The Official Countdown To Tennessee Football 2026 (Sat. Sept 5th Furman) (145 Days)

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156 Days!
Bob Foxx
1940
Halfback
Knoxville

Bobb Foxx manned the backfield during Robert R. Neyland's second stint as coach of the Vols and earned All-America status his senior year of 1940.

Foxx earned three letters at Tennessee and was part of three consecutive SEC championship teams from 1938-40. The Vols were crowned national champion in 1938 and 1940.

Throughout Foxx's three-year career, he led the rushing attack that allowed the Vols to go unbeaten and untied in each regular season. The 1938 season was the year in which Tennessee held its opponents scoreless during the regular season. Foxx was voted Knoxville's greatest athlete of the first half-century by the Knoxville Journal readers.

 

[NO SIR EEE]

155 Days!
Dick Huffman played right tackle on the 1942 Vols before World War II interrupted his college career. He returned to Tennessee in 1946 and earned All-America honors following the four-year break from football.

With Huffman on the line, the Vols made a full return to prominence in the South, winning the 1946 SEC championship behind a 9-2 record. Huffman and the defensive line held five opponents to seven points or less, collecting two shutouts in the closing years of the two-way player. Huffman was one of only two players to earn All-America honors in six seasons following World War II.

 

[NO SIR EEE]

I'm gonna go ahead and knock out Saturday and Sunday

154 Days!

Manning the offensive and defensive lines after World War II was Bob Dobelstein at right guard, earning All-America honors as a junior in 1944. It was also the year he served as captain of the team, the only junior in UT history to do so until the 2003 season.

Tennessee did not field a team in 1943 because of World War II. However, Dobelstein helped lead the Vols to a 7-1-1 record in 1944, completing an unbeaten regular season before losing to Southern California in the Rose Bowl. Tennessee went 8-1 the following year to set the table for an SEC title run in 1945.

 

[NO SIR EEE]

153 Days!

Hank Lauricella was "Mr. Everything" during one of the most prominent stretches in UT football history. While the 1948 recruits have been called the best freshman class in Vol history, Lauricella proved as much three years later. In the 1951 Cotton Bowl against Texas, Lauricella set up Tennessee's first score with a 75-yard run - perhaps the most memorable run in school history. The next season he was named All-SEC and All-America, averaging a school-record 7.9 yards per carry in leading the Vols to a 10-0 regular season. Tennessee was named national champion prior to its Sugar Bowl appearance, and Lauricella finished second in the Heisman Trophy voting.

 

[Tin Man]

@NO SIR EEE
Don’t let us start worrying about you

 

[IndianaVol]

@NO SIR EEE
Don’t let us start worrying about you

Yeah...our friend is almost a week behind.
Hopefully, he didn't succumb to the vices of Spring Break and is locked away in a Mexican jail for violations beyond fathom...or maybe we hope he is

 

[MemphisVol77]

 

[NO SIR EEE]

I am alive boys. I’ll be back on it ASAP. Sorry, spring break from school as a teacher and year round coach, I was enjoying a little vacation.

 

[NO SIR EEE]

152 Days!
Johnnie Jones burst onto the scene with a 234-yard performance against Rutgers in 1983. That effort shattered Stanley Morgan’s long-standing record of 201 rushing yards set against Hawaii in 1975. Later that same season, Jones would top even his own mark, piling up 248 yards against Vanderbilt.

In the 1984 season opener versus Washington State, he added another standout game with 203 rushing yards. Remarkably, Jones remains the only Tennessee Volunteers running back to record three 200-yard rushing games.

His achievements earned him All-SEC honors in 1983 and 1984, along with Second Team All-America recognition in 1984. Between 1981 and 1984, Jones set numerous school rushing records and still stands among the greatest running backs in Tennessee football history.

 

[NO SIR EEE]

151 Days!
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Sept. 30, 1967) —

Two weeks after losing to UCLA, Tennessee bounced back to beat Auburn, 27-13 at Neyland Stadium.

It began a nine-game win streak through the end of the regular season, including an SEC title and Orange Bowl berth.

 

[NO SIR EEE]

150 Days!

Freshman fullback Curt Watson dazzled in front of 17,000 fans at Neyland Stadium during the annual Orange and White Game, rushing for 193 yards on May 10, 1969.

Watson totaled 807 yards and six touchdowns later that season.

 

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149 Days!

Tennessee climaxed its 1957 season against Bear Bryant and Texas A&M in the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville.

The game is most remembered for Bobby Gordon’s violent collision with John David Crow. Gordon recovered to help the Vols to a 3-0 triumph.

 

[NO SIR EEE]

148 Days!

On September 9th, 1989, Sterl The Pearl opened the way for Tennessee's 24-6 win over Number 6 UCLA with a 2-yard touchdown run at the Rose Bowl.

It was the Vols' first-ever score at The Rose Bowl. They were shut out twice there by USC in 1940 & 1945.

 

[NO SIR EEE]

147 Days!

On November 10th, 2007, Jerod Mayo provided the exclamation point with a 34-yard interception return for a touchdown in the final minutes of Tennessee's 34-13 thrashing of Arkansas at Neyland.

 

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146 Days!

On September 11th, 1993, Cory Fleming caught the first of two touchdown passes from Heath Shuler in the first quarter to set the stage for Number 8 Tennessee's 38-6 rout of Number 22 Georgia.

 

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145 Days!

On November 27th, 2004, Tennessee came from behind to beat Kentucky 37-31 at Neyland. Gerald Riggs scored the go-ahead touchdown on a 15-yard run with 38 seconds left.

 

[WillisWG]

145 days...I might just make it