Dylan Sampson Dominates: Tennessee Stuns Alabama Defense

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00:00This kid, Dylan Sampson, was unbelievable, 139 yards, two

00:05tutties. I thought the Vols up front were just giving him

00:10massive holes. I don't think I've ever seen a tied defense

00:16pushed around like that in the trenches in a long time. I mean,

00:21I'm talking about way before Nick Saban. I've never seen

00:24holes like that or a team, an Alabama team get kind of just

00:29beaten down by Tennessee. I thought Sampson had nice work,

00:34but it looked easy to me with some of the holes he got.

00:38Well, when you watch the Alabama come out on the field and warm

00:42up, they didn't impress you like they have in the past with those

00:46big uglies, especially on the defensive line, where they would

00:50just kind of maul you at the line of scrimmage. They have a

00:52couple of guys that are really good players up front, but they

00:54don't have the overall depth in that defensive line where they

00:58can just dominate. I mean, South Carolina, the other game

01:03started the second half and held the ball for eight and a half

01:06minutes against him. And that used to never happen against

01:08Alabama. Sampson has been a story because of the fact of

01:12he's run for 100 yards now in six of Tennessee's seven games.

01:17And a lot of his yardage, about two thirds of it, is after

01:20contact. So that means he's breaking tackles. And when

01:24there's not a hole, he creates one. And the one thing that

01:27separates him, he's got sprinter speed. I mean, he was

01:30a sprint champion out of Baton Rouge. And if he gets by that

01:33first line of defense, he's a home run hitter. So he's just

01:37been really good. Last year, he got to play some, but Jalen

01:41Wright was the featured back last year, and Wright was a

01:43thousand yard rusher, and Wright had a really good season. So

01:47Sampson had to pick and choose some of his spots where he had a

01:50chance to play, but he played well when he did. But this year,

01:54he's the featured guy. There's no question. They're riding him

01:57right now. He's the workhorse. He rushed for, what, 26 times, I

02:00guess, against Alabama. And so they're giving him the ball, and

02:04he's doing a really good job with it.