Heupel Sees Bye Week as Chance for Tennessee to Clean Up Penalties

Tennessee head coach Josh Heupel has addressed how the Volunteers can work on correcting their penalties during the bye week. The comments put the focus on an area the team can use the break in the schedule to address before it returns to action.

An open week gives a coaching staff time away from preparing for a specific opponent to look back at its own play. For Tennessee, penalties are part of that self-evaluation, and Heupel's remarks centered on how the Vols can improve in that area during the time off.

Cleaning up penalties would matter for Tennessee once play resumes, because avoiding setbacks of that kind helps an offense and defense stay on schedule. How much progress the Vols make will only become clear in their next game after the bye.