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
Hall of Fame Bowl, W 38–23 vs. Boston College
Conference	Southeastern Conference
	Eastern Division
Ranking
Coaches	No. 12
AP	No. 12
1992 record	9–3 (5–3 SEC)
Head coach	Johnny Majors (16th season ,games 4-11) Phillip Fulmer (games 1-3, bowl game)
Offensive coordinator	Phillip Fulmer
Defensive coordinator	Larry Marmie
Captains	Todd Kelly J. J. McCleskey
Home stadium	Neyland Stadium (Capacity: 91,902)[1]

1992 Southeastern Conference football standings
	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

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

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 5	1:00 p.m.	SW Louisiana*	No. 22	Neyland Stadium Knoxville, Tennessee		W 38–3	95,110
September 12	3:30 p.m.	at No. 14 Georgia	No. 20	Sanford Stadium Athens, Georgia (rivalry)	ABC	W 34–31	85,434
September 19	3:30 p.m.	No. 4 Florida	No. 14	Neyland Stadium Knoxville, Tennessee (Third Saturday in September)	ABC	W 31–14	97,137
September 26	4:00 p.m.	Cincinnati*	No. 8	Neyland Stadium Knoxville, Tennessee	PPV	W 40–0	96,597
October 3	7:30 p.m.	at LSU	No. 7	Tiger Stadium Baton Rouge, Louisiana	ESPN	W 20–0	68,318
October 10	12:30 p.m.	Arkansas	No. 4	Neyland Stadium Knoxville, Tennessee	JPS	L 24–25	95,202
October 17	3:30 p.m.	No. 4 Alabama	No. 13	Neyland Stadium Knoxville, Tennessee (Third Saturday in October)	ABC	L 10–17	97,388
October 31	12:30 p.m.	at South Carolina	No. 16	Williams-Brice Stadium Columbia, South Carolina	JPS	L 23–24	71,529
November 14	1:30 p.m.	at Memphis State*	No. 23	Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium Memphis, Tennessee	PPV	W 26–21	65,234
November 21	1:00 p.m.	Kentucky	No. 20	Neyland Stadium Knoxville, Tennessee (Battle for the Barrel)		W 34–13	94,110
November 28	2:30 p.m.	at Vanderbilt	No. 18	Vanderbilt Stadium Nashville, Tennessee (rivalry)	PPV	W 29–25	41,000
January 1	11:05 a.m.	vs. No. 16 Boston College*	No. 17	Tampa Stadium Tampa, Florida (Hall of Fame Bowl)	ESPN	W 38–23	52,056
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from Coaches' Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

• Reference:[5]

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 Phillip Fulmer Coordinators/assistant coaches Legend (C) Team captain (S) Suspended (I) Ineligible Injured 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

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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.