The Weekly Rant

By JOHN MOOREHOUSE What a fantastic weekend of football it was. Not the college games, mind you. I’m talking about the NFL playoffs. Here in East Tennessee, where I live, …

By JOHN MOOREHOUSE Seeing Anthony Poindexter named to the Tennessee coaching staff for the 2026 season sparked a trip down memory lane for me. Poindexter went to Virginia, like me, …

By JOHN MOOREHOUSE The headline says it all, folks. “Die Hard” is a Christmas movie. It may not be Festivus, but I’m here to air my grievances about the “Die …

By JOHN MOOREHOUSE Another Heisman Trophy ceremony is in the books, but even though he didn’t win the award, Diego Pavia successfully hijacked the attention during Heisman weekend with his antics …

By JOHN MOOREHOUSE The reveal of the 12-team College Football Playoff bracket was a big ol’ mess. And that’s exactly how the power brokers in the sport want it. How …

The influx of NIL (which should stand for Now It’s Legal) money has altered almost everything about college sports. On Saturday, the changes wrought in college football produced two results …

By JOHN MOOREHOUSE You know things are going well when members of Vol Nation start posting “Smells Like 98!” The aroma emanating from Rocky Top right now is more familiar. …