Tennessee Volunteers Football – Wiki, Championships, Records, and More

Tennessee Volunteers Football – Wiki, Championships, Records, and More

Tennessee Volunteers Football: The University of Tennessee is represented by its football team, the Tennessee Volunteers. They have been to bowl games 52 times and won 28 of them. They have won four Sugar Bowls, three Cotton Bowls, an Orange Bowl, a Peach Bowl, and a Fiesta Bowl, among others. In their history, they have won 16 conference titles and six national titles, including two from the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll in 1951 and 1998.

The Vols play at Neyland Stadium on the campus of the university in Knoxville. Tennessee has won 464 games there, which is more than any other college football team has won at its current home field. Also, with 102,455 seats, Neyland is the fifth largest stadium in the country and the second largest in the Southeastern Conference.

Championships

National Championships

Year	Coach	Selectors	Record	Bowl	Opponent	Result	Final AP	Final Coaches
1938	Robert Neyland	Berryman, Billingsley, Boand, Dunkel, College Football Researchers Association, Houlgate, Litkenhous, Poling, Sagarin, Sagarin (ELO-Chess)	11–0	Orange	Oklahoma	W 17–0	No. 2	–
1940	Dunkel, Williamson	10–1	Sugar	Boston College	L 13–19	No. 4	–
1950	Billingsley, DeVold, Dunkel, Football Research, National Championship Foundation, Sagarin (ELO-Chess)	11–1	Cotton	Texas	W 20–14	No. 4	No. 3
1951	Associated Press, Litkenhous, United Press International (coaches), Williamson	10–1	Sugar	Maryland	L 13–28	No. 1	No. 1
1967	Doug Dickey	Litkenhous	9–2	Orange	Oklahoma	L 24–26	No. 2	No. 2
1998	Phillip Fulmer	Associated Press, BCS, FW, National Football Foundation, USA Today	13–0	Fiesta (BCS National Championship Game)	Florida State	W 23–16	No. 1	No. 1

Conference Championships

Year	Conference	Coach	Overall record	Conference record
1914	SIAA	Zora G. Clevenger	9–0	5–0
1927	SoCon	Robert Neyland	8–0–1	5–0–1
1932	9–0–1	7–0–1
1938	SEC	11–0	7–0
1939	10–1	6–0
1940	10–1	6–0
1946	9–2	5–0
1951	10–1	5–0
1956	Bowden Wyatt	10–1	6–0
1967	Doug Dickey	9–2	6–0
1969	9–2	5-1
1985	Johnny Majors	9–1–2	5–1
1989	11–1	6–1
1990	9–2–2	5–1–1
1997	Phillip Fulmer	11–2	7–1
1998	13–0	8–0

Division Championships

Year	Division Championship	Opponent	Result
1997	SEC East	Auburn	W 30–29
1998	Mississippi State	W 24–14
2001	LSU	L 20–31
2003	N/A lost in a tiebreaker to Georgia
2004	Auburn	L 28–38
2007	LSU	L 14–21

Head coaches

Since its first game in 1891, Tennessee has had 24 head coaches. Robert Neyland has coached for the most years and won the most games. He has 173 wins in 21 years (spread out over three stints). John Barnhill has won .846 percent of the games he has coached, which is more than anyone else who has coached more than one game. With a .306 winning percentage, James DePree has the worst record of all coaches who have run more than one game. Neyland, Wyatt, Dickey, Majors, and Fulmer have all been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta. They are five of the 23 head coaches who have led the Volunteers.

Bowl games

Season	Coach	Bowl	Opponent	Result
2004	Phillip Fulmer	Cotton Bowl Classic	Texas A&M	W 38–7
2006	Phillip Fulmer	Outback Bowl	Penn State	L 10–20
2007	Phillip Fulmer	Outback Bowl	Wisconsin	W 21–17
2009	Lane Kiffin	Chick-fil-A Bowl	Virginia Tech	L 14–37
2010	Derek Dooley	Music City Bowl	North Carolina	L 27–30 2OT
2014	Butch Jones	TaxSlayer Bowl	Iowa	W 45–28
2015	Butch Jones	Outback Bowl	Northwestern	W 45–6
2016	Butch Jones	Music City Bowl	Nebraska	W 38–24
2019	Jeremy Pruitt	Gator Bowl	Indiana	W 23–22
2021	Josh Heupel	Music City Bowl	Purdue	L 45–48

Rivalries

The Alabama Crimson Tide, the Florida Gators, and the Vanderbilt Commodores are the Vols’ three main rivals. Kentucky Wildcats and Tennessee have also been rivals for a long time and for a long time. Since 1992, when the SEC made the Eastern Division, the Tennessee Vols and the Georgia Bulldogs have become more and more of a rivalry. None of their games have trophies, but from 1925 to 1999, Kentucky and Tennessee played for a trophy called the Beer Barrel. From 1985 to 2010, Tennessee won 26 straight games against Kentucky. On November 26, 2011, Kentucky beat Tennessee 10–7 in Lexington, putting an end to the streak. Before Georgia Tech left the SEC, the Volunteers’ biggest rivals were the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, the Auburn Tigers, and Ole Miss. Realignment forced them to drop Auburn and Ole Miss from their schedule.

All-time record

As of 2017, Tennessee is ranked thirteenth by the percentage of wins and ninth by the number of wins. The best score ever is 830–375–53, which is.682. The Vols have a record of 464–127–17 at Neyland Stadium (.777).

The University Athletic Association keeps the official records for the UT football season. They have won 13 conference titles and six national titles over the course of their history. Their last national title came in 1998 when they played college football.

The Vols play at Neyland Stadium, where Tennessee has won 464 games, the most of any college football team in the country at its current home field. Also, with 102,455 seats, Neyland is the fifth largest stadium in the United States.

Retired Players

No.	Player	Position	Tenure	Retired
91	Doug Atkins	DE	–1952	2005
16	Peyton Manning	QB	1995–1997	2005
92	Reggie White	DE	1980–1983	2005
62	Clyde Fuson	FB	1942	2006
49	Rudy Klarer	G	1941–1942	2006
32	Billy Nowling	FB	1940–1942	2006
61	Willis Tucker	FB	1939–1940	2006
45	Johnny Majors	HB	1954–1956	2012