The Official Countdown To Tennessee Football 2024 (55 Days)

[NO SIR EEE]

63 Days!

Today we honor #63 Cooper Mays who will return for an extra year in 2024.

CAREER HONORS​

2024 Preseason All-American Second Team (Phil Steele)

2024 Preseason All-SEC Second Team (Phil Steele)

2023 Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll

2023 All-SEC Second Team (AP)

2022 Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll

SEC Offensive Lineman of the Week (vs. Missouri, 11/12/22)

2021 Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll

 

[Tin Man]

Maybe, there are better centers who played college ball last year, but they didn’t wear Tennessee Orange. Mays matters.

 

[NO SIR EEE]

62 Days!

Rick Wilkinson returned an interception 62 yards in The Vols 29-3 win at Memphis State in 1982.

 

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61 Days!

Dylan Sampson did something in the 2023 Season Opener against Virginia that had not been done by a Tennessee running back in 6 years. Sampson scored a staggering four total touchdowns, three rushing and one receiving, along with 61 yards from scrimmage in the Vols’ 49-13 win over Virginia. The last time a Tennessee running back reached the end zone four times in a single game was September 4, 2017, when John Kelly Jr. scored four times in Tennessee’s season-opener against Georgia Tech.

 

[NO SIR EEE]

60 Days!

Faud Reveiz has the longest field goal in school history, of 60 yards in 1982 against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, and he has the most made field goals in a season with 27 in 1982.

 

[TennesseeTarheel]

Oh boy!

 

[WillisWG]

The Volunteers officially begin preseason camp on July 31, one month prior to taking on Chattanooga in their season opener on Aug. 31 at 12:45 p.m. ET in Neyland Stadium.

 

[NO SIR EEE]

59 Days!

James Wilhoit (2003-2006) is 3rd all time in Tennessee Football history for field goals made in a career with 59.

 

[Frank Duncan]

229 Days!

Johnnie Jones rushed for 1290 yards and 10 touchdowns on 229 carries for the 1984 Vols.

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[Frank Duncan]

61 Days!

Dylan Sampson did something in the 2023 Season Opener against Virginia that had not been done by a Tennessee running back in 6 years. Sampson scored a staggering four total touchdowns, three rushing and one receiving, along with 61 yards from scrimmage in the Vols’ 49-13 win over Virginia. The last time a Tennessee running back reached the end zone four times in a single game was September 4, 2017, when John Kelly Jr. scored four times in Tennessee’s season-opener against Georgia Tech.

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Inspired by this guy..

 

[NO SIR EEE]

58 Days!

Bru McCoy finished the Pitt game with four catches for 58 yards in his RS Junior Year (2022).

 

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57 Days!

Cory Gaines had a 57 yard pick 6 in a 30-24 win at UCLA in 1997.

 

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56 Days!

Alontae Taylor had a 56 yard pick six at Kentucky in 2021.

 

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66 Days!

It was one of the more iconic scores in Neyland Stadium and it happened in 1992 as Tennessee defeated Florida 31-14. Mose Phillips caught a screen pass from Heath Shuler and went 66 yards for the touchdown. After high-stepping through the standing water at the goal line, Phillips circled the back of the end zone, stepped back onto the checkerboards in front of the goal post and stopped to look at his wrist. Phillips made sure everyone knew it was about time. "Touchdown Big Orange," John Ward shouted on the Vol Network radio broadcast, "in the downpour!"

Ignore the 21 Days until, only place I could find the scoring clip.

I think I went to the home opener in 1992 but that FL game is my first memory of TN football.

I was a young 21 yr old transfer student dressed in Khakis, shirt, tie, and a blue blazer along with other fraternity pledge brothers. I still remember Mose taking it the house in the monsoon.

I was in awe and couldn’t believe the environment. And ever since I’ve been an avid Vol fan.

 

[NO SIR EEE]

55 Days!

Tennessee's 10-2 season in 1996 included a 55-14 drubbing of Arkansas.

 

[volmanjr]

56 Days!

Alontae Taylor had a 56 yard pick six at Kentucky in 2021.

Hail to the Cookie Monster!