Tennessee Volunteers football

Tennessee Volunteers football
2024 Tennessee Volunteers football team
First season1891; 133 years ago[a]
Athletic directorDanny White
Head coachJosh Heupel
4th season, 35–14 (.714)
StadiumNeyland Stadium
(capacity: 101,915)
FieldShields-Watkins Field
Year built1921
Field surfaceTifway 419 Bermuda Hybrid
LocationKnoxville, Tennessee
NCAA divisionDivision I FBS
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
Past conferencesSIAA (1896–1920)
SoCon (1921–1932)
All-time record870–415–53 (.670)
Bowl record30–25 (.545)
Claimed national titles6 (1938, 1940, 1950, 1951, 1967, 1998)
Unclaimed national titles6 (1914, 1931, 1939, 1956, 1985, 1989)
National finalist2 (1997, 1998)
Conference titles16 (13 SEC, 2 SoCon, 1 SIAA)
Division titles6 (1997, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007)
RivalriesAlabama (rivalry)
Auburn (rivalry)
Florida (rivalry)
Georgia (rivalry)
Georgia Tech (rivalry)
Kentucky (rivalry)
South Carolina (rivalry)
Vanderbilt (rivalry)
Consensus All-Americans41[1]
Current uniform
ColorsTennessee Orange, White, and Smokey Gray
     
Fight songDown the Field (Official)
Rocky Top (Unofficial) Dixieland Delight (Unofficial)
MascotSmokey XI
Marching bandPride of the Southland Band
OutfitterNike
WebsiteUTSports.com

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.[2][3] Their all-time ranking in bowl appearances is fifth (55) and eighth in all-time bowl victories (30), most notably four Sugar Bowls, three Cotton Bowls, two Orange Bowls, a Fiesta Bowl, and a Peach Bowl. They have won 16 conference championships and claim six national titles, including two (1951, 1998) from the major wire-service: AP Poll and/or Coaches' Poll in their history.

The Vols play at Neyland Stadium on the university's campus in Knoxville, where Tennessee has won 485 games, the highest home-field total in college football history for any school in the nation at its current home venue. Additionally, its 101,915 seat capacity makes Neyland the nation's sixth largest and third largest in the Southeastern Conference.


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  1. ^ "Award Winners" (PDF). Fs.ncaa.org. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
  2. ^ "Football bowl subdivision records" (PDF). fs.ncaa.org.
  3. ^ "University of Tennessee Athletics – Football". Utsports.Com. October 27, 2008. Archived from the original on April 1, 2015. Retrieved April 17, 2015.