Despite it not quite feeling this way, Tennessee football has only had 3 losing seasons in the past 10 years (starting 2014), and they’ve been to 7 bowl games, winning 6 of them. They had four top 25 finishes.
In the ten years prior to that (starting 2004), they had 5 losing seasons, three top 25 finishes and won only two bowl games.
Slowly but surely, Tennessee football has been gaining its footing.