Dawg Sports · Sep 5, 2020
Know Thy Enemy in Orange & White Checkerboard
Happy Kirby is the Best Kirby? Photo by Silas Walker/Getty Images Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
2019 record: 8-5, 5-3 in the conference which was good enough for a respectable 3rd place in the SEC East.
Head Coach: Phil Fulmer aka Jeremy Pruitt (3rd year, 13-12 or 0.520 overall). Jeremy was Phil Fulmer’s choice for Head Coach in a coaching search that resulted in the firing of the AD John Currie in favor of Phil and six months later to the ouster of Chancellor Beverly Davenport. Pruitt was hired a short 25 days after UT sent Lyle “Butch” Jones packing.
Home Stadium: Neyland Stadium (capacity: 102,455)
Alumnus of Note: Saxby Chambliss, Albert Gore, Sr. and Scopes Trial Attorney John R. Neal Jr.