Tennessee’s announcement of a 10% talent fee on 2025 football season tickets to help pay players could have been considered inevitable in the still-evolving era of name, image and likeness compensation.

Guard/forward Rennia Davis is now signed with the Indiana Fever, while guard Bria Hartley has also been waived, according to a team press release.

Nebraska’s search for an identity in a changing college football landscape. On the latest AP Top 25 College Football Podcast, Steven Godfrey of Banner Society joins the AP’s Ralph Russo to take on the task of finding each conference’s most egregious underachiever. And how USC being unable to maximize its potential hurts all of college football. Plus, new Vanderbilt coach Clark Lea joins the show and shares his vision for transforming the Commodores. ___Follow Ralph D. Russo at https://twitter.com/ralphDrussoAP and listen at https://westwoodonepodcasts.com/pods/ap-top-25-college-football-podcast/Ad___More AP college football: https://apnews.com/Collegefootball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25

New Tennessee NCAA college football head coach Josh Heupel, left, shakes hands with University of Tennessee athletics director Danny White after being presented a jersey speaks during an introductory press conference at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. If anything, I was trying not to hire the coach from UCF.”White hired Heupel on Wednesday as Tennessee's 27th head coach and fifth coach, not counting interim or acting coaches, since the end of the 2008 season. Heupel said he wasn't deterred by the NCAA investigation that started with the firing of Tennessee's last coach, Jeremy Pruitt. “I believe in a very, very bright future for Tennessee football,” Heupel said. White was hired on Jan. 21 and his first job was to find a new coach.

A boy's homemade "U.T." design that was turned into an official University of Tennessee T-shirt has been selling wildly, according to the school. (CNN) - Members of the University of Tennessee marching band got to be some of the first people to wear the wildly popular anti-bullying T-shirt inspired by a 4th-grade fan, who was teased for his homemade shirt. A fan in Florida drew worldwide attention earlier this month after he was teased for pinning a hand-drawn U.T. The university adopted the boy's shirt as an official school design and says it has taken more than 50,000 pre-orders.

A boy's homemade "U.T." design that was turned into an official University of Tennessee T-shirt has been selling wildly, according to the school. (CNN) - Most elementary school kids don't have their college plans firmed up, but the University of Tennessee super-fan who was bullied for his homemade T-shirt can mark that off of his list. It also adopted the homemade UT logo as an official design and has pre-sold more than 50,000 shirts since it went on sale online. The school will pay for the boy's scholarship with money from other sources, the statement said.

A boy's homemade "U.T." design that was turned into an official University of Tennessee T-shirt has been selling wildly, according to the school. (CNN) - A T-shirt inspired by a young Tennessee Volunteer fan, who was bullied for his homemade design, is selling wildly after news of the boy's creativity and team spirit went viral. The boy drew his own version of the UT logo on a piece of paper and pinned it to an orange T-shirt. Smokey, the University of Tennessee's costumed mascot, wore his own homemade paper logo in a video posted over the weekend thanking the boy for his support.

design is being turned into an official University of Tennessee T-shirt. "When the day finally arrived, he was SO EXCITED to show me his shirt," Snyder wrote Wednesday on Facebook. "Share in a Florida elementary student's Volunteer pride by wearing his design on your shirt too!," the university's official campus store said on Twitter. According to the university, a portion of the proceeds from every shirt sold will go to an anti-bullying foundation. Randy Boyd, interim university president, even chimed in, tweeting that he was "touched" by the student's story and "loved his imagination behind designing his own shirt."

Jarrett Guarantano #2 of the Tennessee Volunteers looks to pass during a game against the East Tennessee State University Buccaneers at Neyland Stadium on September 8, 2018 in Knoxville, Tennessee. "Obviously, Zach Wilson made some mistakes and he'd like to take some of them back," BYU coach Kalani Sitake. Tennessee LB Henry To'o is the first true freshman to lead the team in tackles (seven) in a season opener since 1996. BYU TE Matt Bushman led the team with six catches for 62 yards in the opener. PREDICTION: Tennessee 23, BYU 20More college football scoresCopyright 2019 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.