5. Tennessee can get recruits over anybody
This wasn’t really in doubt coming into 2016’s class, but Jones again showed that he can recruit against anybody. He went head-to-head with Alabama, Georgia, Auburn, Ole Miss, USC, Ohio State, Miami and many other powerhouse programs around the nation and had victories against all of them in some capacity. Jones hasn’t been able to build three consecutive top-15 classes by taking a bunch of unheralded sleepers away from lower-tier programs. He’s had to regularly go against, and beat, the best on the recruiting trail.
