{"id":422426,"date":"2024-07-08T18:23:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T22:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?page_id=422426"},"modified":"2024-07-29T18:37:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T22:37:13","slug":"tennessee-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/tennessee-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee is a program with a rich football history. The Volunteers have played football since 1891 and claim 6 national championships &#8212; 1938, 1940, 1950, 1951, 1967 and 1998. They&#8217;ve also won 13 SEC titles, most recently in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Rocky Top is one of the most iconic songs in college football, and Neyland Stadium is always rocking on Saturday afternoons in Knoxville.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, the Vols have placed plenty of players in the NFL Draft, including many who were selected in Round 1.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Heupel took over the program in 2021 and in only his second year at the helm for Tennessee, managed to end a 15-year losing streak to rival Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the links below to learn all about the history of the Tennessee football program:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/tennessee-history\/ranking-25-greatest-football-players-in-tennessee-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Top 25 Players in Tennessee Football History<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/tennessee-history\/draft-picks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee All-Time First-Round NFL Draft Picks<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tennessee Coaching History<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/coaches\/josh-heupel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Heupel Coach Bio<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Vols are also involved in some iconic college football rivalries, including the aforementioned annual meeting with the Crimson Tide. Click the links below to learn more about Tennessee&#8217;s biggest rivalry games:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/matchups\/tennessee-vs-alabama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee vs. Alabama<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/matchups\/tennessee-vs-georgia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee vs. Georgia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/matchups\/tennessee-vs-kentucky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee vs. Kentucky<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/matchups\/tennessee-vs-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee vs. Florida<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/matchups\/tennessee-vs-vanderbilt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee vs. Vanderbilt<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/matchups\/tennessee-vs-lsu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee vs. LSU<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/matchups\/tennessee-vs-missouri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee vs. Missouri<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee is a program with a rich football history. 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Rocky Top is one of the most iconic songs in college football, and Neyland Stadium is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226253,"featured_media":422427,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"standard.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6504],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422426","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evergreen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/422426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422426"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/422426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423480,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/422426\/revisions\/423480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}