# 1992 Tennessee Volunteers football team

The 1992 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1992 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Volunteers were a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), in the Eastern Division and played their home games at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee. They finished the season with a record of nine wins and three (9–3 overall, 5–3 in the SEC) and with a victory over Boston College in the Hall of Fame Bowl. The Volunteers offense scored 347 points while the defense allowed 196 points.
Johnny Majors was to enter his sixteenth season as the Volunteers' head coach for the 1992 season. However, in August, Majors underwent emergency quintuple bypass surgery, and as a result Phillip Fulmer was named interim head coach. After Fulmer led the Vols to a 3–0 start, Majors returned and led Tennessee to a 5–3 finish. By the end of the season, the university bought-out the remainder of Majors' contract, and on November 29, Fulmer was named as the Volunteers' new head coach effective after the Hall of Fame Bowl. However, on December 4, Majors announced he would not coach the team in the bowl game, and as a result Fulmer went on to coach the Volunteers to 38–23 victory over Boston College in his first game as Tennessee's full-time head coach. The school officially credits Majors with a record of five wins and three losses (5–3) and Fulmer with four wins and zero losses (4–0) for the 1992 season.

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Opponent | Rank | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
| September 5 | 1:00 p.m. | Southwestern Louisiana* | No. 22 | Neyland StadiumKnoxville, TN | | W 38–3 | 95,110 |
| September 12 | 3:30 p.m. | at No. 14 Georgia | No. 20 | Sanford StadiumAthens, GA (rivalry) | ESPN | W 34–31 | 85,434 |
| September 19 | 3:30 p.m. | No. 4 Florida | No. 14 | Neyland StadiumKnoxville, TN (rivalry) | ABC | W 31–14 | 97,137 |
| September 26 | 4:00 p.m. | Cincinnati* | No. 8 | Neyland StadiumKnoxville, TN | PPV | W 40–0 | 96,597 |
| October 3 | 7:30 p.m. | at LSU | No. 7 | Tiger StadiumBaton Rouge, LA | ESPN | W 20–0 | 68,318 |
| October 10 | 12:30 p.m. | Arkansas | No. 4 | Neyland StadiumKnoxville, TN | JPS | L 24–25 | 95,202 |
| October 17 | 3:30 p.m. | No. 4 Alabama | No. 13 | Neyland StadiumKnoxville, TN (Third Saturday in October) | ABC | L 10–17 | 97,388 |
| October 31 | 12:30 p.m. | at South Carolina | No. 16 | Williams–Brice StadiumColumbia, SC (rivalry) | JPS | L 23–24 | 71,529 |
| November 14 | 1:30 p.m. | at Memphis State* | No. 23 | Liberty Bowl Memorial StadiumMemphis, TN | PPV | W 26–21 | 65,234 |
| November 21 | 1:00 p.m. | Kentucky | No. 20 | Neyland StadiumKnoxville, TN (rivalry) | | W 34–13 | 94,110 |
| November 28 | 2:30 p.m. | at Vanderbilt | No. 18 | Vanderbilt StadiumNashville, TN (rivalry) | PPV | W 29–25 | 41,000 |
| January 1 | 11:05 a.m. | vs. No. 16 Boston College* | No. 17 | Tampa StadiumTampa, FL (Hall of Fame Bowl) | ESPN | W 38–23 | 52,056 |
| *Non-conference gameHomecomingRankings from AP Poll released prior to the gameAll times are in Eastern time |||||||||

## Team players drafted into the NFL

| Player | Position | Round | Pick | NFL club |
| Todd Kelly | Defensive end | 1 | 27 | San Francisco 49ers |
| Dave Thomas | Defensive back | 8 | 203 | Dallas Cowboys |
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