Tennessee opens a season of greater expectations on Thursday night at Neyland Stadium.The ninth-ranked Volunteers draw Appalachian State, the Sun Belt powerhouse which went 11-2 last season and has the talent to make the Tennessee nervous entering the first game on the SEC Network this season (7:30 p.m. ET).Everyones optimistic. For the first time Thursday night, well put our initial football identity on video. Were responsible for what we create so were looking forward to that, Volunteers coach Butch Jones said.The talk of Tennessee this week is not just the opener, but next weeks Battle At Bristol, when the Vols play Virginia Tech at the fabled racetrack with a crowd in excess of 100,000 expected to be on hand.Jones said no one in his locker room is looking ahead. Appalachian State is a run-based offense and led the Sun Belt in red-zone defense. On film, Jones said, they already look like they belong.Appalachian State is coached by Scott Satterfield, who played quarterback at the school and is in the programs third season since jumping from the FCS. He seeks the biggest win the program has had since beating Michigan in Ann Arbor, nine years to the day from Thursdays kickoff. App State is 0-5 against Power Five programs since that landmark win.Every time we play a Power Five school it gets brought up, Satterfield said. I think in a way it kind of hurts us because everybody always references that game to their team.Only 160 miles separate Appalachian States campus from University of Tennessee in Knoxville. The talent gap might not be as great as the uninitiated believe, either.The Mountaineers arrive having won 17 of their last 19 games and 17 starters return from the team that beat Ohio in the 2015 Raycom Media Camellia Bowl. Appalachian State was the preseason pick to win the Sun Belt Conference and boasts both of the leagues preseason players of the year in running back Marcus Cox and linebacker John Law.Cox has three 1,000-yard seasons and has a career average of 113.6 rushing yards per game. At this pace, hell be the all-time leading rusher in Mountaineers history by midseason. At 168.4 yards per game, Tennessees run defense was 65th in the national last season.That porous defense caused Jones to make a change on defense, hiring coordinator Bob Shoop away from Penn State for matchups like this one. Shoop declared this offseason, nobody will run the football on Tennessee.It helps to have a loaded front seven and talent galore at every level of the two-deep.Tennessee will honor former Vols offensive tackle Chad Clifton, who played in the NFL with the Green Bay Packers, and late womens basketball coach Pat Summitt. Players will wear a cursive P decal on their helmets this season in memory of Summitt, who died June 28. Hydro Flask Outlet . -- Claudio Bieler hadnt scored since early September, and not from the run of play since mid-July. Hydro Flask Sale Near Me . Klitschkos management company says the bout will be the Ukrainian fighters 25th world championship fight. The 1.83-meter (6-foot) Leapai defeated the previously unbeaten Denis Boytsov in November to become the WBOs mandatory challenger. http://www.wholesalehydroflaskuk.com/ . LOUIS -- The New Orleans Saints looked like a team playing out the string. Hydro Flask Coffee Uk .ca. Hey Kerry, big fan of yours, just finished reading your book. I think that we all saw the Canucks/Flames line brawl just after puck drop. It was obvious that something was about to happen, even to the referees because the fourth lines were on to start. Hydro Flask Uk . Meanwhile, there were huge victories for Sunderland and West Ham over fellow relegation rivals, leaving the battle to avoid the drop up for grabs with the bottom 11 teams separated by just six points. Eden Hazard and Fernando Torres scored second-half goals to seal a fourth straight victory for Chelsea, which climbed above Arsenal and Manchester City in the standings ahead of their games on Monday and Sunday respectively. MIAMI -- As the baseball world mourned the death of Jose Fernandez, a beachgoer found a bag containing four baseballs signed by the Marlins 24-year-old pitcher.WSVN-TV reports a black bag containing Jose Fernandezs checkbook and four autographed baseballs apparently washed ashore on Miami Beach not far from the site the pitchers boat slammed into a jetty early Sunday. Fernandez and two friends were killed.Ocean Rescue Division Chief Vincent Canosa tells WSVN the bag was giiven to a lifeguard and that it apparently came from the boat.ddddddddddddFernandez had been scheduled to start Monday nights game against the New York Mets. Instead, his teammates honored him in an emotional pre-game ceremony. The players took the field, tears in their eyes, wearing black jerseys with the number 16 and Fernandezs name on back. ' ' '