1993 Tennessee Volunteers football
SEC Eastern Division co-champion
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
DivisionEastern Division
Ranking
CoachesNo. 11
APNo. 12
Record10–2 (7–1 SEC)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorDavid Cutcliffe (1st season)
Defensive coordinatorLarry Marmie (2nd season)
Captains
Home stadiumNeyland Stadium
1993 Southeastern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Eastern Division
No. 5 Florida x$ 7 –1 –011 –2 –0
No. 12 Tennessee* x 6 –1 –19 –2 –1
Kentucky 4 –4 –06 –6 –0
Georgia 2 –6 –05 –6 –0
South Carolina* 2 –6 –04 –7 –0
Vanderbilt* 1 –7 –04 –7 –0
Western Division
No. 4 Auburn† 8 –0 –011 –0 –0
No. 14 Alabama* x 5 –2 –19 –3 –1
Arkansas* 3 –4 –15 –5 –1
LSU 3 –5 –05 –6 –0
Ole Miss* 3 –5 –05 –6 –0
Mississippi State* 2 –5 –13 –6 –2
Championship: Florida 28, Alabama 13
  • $ – Conference champion
  • x – Division champion/co-champions
  • † – Ineligible for the postseason due to NCAA probation.
    * – Alabama later forfeited all regular-season wins and one tie due to NCAA violations, giving an official record of 1–12 overall and 0–8 SEC. The forfeit of the tie retroactively gave Tennessee a share of the East title.
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1993 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1993 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Volunteers offense scored 484 points while the defense allowed 175 points. Phillip Fulmer was the head coach and led the club to an appearance in the Florida Citrus Bowl.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentRankSiteTVResultAttendanceSource
September 44:00 p.m.Louisiana Tech*No. 10
PPVW 50–095,106[1]
September 117:30 p.m.No. 22 GeorgiaNo. 8
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, TN (rivalry)
ESPNW 38–696,228[2]
September 183:30 p.m.at No. 9 FloridaNo. 5
ABCL 34–4185,247[3]
September 2512:30 p.m.LSUNo. 11
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, TN
JPSW 42–2095,931[4]
October 24:00 p.m.Duke*daggerNo. 11
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, TN
PPVW 52–1996,173[5]
October 912:30 p.m.at ArkansasNo. 11
JPSW 28–1454,150[6]
October 163:30 p.m.at No. 2 AlabamaNo. 10
ABCW 17–17 (Alabama forfeit)83,091[7][8]
October 3012:30 p.m.South CarolinaNo. 8
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, TN (rivalry)
JPSW 55–394,791[9]
November 63:30 p.m.No. 13 Louisville*No. 7
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, TN
ABCW 45–1094,826[10]
November 207:30 p.m.at KentuckyNo. 7
ESPNW 48–057,878[11]
November 2712:30 p.m.VanderbiltNo. 6
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, TN (rivalry)
JPSW 62–1494,225[12]
January 11:00 p.m.vs. No. 13 Penn State*No. 6
ABCL 13–3172,456[13]

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Roster

1993 Tennessee Volunteers football team roster
Players Coaches
Offense
Pos.#NameClass
WR 12 Cory Fleming Sr
RB 33 James Stewart Jr
QB 21 Heath Shuler Jr
 Defense
Pos.#NameClass
DE 99 Paul Yatkowski 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
Heath ShulerQuarterback13Washington Redskins
Charlie GarnerRunning back242Philadelphia Eagles
Cory FlemingWide receiver387San Francisco 49ers
Shane BonhamDefensive tackle393Detroit Lions
Horace MorrisLinebacker5152New York Jets

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Awards and honors

The 1993 Tennessee Volunteers football team did not win they SEC East, nor did they win their respective bowl game. The proud tradition of Alabama football took a severe hit later that when the NCAA put the Crimson Tide on probation for three years, including a ban on postseason games after this season, and forced the school to forfeit eight victories and a tie from 1993.

You may be wondering. How does this effect The Tennessee Volunteers? Well it’s simple. One of the Vols games that year was a tie with Alabama, who which we know now, forfeited 10 of their victories and the tie with Tennessee. So after the subtraction of that one tie, the Tennessee Volunteers were tied with the Florida Gators for a SEC co-championship after this discovery.

There were later findings that Cornerback Antonio Langham's signing with an agent hours after Alabama clinched that sixth championship with a victory over Miami in the 1993 Sugar Bowl led to one of the infractions cited by the NCAA. Another infraction involved former defensive back Gene Jelks, who received $24,400 in improper loans from August 1989 through May 1990.

References

  1. ↑ "Vols find comfortable point". The Tennessean. September 5, 1993. Retrieved July 15, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ "Vols dominate Georgia 38–6". Bristol Herald Courier. September 12, 1993. Retrieved November 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "Gators outlast Vols". News-Press. September 19, 1993. Retrieved November 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Shuler's 3 TD passes spark Vols". The Charlotte Observer. September 26, 1993. Retrieved November 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Duke didn't volunteer for this". The News and Observer. October 3, 1993. Retrieved November 14, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Shuler boosts Vols past Hogs". The Commercial Appeal. October 10, 1993. Retrieved November 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "It's hard '2' believe". The Tennessean. October 17, 1993. Retrieved November 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "NCAA busts Bama". The Anniston Star. August 3, 1995. Retrieved November 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Fast starting Vols romp USC". The Daily News-Journal. October 31, 1993. Retrieved November 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Tennessee waltzes on Cardinals' toes, 45–10". The Courier-Journal. November 7, 1993. Retrieved November 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "Tennessee smashes the Wildcats". Messenger-Inquirer. November 21, 1993. Retrieved November 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "Beast to the East". The Tennessean. November 28, 1993. Retrieved November 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ "Efficient Penn State buries sloppy Tennessee, 31–13". The Pensacola News-Journal. January 2, 1994. Retrieved November 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "1993 Tennessee Volunteers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 16, 2023.
  15. ↑ "1994 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Archived from the original on December 22, 2007. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
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