started league play in style, spoiling the party in Norman by defeating Oklahoma in its first-ever SEC game on Saturday night. The return of Sooners hero Josh Heupel, the fourth-year head coach of the Vols, was the storyline ahead of kickoff, but by the end of the night it was the dominant Tennessee defense that was the primary talking point after leading the way to the program’s first road win against a top-15 team since 2006. The performance and result led to Tennessee moving up one spot to No. 5 in the Associated Press Top 25 and rising one spot to No. 6 in the US LBM Coaches Poll – both new rankings were released on Sunday afternoon.
Oklahoma was one of xx ranked losers over the weekend – the others were No. 22 Nebraska (to No. 24 Illinois at home on Friday night), No. 11 USC (at No. 18 Michigan), No. 14 Oklahoma State (to No. 12 Utah at home), No. 13 Kansas State (at BYU) and No. 23 Northern Illinois (to Buffalo at home).
The Sooners dropped six spots in the AP Top 25 and five spots in the Coaches Poll after a rare home defeat…