re: How/why does Tennessee have 33 signees?

As I understand it, SEC teams can back count EE's one year if they signed less than 25 in the prior years class. In 2012 and 2013 Rivals shows that Tennessee had 22 each year. If they had at least 3 EE's in 2013 they would have counted them as 2012. Then they could count 6 EE's of the 33 this year as 2013. That gets them to 31. I don't know how far back this 25 limit goes. Rivals numbers could be wrong. They most likely figure a couple want work out and or have the grades.