1992 Tennessee Volunteers football team

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1992 Tennessee Volunteers football
Tennessee Volunteers logo.svg
Hall of Fame Bowl champion
Conference Southeastern Conference
DivisionEastern Division
Ranking
CoachesNo. 12
APNo. 12
Record9–3 (5–3 SEC)
Head coach
Offensive coordinator Phillip Fulmer (4th season)
Defensive coordinator Larry Marmie (1st season)
Captains
Home stadium Neyland Stadium
Seasons
←  1991
1993  →
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.

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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 Georgia No. 20
 ESPN W 34–3185,434 [5]
September 193:30 p.m.No. 4 Florida No. 14
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, TN (rivalry)
 ABC W 31–1497,137 [6]
September 264:00 p.m. Cincinnati *Dagger-14-plain.pngNo. 8
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, TN
 PPV W 40–096,597 [7]
October 37:30 p.m.at LSU No. 7
ESPNW 20–068,318 [8]
October 1012:30 p.m. Arkansas No. 4
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, TN
 JPS L 24–2595,202 [9]
October 173:30 p.m.No. 4 Alabama No. 13
ABCL 10–1797,388 [10]
October 3112:30 p.m.at South Carolina No. 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. Kentucky No. 20
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, TN (rivalry)
W 34–1394,110 [13]
November 282:30 p.m.at Vanderbilt No. 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
  • Dagger-14-plain.pngHomecoming
  • 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
PlayersCoaches
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
  • Cruz Roja.svg Injured
  • Redshirt.svg Redshirt

Team players drafted into the NFL

PlayerPositionRoundPickNFL club
Todd Kelly Defensive end127 San Francisco 49ers
Dave Thomas Defensive back8203 Dallas Cowboys

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References

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