Tom Mattingly

Tennessee quarterback Jeff Francis tosses a pass to fullback William Howard against Mississippi State in 1987, a 38-10 Vols' win in Starkville.

When Tennessee defeated Florida 34-32 on Dec. 1, 2001, in Gainesville, there was a tumultuous celebration, albeit hastily arranged, at Tom Black Track just after the team charter touched down at McGhee-Tyson Airport.

With Nov. 1 showing up on the calendar today, let's think about one of the best-known famous phrases in all of college football, courtesy of John Majors.

Over the years, the results of the Tennessee-Alabama game have not been in the rear view mirror very long until a new concern would crop up among skittish Vol fans.

There is a cliche that talks about something being "as boring as watching grass grow." That old line is not necessarily true.

Check the calendar. Pull out the game tickets and check them, too.

It just took a proper introduction, maybe even a push from the SEC, to get Tennessee and Georgia back together on the football field.

As is usually the case, the statistics on Ray Nettles, the former Vol linebacker (1969-71) who died Sept. 29 in Jacksonville, Fla., don’t tell the whole story.

No Vol fan woke up in a good humor 51 years ago today - Sept. 28, 1958. That day will long live in infamy in the history of Tennessee football. The Vols are likely to be in the record books ...

The 1989 Tennessee football season, that ended up 11-1 and included a 31-27 win over Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl, was quite a treat for Vol fans, given the Vols had compiled a 5-6 record a year before.

The day was Oct. 22, 1977, in the year John Majors came marching home to Knoxville. "Follow me to Tennessee" was the byword of the program. Florida was the seventh game of the season in the days the Vols and ...

Sometimes sportswriters, even in the 1920s, come up with an idea that hits home years later. The year was 1926. It was a Monday, Labor Day, Sept. 6. The baseball pennant races were in full swing.

Football fans, particularly those in the South, seem to make critical, life-changing decisions about team allegiances in their most tender years and live with the impact of those decisions throughout the rest of their lives. Fans of college sports rarely ...

It's been a long time since spring practice, an even longer time since the Kentucky game. For University of Tennessee football fans, the wait is almost over. Find the binoculars, make sure you know where the tickets are, and get ...

Nearly 42 years after he called his last University of Tennessee football game - Tennessee 41, Vanderbilt 14, Dec. 2, 1967 - George Mooney still remembers the good times.