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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
Date Time Opponent Rank Site TV Result Attendance Source September 5 1:00 p.m. Southwestern Louisiana * No. 22 W 38–395,110 [4]
September 12 3:30 p.m. at No. 14 Georgia No. 20 ESPN W 34–3185,434 [5]
September 19 3:30 p.m. No. 4 Florida No. 14 Neyland Stadium Knoxville, TN (rivalry ) ABC W 31–1497,137 [6]
September 26 4:00 p.m. Cincinnati * No. 8 Neyland Stadium Knoxville, TN PPV W 40–096,597 [7]
October 3 7:30 p.m. at LSU No. 7 ESPN W 20–068,318 [8]
October 10 12:30 p.m. Arkansas No. 4 Neyland Stadium Knoxville, TN JPS L 24–2595,202 [9]
October 17 3:30 p.m. No. 4 Alabama No. 13 ABC L 10–1797,388 [10]
October 31 12:30 p.m. at South Carolina No. 16 JPS L 23–2471,529 [11]
November 14 1:30 p.m. at Memphis State * No. 23 PPV W 26–2165,234 [12]
November 21 1:00 p.m. Kentucky No. 20 Neyland Stadium Knoxville, TN (rivalry ) W 34–1394,110 [13]
November 28 2:30 p.m. at Vanderbilt No. 18 PPV W 29–2541,000 [14]
January 1 11:05 a.m. vs. No. 16 Boston College * No. 17 ESPN W 38–2352,056 [15]
*Non-conference game HomecomingRankings 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
Defense
Special teams
Head coach
Coordinators/assistant coaches
Legend
(C) Team captain
(S) Suspended
(I) Ineligible
Injured
Redshirt
Team players drafted into the NFL
References
^ "Slowed by Surgery, Majors Back with Vols" . The Tuscaloosa News . Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Associated Press. September 22, 1992. p. 4B. Retrieved March 18, 2012 .
^ "Fulmer New Vols Coach" . The Tuscaloosa News . Tuscaloosa, Alabama. November 29, 1992. p. 1B. Retrieved March 18, 2012 .
^ "Majors Decides to Not Coach Tennessee in its Bowl Game" . The Daily News . Middlesboro, Kentucky. December 5, 1992. p. 8. Retrieved March 18, 2012 .
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^ "1992 Tennessee Volunteers Schedule and Results" . SR/College Football . Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 14, 2023 .
^ "1993 NFL Draft" . Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved March 19, 2012 .
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