The Official #23 Tennessee vs #13 Northwestern Outback Bowl Thread, 12:00 pm ET ESPN2

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#23 Tennessee Volunteers: 8-4 (5-3 SEC)

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# 13 Northwestern Wildcats: 10-2 (6-2 BIG 10)

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12:00 PM ET, January 1, 2016
Raymond James Stadium (65,657), Tampa, FL


Weather: 78 degrees / Precip: --
Line: UT -8.5
O/U: 47.5


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>> Butch Jones has led the Vols to consecutive bowls under the same head coach for the first time since 2006-07 (Phillip Fulmer).

>> The Vols became bowl eligible at the earliest date (Nov. 14) since the 2007 season (Nov. 3).

>> The Vols have their first five- game win streak & first eight-win season since 2007 when UT won its last 5 games to finish 9-3.

>> In Joshua Dobbs’ last 18 starts, the Vols are 13-5, averaging 33.6 points, 424 yards/game.

>> Jalen Hurd is the first sopho- more to gain 2,000 yards in Ten- nessee history. With 1,158 yards, he is the 18th 1000-yard rusher at UT.

>> Tennessee has 2,682 rush- ing yards in 12 games (with eight games of 200+ yards), UT’s most in a season since 2,701 in 1989.

>> The Vols are the only team to have played two of the four CFB Playo teams (Okla. and Alabama).

>> The Vols’ four losses have come by a total of 17 points to teams with a combined record of 36-8 (.818), including three teams with a record of 10-1 (Okla., Florida, Alabama).
 
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>> The Vols lead the NCAA in kick- o return average (33.4).

>> SEC Special Teams Player of the Year Evan Berry leads the nation in kicko return average with 38.3.

>> Berry is one of four players in the nation with 3 kicko returns for touchdown (vs. WCU, Ark., at UK)

>> Berry’s 34.8 career kicko re- turn average is No. 1 in UT history.

>> With three kicko return touch- downs, Berry has tied Willie Gault (in 1980) for most kicko returns for scores in a season at UT & SEC.

>> The Vols have a modern pro- gram history record six special teams touchdowns (3 KOR, 3 PR).

>> After not accomplishing the feat of having a kicko return & punt re- turn for TD in the same game since 1950, UT has done it twice this season.

>> Cameron Sutton leads the NCAA in punt return average (18.7).

>> Trevor Daniel is eighth in the NCAA and second in the SEC in punting average at 45.6.

>> Of Daniel’s 56 punts, 20 have traveled 50-plus yards and 23 have landed inside the 20-yard line.
 
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>> The Vols are making their 51st all-time bowl appearance, tied for fourth-most among all programs.

>> UT is 26-24 all-time in bowls.

>> The Vols are playing in their 33rd January bowl game and sec- ond in a row.

>> This is the Vols’ fourth all-time appearance in the Outback Bowl (previously known as the Hall of Fame Bowl).

>> The Vols are 2-1 all-time in the Outback Bowl, winning their last appearance in the bowl, 21-17, over Wisconsin on Jan. 1, 2008. Tennes- see also beat Boston College in the 1993 Hall of Fame Bowl, 38-23. The Vols lost the 2007 bowl to Penn State, 20-10.

>> The Vols and Northwestern have played once before with Tennessee posting a 48-28 win in the 1997 Florida Citrus Bowl led by Peyton Manning’s 408 passing yards and four touchdown passes.

>> The Vols are 4-1 all-time in games played in Tampa, Fla.

>> Butch Jones began his career as an intern in the Tampa Bay Buc- caneers from 1987-89.
 
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Thanks Yank. And let the record show that Volly stepped up and filled in nicely when I panicked that you weren't going to show. :)

Thanks Volly.
 
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**** those uppity English majors! Let's give em a big orange whoopin!
 
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Freak said:
Thanks Yank. And let the record show that Volly stepped up and filled in nicely when I panicked that you weren't going to show. :)

Thanks Volly.
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Yank deserves the guru tag. That's a lot of damn work he does.
 
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Boom! Its over, northwestern just don't know it yet!
 
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Northwestern has cool colors and what not but swag like that should not be wasted on those uppity sons of *****es from Chicago, so yeah **** them.
 
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Freak said:
Thanks Yank. And let the record show that Volly stepped up and filled in nicely when I panicked that you weren't going to show. :)

Thanks Volly.
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Duly noted. :)


I am a little disappointed that you thought I would miss the Bowl Game Thread though.
 
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Yankee_Vol said:
Duly noted. :)


I am a little disappointed that you thought I would miss the Bowl Game Thread though.
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I knew you would do everything you could to be here, but I also knew you were traveling. And sometimes life does get in the way. But I won't doubt you again. :)
 
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As a mod and the chosen one to run the site from Freak in a hostile takeover, Yank won't be a GURU. MY RULING IS FINAL.
 
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