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1992 Tennessee Volunteers football
Hall of Fame Bowl Champions
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
DivisionEastern Division
Ranking
CoachesNo. 12
APNo. 12
1992 record9–3 (5–3 SEC)
Head coachJohnny Majors and Phillip Fulmer
Offensive coordinatorPhillip Fulmer
Defensive coordinatorLarry Marmie
Base defense
(Capacity: 91,902)[1]
Home stadiumNeyland Stadium
Seasons
← 1991
1993 →
1992 SEC football standings
v · d · e Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Eastern Division
#10/11 Florida xy 6 2 0     9 4 0
#8/8 Georgia x 6 2 0     10 2 0
#12/12 Tennessee 5 3 0     9 3 0
South Carolina 3 5 0     5 6 0
Kentucky 2 6 0     4 7 0
Vanderbilt 2 6 0     4 7 0
Western Division
#1/1 Alabama xy 8 0 0     13 0 0
#16/16 Ole Miss 5 3 0     9 3 0
#23 Mississippi State 4 4 0     7 5 0
Arkansas 3 4 1     3 7 1
Auburn 2 5 1     5 5 1
LSU 1 7 0     2 9 0
Championship:Alabama 28, Florida 21
† – Conference champion
x – Division champion/co-champions
y – Championship game participant
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1992 Tennessee Volunteers football team (variously "Tennessee", "UT" or the "Vols") represented the University of Tennessee in the 1992 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Volunteers were a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), in the Eastern Division and played their home games at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee. They finished the season with a record of nine wins and three (9–3 overall, 5–3 in the SEC) and with a victory over Boston College in the Hall of Fame Bowl. The Volunteers offense scored 347 points while the defense allowed 196 points.

Johnny Majors was to enter his sixteenth season as the Volunteers' head coach for the 1992 season. However in August, Majors underwent emergency quintuple bypass surgery, and as a result Phillip Fulmer was named interim head coach.[2] After Fulmer led the Vols to a 3–0 start, Majors returned and led Tennessee to a 5–3 finish. By the end of the season, the university bought-out the remainder of Majors' contract, and on November 29, Fulmer was named as the Volunteers' new head coach effective after the Hall of Fame Bowl.[3] However, on December 4, Majors announced he would not coach the team in the bowl game, and as a result Fulmer went on to coach the Volunteers to victory in his first game as Tennessee's full time head coach.[4] The school officially credits Majors with a record of five wins and three losses (5–3) and Fulmer with four wins and zero losses (4–0) for the 1992 season.

Schedule[]

Date Time Opponent# Rank# Site TV Result Attendance
September 5* 1:00 PM SW Louisiana #22 Neyland StadiumKnoxville, TN W 38–3   95,110
September 12 3:30 PM at #14 Georgia #20 Sanford StadiumAthens, GA ABC W 34–31   85,434
September 19 3:30 PM #4 Florida #14 Neyland Stadium • Knoxville, TN (Third Saturday in September) ABC W 31–14   97,137
September 26*† 4:00 PM Cincinnati #8 Neyland Stadium • Knoxville, TN PPV W 40–0   96,597
October 3 7:30 PM at LSU #7 Tiger StadiumBaton Rouge, LA ESPN W 20–0   68,318
October 10 12:30 PM Arkansas #4 Neyland Stadium • Knoxville, TN JPS L 24–25   95,202
October 17 3:30 PM #4 Alabama #13 Neyland Stadium • Knoxville, TN (Third Saturday in October) ABC L 10–17   97,388
October 31 12:30 PM at South Carolina #16 Williams-Brice StadiumColumbia, SC JPS L 23–24   71,529
November 14* 1:30 PM at Memphis State #23 Liberty Bowl Memorial StadiumMemphis, TN PPV W 26–21   65,234
November 21 1:00 PM Kentucky #20 Neyland Stadium • Knoxville, TN (Battle for the Barrel) W 34–13   94,110
November 28 2:30 PM at Vanderbilt #18 Vanderbilt StadiumNashville, TN PPV W 29–25   41,000
January 1* 11:05 AM vs. #16 Boston College #17 Tampa StadiumTampa, FL (Hall of Fame Bowl) ESPN W 38–23   52,056
*Non-Conference Game. Homecoming. #Rankings from Coaches Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Team players drafted into in the NFL[]

Player Position Round Pick NFL club
Todd Kelly Defensive End 1 27 San Francisco 49ers
Dave Thomas Defensive Back 8 203 Dallas Cowboys

References[]

  1. "Neyland Stadium". utsports.com. http://www.utsports.com/facilities/neyland_stadium.html. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
  2. "Slowed by Surgery, Majors Back with Vols". The Tuscaloosa News. Associated Press (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Google News Archive): p. 4B. September 22, 1992. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=w4IfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wKUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6869%2C5503848. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  3. "Fulmer New Vols Coach". The Tuscaloosa News (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Google News Archive): p. 1B. November 29, 1992. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DDkdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5KUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1979%2C10431618. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  4. "Majors Decides to Not Coach Tennessee in its Bowl Game". The Daily News (Middlesboro, Kentucky: Google News Archive): p. 8. December 5, 1992. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vCRCAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zqoMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5255%2C4014649. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  5. "Tennessee Football History and Records: Tennessee Results 1990–99". University of Tennessee Athletics. http://www.utsports.com/sports/m-footbl/fball-history/1990-99.html. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
  6. "1993 NFL Draft". Pro-Football-Reference.com. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1993/draft.htm?redir. Retrieved March 19, 2012.

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