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The Tennessee Volunteers college football team represents the University of Tennessee in the East Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The wows compete as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 27 head coaches since its formation during the 1891 season. [1]
The Tennessee Volunteers football program (variously called "Vols," "UT" and "Big Orange") represents the University of Tennessee (UT). The Vols have played football for 132 seasons, starting in 1891; their combined record of 870–415–53 (.670) ranks them fourteenth on the all-time win list for NCAA football programs .
Pages in category "Tennessee Volunteers football coaches" The following 180 pages are in this category, out of 180 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
He spent 17 seasons as Tennessee football head coach from 1992 to 2008 and led the Vols to the 1998 national championship, the program's last title. The Vols won SEC titles in 1997 and 1998.
Coach Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs Coaches # AP ° Independent (1891–1895) 1891: No coach 0–1: 1892: No coach 2–5: 1893: No coach 2–4: 1894: Unofficial team: 2–0–2: 1895: Unofficial team: 3–2–1: Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1896–1898) 1896: No coach 4–0: 0–0: N/A: 1897: No coach 4–1: 0–0 ...
However, in 1938, Neyland's Vols began one of the more impressive streaks in NCAA football history. Led by the likes of Tennessee's only three time All-American Bob Suffridge, the 1938 Tennessee Volunteers football team won the school's first National Championship and earned a trip to the Orange Bowl, the team's first major bowl, where they ...
Led Tennessee along with Beattie Feathers to 1932 Southern title. [4] Bobby Dodd: 1928–1930 Twice All-Southern. Later coached Georgia Tech to the 1952 National Championship. One of only three elected to the College Football Hall of Fame as both player and coach. [5] Roy Witt 1928 D. Vincent Tudor 1927–1929 Jimmy Elmore 1927 Billy Harkness ...
Tennessee's 11 wins were the most for the program since 2001 and tied for the second-most in school history. [52] He won SEC Coach of the Year for the 2022 season. [53] On January 24, 2023, ESPN reported that Tennessee had reached a contract extension agreement that will keep Heupel in Knoxville until 2029, with an annual salary of $9 million. [54]