1992 Tennessee Volunteers football team

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.

1992 Tennessee Volunteers football
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]
1992 Southeastern Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW 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

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. 22W 38–395,110
September 123:30 p.m.at No. 14 GeorgiaNo. 20ABCW 34–3185,434
September 193:30 p.m.No. 4 FloridaNo. 14
ABCW 31–1497,137
September 264:00 p.m.Cincinnati*No. 8
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, Tennessee
PPVW 40–096,597
October 37:30 p.m.at LSUNo. 7ESPNW 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. 16JPSL 23–2471,529
November 141:30 p.m.at Memphis State*No. 23PPVW 26–2165,234
November 211:00 p.m.KentuckyNo. 20
W 34–1394,110
November 282:30 p.m.at VanderbiltNo. 18PPVW 29–2541,000
January 111:05 a.m.vs. No. 16 Boston College*No. 17ESPNW 38–2352,056

Roster

1992 Tennessee Volunteers football team roster
Players Coaches
Offense
Pos.#NameClass
WR 12 Cory Fleming Jr
RB 33 James Stewart So
QB 21 Heath Shuler So
Defense
Pos.#NameClass
DE 58 Todd Kelly Sr
Special teams
Pos.#NameClass
Head coach
Coordinators/assistant coaches

Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • (S) Suspended
  • (I) Ineligible
  • Injured
  • Redshirt

Team players drafted into the NFL

PlayerPositionRoundPickNFL club
Todd KellyDefensive end127San Francisco 49ers
Dave ThomasDefensive back8203Dallas 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: Google News Archive. Associated Press. September 22, 1992. p. 4B. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  3. "Fulmer New Vols Coach". The Tuscaloosa News. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Google News Archive. 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: Google News Archive. December 5, 1992. p. 8. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  5. "Tennessee Football History and Records: Tennessee Results 1990–99". University of Tennessee Athletics. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
  6. "1993 NFL Draft". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
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