1992 Tennessee Volunteers football team

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1992 Tennessee Volunteers football
Tennessee Volunteers logo.svg
Hall of Fame Bowl champion
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
DivisionEastern Division
Ranking
CoachesNo. 12
APNo. 12
1992 record9–3 (5–3 SEC)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorPhillip Fulmer
Defensive coordinatorLarry Marmie
Captains
Home stadiumNeyland Stadium
(Capacity: 91,902)[1]
Seasons
← 1991
1993 →
1992 Southeastern Conference football standings
  • v
  • t
 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Eastern Division
No. 10 Florida xy 6 – 2 – 0 9 – 4 – 0
No. 8 Georgia x 6 – 2 – 0 10 – 2 – 0
No. 12 Tennessee 5 – 3 – 0 9 – 3 – 0
South Carolina 3 – 5 – 0 5 – 6 – 0
Vanderbilt 2 – 6 – 0 4 – 7 – 0
Kentucky 2 – 6 – 0 4 – 7 – 0
Western Division
No. 1 Alabama x$ 8 – 0 – 0 13 – 0 – 0
No. 16 Ole Miss 5 – 3 – 0 9 – 3 – 0
No. 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 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 38–23 victory over Boston College 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[]

DateTimeOpponentRankSiteTVResultAttendance
September 51:00 p.m.SW Louisiana*No. 22
W 38–395,110
September 123:30 p.m.at No. 14 GeorgiaNo. 20
ABCW 34–3185,434
September 193:30 p.m.No. 4 FloridaNo. 14
ABCW 31–1497,137
September 264:00 p.m.Cincinnati*daggerNo. 8
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, Tennessee
PPVW 40–096,597
October 37:30 p.m.at LSUNo. 7
ESPNW 20–068,318
October 1012:30 p.m.ArkansasNo. 4
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, Tennessee
JPSL 24–2595,202
October 173:30 p.m.No. 4 AlabamaNo. 13
ABCL 10–1797,388
October 3112:30 p.m.at South CarolinaNo. 16
JPSL 23–2471,529
November 141:30 p.m.at Memphis State*No. 23
PPVW 26–2165,234
November 211:00 p.m.KentuckyNo. 20
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, Tennessee (Battle for the Barrel)
W 34–1394,110
November 282:30 p.m.at VanderbiltNo. 18
  • Vanderbilt Stadium
  • Nashville, Tennessee (rivalry)
PPVW 29–2541,000
January 111:05 a.m.vs. No. 16 Boston College*No. 17
ESPNW 38–2352,056
  • *Non-conference game
  • daggerHomecoming
  • Rankings from Coaches' Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Eastern time

Roster[]

1992 Tennessee Volunteers football team roster
Players Coaches
Offense
Pos. # Name Class
WR 12 Cory Fleming Jr
RB 33 James Stewart So
QB 21 Heath Shuler So
Defense
Pos. # Name Class
DE 58 Todd Kelly Sr
Special teams
Pos. # Name Class
Head coach
Coordinators/assistant coaches
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • (S) Suspended
  • (I) Ineligible
  • Injured Injured
  • Redshirt Redshirt

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

References[]

  1. ^ "Neyland Stadium". utsports.com. Archived from the original on November 19, 2012. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
  2. ^ "Slowed by Surgery, Majors Back with Vols". The Tuscaloosa News. Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Associated Press. September 22, 1992. p. 4B. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  3. ^ "Fulmer New Vols Coach". The Tuscaloosa News. Tuscaloosa, Alabama. November 29, 1992. p. 1B. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  4. ^ "Majors Decides to Not Coach Tennessee in its Bowl Game". The Daily News. Middlesboro, Kentucky. December 5, 1992. p. 8. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  5. ^ "Tennessee Football History and Records: Tennessee Results 1990–99". University of Tennessee Athletics. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
  6. ^ "1993 NFL Draft". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
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