Rivals
Though not always played on this date, Tennessee's football rivalry with Alabama is nicknamed this.
What is the Third Saturday in October?
This professional sports team runs the Scripps Spelling Bee for the state, as there are no Scripps newspapers in Tennessee.
What is the Tennessee Titans?
One of 2 universities that joined the SEC in 2024, this school is represented well in UTK's sport management program. Professors Graham and Trendafilova, as well as recent doctoral student Lauren Beasley are all alumni.
What is the University of Texas?
On July 1, 2015, Tennessee officially switched away from Adidas to this competing apparel partner.
What is Nike?
Established in conjunction with ESPN in 2014, this network has approximately 70 million subscribers.
What is the SEC Network?
Peyton Manning was 0-4 against this SEC East rival.
What is the University of Florida?
This famous Vol stepped in as a substitute twice--1st as a football coach; then as athletic director.
Who is Phillip Fulmer?
One of 2 universities that joined the SEC 2012, this school's Corps of Cadets is the largest uniformed student body outside of the U.S. service academies.
What is Texas A&M University?
This Tennessee Volunteer corporate sponsor started at a soda fountain in downtown Atlanta, Georgia in 1886.
What is Coca-Cola?
According to the NCAA, this is the 4th largest (capacity) college basketball arena.
What is Thompson-Boling Arena?
In 2016, Josh Dobbs completed a 43-yard game-winning Hail Mary to this player to beat rival Georgia.
Who is Jauan Jennings?
Jerry Colquitt was set to be Tennessee football’s starter but suffered a career-ending injury in the season-opener. Future baseball star Todd Helton came in as a backup, but 3 games later, he suffered a season-ending injury. With 2 starters getting hurt, this true freshman made his 1st start.
Who is Peyton Manning?
One of 2 universities that joined the SEC in 2024, this school was the first university to win both the NCAA men’s and women’s gymnastics national championship titles in the same year (2016).
What is the University of Oklahoma?
At the Official Bank of the Vols, UT debit cards come emblazoned with images of Smokey, Power Ts, and the Knoxville skyline.
What is First Horizon?
Recent UTK athletics budgets show this campus population contributing $1,000,000 each year through credit hour fees.
Who are students?
The 2017 edition of this rivalry pitted two 4–7 teams, each seeking their first conference win in the finale. One commentator suggested that "statistically speaking" the game might be "the worst Southeastern Conference matchup of the last 50 years." Tennessee would go on to lose to this rival 42-24.
What is Vanderbilt University?
As the SEC does not have enough competing teams, the Lady Vols Rowing team competes for this conference.
What is the Big 12?
One of 2 universities that joined the SEC 2012, this school was founded in 1839 as the first public university west of the Mississippi River.
What is the University of Missouri?
This Tennessee Volunteer corporate sponsor supermarket chain is also the second-longest running sponsor in NASCAR.
What is Food City?
This is the exclusive producer and marketer of University of Tennessee sports programming, which coordinates and distributes football, men's basketball, women's basketball, and baseball radio broadcasts, a weekly coaches' call-in show and weekly television coaches' shows for football, men's and women's basketball.
What is the Vol Network?
In 1953 the trophy given to the winning team, a beer barrel, was stolen by Tennessee students even though this rival had won that year’s game. In an effort to retaliate and earn its barrel back, this rival's students dog-napped Smokey, Tennessee’s longtime mascot. Eventually, the two sides traded back what was rightfully theirs.
What is the University of Kentucky?
John Barnhill stepped in as coach during this head coach's absence due to WWII.
Who is General Robert Neyland?
J. William Fulbright, the creator of the Fulbright Scholarship Program, the largest international exchange of scholars in the world, is an alumnus of this university that joined the SEC in 1990.
What is the University of Arkansas?
This coach's career at the University of Tennessee started as a GTA for the Physical Education & Activity Program.
Who is Pat Summitt?
The stated capacity of Neyland Stadium.
What is 102,455 (pre-renovation)
101,915 (currently)?