{"id":306489,"date":"2026-06-13T17:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T17:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/306489\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T17:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T17:06:09","slug":"florida-state-commits-outfit-during-official-visit-to-tennessee-is-causing-some-major-panic-in-tallahassee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/306489\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida State commit&#8217;s outfit during official visit to Tennessee is causing some major panic in Tallahassee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tennessee Volunteers are hoping to flip a 2027 recruit who is from the Chattanooga area from the Florida State Seminoles, and it looks like UT is pushing all of the right buttons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Tennessee Vols are hoping to flip a three-star commit from the Florida State Seminoles.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">And it looks like the Vols are trending to do just that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2027 three-star athlete Dayon Cooper \u2014 who can play wide receiver or cornerback \u2014 has been committed to Florida State since April (FSU is recruiting Cooper as a cornerback), but the Volunteers are hoping to change that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cooper, 6-foot\/180 pounds from South Pittsburg, TN, is rated as the No. 22 player in the state of Tennessee. He\u2019s in Knoxville this weekend for his official visit with the Vols.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">And his choice of attire has folks in Tallahassee feeling like a flip is imminent.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Tennessee Vols \" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"952\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6cacaeeb9d60313bc5152cab3f3a5bec.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tennessee Vols <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Simply wearing Vols gear on an official visit doesn\u2019t mean Cooper is guaranteed to flip to Tennessee. But given his status as an in-state recruit, it seems fair to assume the Vols are a legitimate threat to land him if they decide to push hard for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On3\u2019s Chad Simmons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/news\/tennessee-intel-flip-buzz-building-a-june-15-decision-in-play-and-fresh-momentum-with-elite-2027-targets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reported this week;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;reported this week&quot;}\" class=\"link \">reported this week<\/a> that Tennessee has been \u201caggressively\u201d recruiting Cooper despite his commitment to Florida State, so it certainly sounds like they\u2019re pushing hard.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tennessee is recruiting Cooper to play wide receiver, which is reportedly his preferred position. I wouldn\u2019t be shocked at all if Cooper is a Vol commit by the end of the month, if not sooner.<\/p>\n<p>This article was originally published on A to Z Sports. Read the full story here: <a href=\"https:\/\/atozsports.com\/nashville\/volunteers\/florida-state-commit-outfit-official-visit-vols-tennessee-major-panic-tallahassee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Florida State commit&#039;s outfit during official visit to Tennessee is causing some major panic in Tallahassee;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Florida State commit&#039;&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Florida State commit&#8217;s outfit during official visit to Tennessee is causing some major panic in Tallahassee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 A to Z Sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tennessee Volunteers are hoping to flip a 2027 recruit who is from the Chattanooga area from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[99503,1320,3731,47107,128099,232,234,233,2533],"class_list":["post-306489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-dayon-cooper","tag-florida-state","tag-florida-state-seminoles","tag-official-visit","tag-state-of-tennessee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-tennessee-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}