1992 Tennessee Volunteers football team

1992 Tennessee Volunteers football

Hall of Fame Bowl Champions
Hall of Fame Bowl, W 38–23 vs. Boston College
Conference	Southeastern Conference Eastern Division
Ranking
Coaches	#12
AP	#12
1992 record	9–3 (5–3 SEC)
Head coach	Johnny Majors and Phillip Fulmer
Offensive coordinator	Phillip Fulmer
Defensive coordinator	Larry Marmie
Captain	Todd Kelly
Captain	J. J. McCleskey
Home stadium	Neyland Stadium (Capacity: 91,902)^[1]

1992 SEC football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Eastern Division
#10 Florida xy	6	–	2	–	0	9	–	4	–	0
#8 Georgia x	6	–	2	–	0	10	–	2	–	0
#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 Alabama x$	8	–	0	–	0	13	–	0	–	0
#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 represented the University of Tennessee in the 1992 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 Stadium • Knoxville, TN		W 38–3	95,110
September 12	3:30 PM	at #14 Georgia	#20	Sanford Stadium • Athens, GA (Rivalry)	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 Stadium • Baton 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 Stadium • Columbia, SC	JPS	L 23–24	71,529
November 14	1:30 PM	at Memphis State*	#23	Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium • Memphis, 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 Stadium • Nashville, TN (Rivalry)	PPV	W 29–25	41,000
January 1	11:05 AM	vs. #16 Boston College*	#17	Tampa Stadium • Tampa, 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.

Reference:^[5]

Team players drafted into 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

Reference:^[6]

References

↑ "Neyland Stadium". utsports.com. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
↑ "Slowed by Surgery, Majors Back with Vols". The Tuscaloosa News (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Google News Archive). Associated Press. September 22, 1992. p. 4B. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
↑ "Fulmer New Vols Coach". The Tuscaloosa News (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Google News Archive). November 29, 1992. p. 1B. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
↑ "Majors Decides to Not Coach Tennessee in its Bowl Game". The Daily News (Middlesboro, Kentucky: Google News Archive). December 5, 1992. p. 8. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
↑ "Tennessee Football History and Records: Tennessee Results 1990–99". University of Tennessee Athletics. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
↑ "1993 NFL Draft". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved March 19, 2012.

Tennessee Volunteers football

Venues	Neyland Stadium (1921–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Alabama: Third Saturday in October Auburn Florida Georgia Georgia Tech Kentucky Vanderbilt

Culture & lore	Smokey "Rocky Top" Pride of the Southland Band

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