Tennessee has no Rival

[volbound1700]

Can't you have more than one rival?

Auburn and Georgia are definitely rivals. Florida and Georgia are rivals as well. Ditto for Alabama and Tennessee. When both teams are good, Bama and Tennessee is as intense a rivalry as there is.

Most teams do. Just in the SEC, you have the following (even being conservative)

Alabama: Auburn, LSU, and Tennessee
Auburn: Alabama, Georgia, and LSU
Arkansas: Texas, Texas A&M, and LSU
Florida: FSU, Miami, Georgia, LSU, and Tennessee
Georgia: Georgia Tech, Florida, and South Carolina
Kentucky: Louisville and Tennessee
LSU: Alabama, Auburn, Arkansas, Florida, Ole Miss, and Texas A&M
Missouri: Kansas
Ole Miss: Miss State, LSU, Vandy
Miss State: Ole Miss
South Carolina: Clemson and Georgia
Tennessee: Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, and Vandy
Texas A&M: Arkansas, LSU, and Texas
Vanderbilt: Ole Miss and Tennessee

You could also argue even more rivalries than I listed such as Georgia-Tennessee. I was being conservative.

Interestingly, I would say we are in a similar situation as LSU except LSU's in-state private school rival left the SEC (Tulane)

 

[peaygolf]

Most teams do. Just in the SEC, you have the following (even being conservative)

Alabama: Auburn, LSU, and Tennessee
Auburn: Alabama, Georgia, and LSU
Arkansas: Texas, Texas A&M, and LSU
Florida: FSU, Miami, Georgia, LSU, and Tennessee
Georgia: Georgia Tech, Florida, and South Carolina
Kentucky: Louisville and Tennessee
LSU: Alabama, Auburn, Arkansas, Florida, Ole Miss, and Texas A&M
Missouri: Kansas
Ole Miss: Miss State, LSU, Vandy
Miss State: Ole Miss
South Carolina: Clemson and Georgia
Tennessee: Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, and Vandy
Texas A&M: Arkansas, LSU, and Texas
Vanderbilt: Ole Miss and Tennessee

You could also argue even more rivalries than I listed such as Georgia-Tennessee. I was being conservative.

Interestingly, I would say we are in a similar situation as LSU except LSU's in-state private school rival left the SEC (Tulane)

Everyone has rivals……
a Real Rival….IMO…..is both teams consider each other their biggest rival.
UT does not have that
LSU doesn’t
Vandy doesn’t
Arkansas doesn’t

 

[unfrozencvmanvol]

Auburn is their baby little brother. UT has the most wins against Bama more than any other team.

Auburn has 37 wins against Bama and we have 38, and they've played them about 10 fewer times.

 

[Orange Floyd]

I told a Bama fan that I was a UT grad the other day and watched the bristle at their dislike of the Vols. To say that we aren't a rival of Bama isn't correct, but like most things, it's all subjective and based upon who you ask.

 

[PowerT83]

Might as well at this point in time label every team in the east a rival.

 

[tennesseeduke]

Auburn has 37 wins against Bama and we have 38, and they've played them about 10 fewer times.

Yes thanks to the last 15 years. Before that the series was basically even