1992 Tennessee Volunteers football
Hall of Fame Bowl champion
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
DivisionEastern Division
Ranking
CoachesNo. 12
APNo. 12
Record9–3 (5–3 SEC)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorPhillip Fulmer (4th season)
Defensive coordinatorLarry Marmie (1st season)
Captains
Home stadiumNeyland Stadium
1992 Southeastern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Eastern Division
No. 10 Florida xy 6 –2 –09 –4 –0
No. 8 Georgia x 6 –2 –010 –2 –0
No. 12 Tennessee 5 –3 –09 –3 –0
South Carolina 3 –5 –05 –6 –0
Vanderbilt 2 –6 –04 –7 –0
Kentucky 2 –6 –04 –7 –0
Western Division
No. 1 Alabama x$ 8 –0 –013 –0 –0
No. 16 Ole Miss 5 –3 –09 –3 –0
No. 23 Mississippi State 4 –4 –07 –5 –0
Arkansas 3 –4 –13 –7 –1
Auburn 2 –5 –15 –5 –1
LSU 1 –7 –02 –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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] 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

DateTimeOpponentRankSiteTVResultAttendanceSource
September 51:00 p.m.Southwestern Louisiana*No. 22
W 38–395,110[4]
September 123:30 p.m.at No. 14 GeorgiaNo. 20
ESPNW 34–3185,434[5]
September 193:30 p.m.No. 4 FloridaNo. 14
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, TN (rivalry)
ABCW 31–1497,137[6]
September 264:00 p.m.Cincinnati*daggerNo. 8
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, TN
PPVW 40–096,597[7]
October 37:30 p.m.at LSUNo. 7
ESPNW 20–068,318[8]
October 1012:30 p.m.ArkansasNo. 4
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, TN
JPSL 24–2595,202[9]
October 173:30 p.m.No. 4 AlabamaNo. 13
ABCL 10–1797,388[10]
October 3112:30 p.m.at South CarolinaNo. 16
JPSL 23–2471,529[11]
November 141:30 p.m.at Memphis State*No. 23
PPVW 26–2165,234[12]
November 211:00 p.m.KentuckyNo. 20
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, TN (rivalry)
W 34–1394,110[13]
November 282:30 p.m.at VanderbiltNo. 18
PPVW 29–2541,000[14]
January 111:05 a.m.vs. No. 16 Boston College*No. 17
ESPNW 38–2352,056[15]
  • *Non-conference game
  • daggerHomecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Eastern time

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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 Injured
  • Redshirt Redshirt

Team players drafted into the NFL

PlayerPositionRoundPickNFL club
Todd KellyDefensive end127San Francisco 49ers
Dave ThomasDefensive back8203Dallas Cowboys

References

  1. ↑ "Slowed by Surgery, Majors Back with Vols". The Tuscaloosa News. Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Associated Press. September 22, 1992. p. 4B. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Fulmer New Vols Coach". The Tuscaloosa News. Tuscaloosa, Alabama. November 29, 1992. p. 1B. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Majors Decides to Not Coach Tennessee in its Bowl Game". The Daily News. Middlesboro, Kentucky. December 5, 1992. p. 8. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Tennessee tramples USL, 38–3". The Crowley Post-Signal. September 6, 1992. Retrieved November 14, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Vols shock 'Dogs, 34–31". Kingsport Times-News. September 13, 1992. Retrieved November 14, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Vols one again reduce Gators to road kill, 31–14". The Orlando Sentinel. September 20, 1992. Retrieved November 14, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Rocky UC easily topped, 40–0". The Cincinnati Enquirer. September 27, 1992. Retrieved November 14, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Vols ramble by LSU, 20–0". The Jackson Sun. October 4, 1992. Retrieved November 14, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Arkansas stuns No. 4 Tennessee". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. October 11, 1992. Retrieved November 14, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Bama still owns Vols". Johnson City Press. October 16, 1992. Retrieved November 14, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "Stumbling Vols fall short". The Commercial Appeal. November 1, 1992. Retrieved November 14, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "Beating Tigers never grows old". The Knoxville News-Sentinel. November 15, 1992. Retrieved November 14, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ "UT's Majors rides out a winner". The Knoxville News-Sentinel. November 22, 1992. Retrieved November 12, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "Vols outlast Vanderbilt in Majors finale 29–25". The Atlanta Journal & Constitution. November 29, 1992. Retrieved November 14, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ↑ "Fame is fleeting: BC overwhelmed". The Boston Globe. January 2, 1993. Retrieved November 14, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ↑ "1992 Tennessee Volunteers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
  17. ↑ "1993 NFL Draft". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
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