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1992 Tennessee Volunteers football team

American college football season

Field	Value
year	1992
team	Tennessee Volunteers
sport	football
image	Tennessee Volunteers logo.svg
image_size	125
conference	Southeastern Conference
division	Eastern Division
short_conf	SEC
CoachRank	12
APRank	12
record	9–3
conf_record	5–3
head_coach	Johnny Majors
hc_games	games 4–11
hc_year	16th
head_coach2	Phillip Fulmer
hc_games2	games 1–3, bowl game
off_coach	Phillip Fulmer
oc_year	4th
off_scheme	Pro-style
def_coach	Larry Marmie
dc_year	1st
def_scheme	[4–3](4-3-defense)
captain	Todd Kelly
captain2	J. J. McCleskey
stadium	Neyland Stadium
champion	Hall of Fame Bowl champion
bowl	[Hall of Fame Bowl](1993-hall-of-fame-bowl)
bowl_result	W 38–23 vs. [Boston College](1992-boston-college-eagles-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.

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. 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. 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. 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

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Roster

Johnny Majors (games 4–11)
Phillip Fulmer (games 1–3, bowl)
Phillip Fulmer – Offensive coordinator/offensive line
David Cutcliffe – Quarterbacks/passing game coordinator
Charlie Coe – Running backs
Randy Sanders – Wide receivers
Mark Bradley – Tight ends
Larry Marmie – Defensive coordinator
Ray Hamilton – Defensive line
Bob Maddox – Defensive line
John Chavis – Linebackers
Tim Keane – Defensive backs

Team players drafted into the NFL

Reference:

References

(September 22, 1992). "Slowed by Surgery, Majors Back with Vols". [[The Tuscaloosa News]].
(November 29, 1992). "Fulmer New Vols Coach". [[The Tuscaloosa News]].
(December 5, 1992). "Majors Decides to Not Coach Tennessee in its Bowl Game". The Daily News.
(September 6, 1992). "Tennessee tramples USL, 38–3". The Crowley Post-Signal.
(September 13, 1992). "Vols shock 'Dogs, 34–31". Kingsport Times-News.
(September 20, 1992). "Vols one again reduce Gators to road kill, 31–14". The Orlando Sentinel.
(September 27, 1992). "Rocky UC easily topped, 40–0". The Cincinnati Enquirer.
(October 4, 1992). "Vols ramble by LSU, 20–0". The Jackson Sun.
(October 11, 1992). "Arkansas stuns No. 4 Tennessee". Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
(October 16, 1992). "Bama still owns Vols". Johnson City Press.
(November 1, 1992). "Stumbling Vols fall short". The Commercial Appeal.
(November 15, 1992). "Beating Tigers never grows old". The Knoxville News-Sentinel.
(November 22, 1992). "UT's Majors rides out a winner". The Knoxville News-Sentinel.
(November 29, 1992). "Vols outlast Vanderbilt in Majors finale 29–25". The Atlanta Journal & Constitution.
(January 2, 1993). "Fame is fleeting: BC overwhelmed". The Boston Globe.
"1992 Tennessee Volunteers Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC.
Megargee, Steve. (2017-08-28). "Many players on No. 25 Tennessee continue family tradition".
"1993 NFL Draft". Pro-Football-Reference.com.

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