#15 Tennessee Volunteers dominate Chattanooga Mocs 69-3 in season opener

coverage of Chattanooga and Tennesseee football on local 3 is brought to you by Warren and Griffin your local five-star Law Firm for only the third time since 1969 the Mox and Bs will play each other in football and what a treat in week one of the Season let's just cut to the chase this isn't the 50s anymore Tennessee was supposed to win this game and they did but it doesn't mean the mocks can't take the experience with them and learn for more from Rocky toop we turn to Samantha Cassano the mocks knew they would have their hands full against a very talented Tennessee team but I don't know if they necessarily expected to be down 45 Nothing by the time halftime rolled around the BS looked every bit worthy of their top 15 ranking and while Chattanooga came into this game searching for their identity a 69-3 loss may leave them with more questions than answers Rusty Wright leading the mocks into battle fall starting quarterback nicoo IAM malava making his first start at nean stadium and qb1 couldn't ask for a much better start than the one that he got opening drive IAM malava hands the ball off to Dylan Samson who punches it in from one yard out the first six points of the Season fittingly belong to number six Chattanooga looking to answer Chase artopia playing in his first game since November 4th of last year artopia gives it to Reggie Davis who's met by a host of Tennessee Defenders the ball is fumbled and recovered by the alls the orange and white capitalize on that MOX mistake iamal Ava sends a short pass to Ethan Davis in the end zone just like that UT is up 14 zip they lead 24 nothing after one second quarter now Nico finds Dante thoron for his second touchdown of the day the balls are up 45 at the break chattano tries to climb out of that deficit at least as much as they can in the third Jude Kelly knocks the 43 yard field goal through the uprights the mocks finally on the board in the fourth Gaston Mo's pass is intercepted by Kobe Joseph the senior linebacker uses some juice before getting taken down all the way at the 10 but that mountain just way too much to overcome Tennessee takes down Chattanooga 693 the final we're not very smart we're not a smart we're not we're not smart football players yet we don't understand concepts of things and how things should happen and how they should all play out there towards the end we work hard on it uh I thought we were a little better at that they're really good team you know so you got to be on your aame coming into play any type of Team like this and uh obviously we weren't today so I think we definitely got exposed um some of our things that we did we just didn't do it good enough against them and they did it better than us it was nothing but positives for Tennessee the BS finished with over 700 total yards IAM malava had 313 passing yards breaking a record for the most and a half by a UT quarterback ever yeah man it's was clol to real moment I I didn't even know about it but uh felt good to go out there and operate with my teammates I mean he was a electri you know so we going we going to keep it rolling and you know we got weapons around him to help him grow even better so yeah y'all going to see a lot more of that Tennessee will now head to Charlotte to face number 22 NC State next Saturday the mock will head to Atlanta to Face Georgia State for now at nean stadium in Knoxville Smith Ceno local three Sports tough one for the mocks but like we said all week they were supposed to lose we'll see if they could use something from this one moving forward