Tennessee players take the field as the University of Tennessee Pride of the Southland marching band performs a pregame show and fans checker Neyland Stadium orange and white for the Florida game on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016. 0925 Kcsp Utfl 012 Mp
The last time Tennessee football played a Checker Neyland game, it left a bitter taste in everybody’s mouth on Rocky Top. UT, in its last game in the Smokey Gray uniforms as well, lost at home 41-0 to the Georgia Bulldogs, and at 3-2, Butch Jones was effectively done.
Two months later, Phillip Fulmer took over as athletic director and hired Jeremy Pruitt as head coach.