt return touchdowns with Cameron Sutton and Stanley Morgan. All three of his returns for touchdowns have been for 60 or more yards.
In the fourth quarter, Daniel Bituli blocked a punt and recovered it in the end zone for a touchdown. It was his second career touchdown and Tennessee's second blocked punt returned for a touchdown this season.
Brent Cimaglia was 5-for-5 on PATs, improving UT's nation-leading streak to 208 consecutive made extra points.

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Postgame Notes: Tennessee - South Carolina

Players Mentioned

Daniel Bituli

Warren Burrell

Marquez Callaway

Brent Cimaglia

Quavaris Crouch

Eric Gray

Jarrett Guarantano

Jauan Jennings

Jahmir Johnson

Tim Jordan

Brandon Kennedy

Brian Maurer

Jaylen McCollough

Wanya Morris

Josh Palmer

J.T. Shrout

Darrell Taylor

Henry To'o To'o

Nigel Warrior

Dominick Wood-Anderson

Darnell Wright

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