1993 Tennessee Volunteers football team

The 1993 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1993 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Volunteers offense scored 484 points while the defense allowed 175 points. Phillip Fulmer was the head coach and led the club to an appearance in the Florida Citrus Bowl.

1993 Tennessee Volunteers football
SEC Eastern Division co-champion
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
DivisionEastern Division
Ranking
CoachesNo. 11
APNo. 12
Record10–2 (7–1 SEC)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorDavid Cutcliffe
Defensive coordinatorLarry Marmie
Captains
Home stadiumNeyland Stadium
(Capacity: 91,902)[1]
1993 Southeastern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Eastern Division
No. 5 Florida x$ 7 1 011 2 0
No. 12 Tennessee* x 6 1 19 2 1
Kentucky 4 4 06 6 0
Georgia 2 6 05 6 0
South Carolina* 2 6 04 7 0
Vanderbilt* 1 7 04 7 0
Western Division
No. 4 Auburn8 0 011 0 0
No. 14 Alabama* x 5 2 19 3 1
Arkansas* 3 4 15 5 1
LSU 3 5 05 6 0
Ole Miss* 3 5 05 6 0
Mississippi State* 2 5 13 6 2
Championship: Florida 28, Alabama 13
  • $ Conference champion
  • x Division champion/co-champions
  • † – Ineligible for the postseason due to NCAA probation.
    * – Alabama later forfeited all regular-season wins and one tie due to NCAA violations, giving an official record of 1–12 overall and 0–8 SEC. The forfeit of the tie retroactively gave Tennessee a share of the East title.
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentRankSiteTVResultAttendanceSource
September 44:00 p.m.Louisiana Tech*No. 10PPVW 50–095,106[2]
September 117:30 p.m.No. 22 GeorgiaNo. 8
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, Tennessee (rivalry)
ESPNW 38–696,228
September 183:30 p.m.at No. 9 FloridaNo. 5ABCL 34–4185,247
September 2512:30 p.m.LSUNo. 11
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, Tennessee
JPSW 42–2095,931
October 24:00 p.m.Duke*daggerNo. 11
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, Tennessee
PPVW 52-1996,173
October 912:30 p.m.at ArkansasNo. 11JPSW 28–1454,150
October 163:30 p.m.at No. 2 AlabamaNo. 10ABCW 17–17 (Alabama forfeit)83,091
October 3012:30 p.m.South CarolinaNo. 8
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, Tennessee
JPSW 55–394,791
November 63:30 p.m.No. 13 Louisville*No. 7
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, Tennessee
ABCW 45–1094,826
November 207:30 p.m.at KentuckyNo. 7ESPNW 48–057,878
November 2712:30 p.m.VanderbiltNo. 6
  • Neyland Stadium
  • Knoxville, Tennessee (rivalry)
JPSW 62–1494,225
January 11:00 p.m.vs. No. 13 Penn State*No. 6ABCL 13–3172,456
  • Alabama was forced to forfeit the 17–17 tie per NCAA sanctions.

Roster

1993 Tennessee Volunteers football team roster
Players Coaches
Offense
Pos.#NameClass
WR 12 Cory Fleming Sr
RB 33 James Stewart Jr
QB 21 Heath Shuler Jr
Defense
Pos.#NameClass
DE 99 Paul Yatkowski Sr
Special teams
Pos.#NameClass
Head coach
Coordinators/assistant coaches

Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • (S) Suspended
  • (I) Ineligible
  • Injured Injured
  • Redshirt Redshirt

Team players drafted into the NFL

PlayerPositionRoundPickNFL club
Heath ShulerQuarterback13Washington Redskins
Charlie GarnerRunning back242Philadelphia Eagles
Cory FlemingWide receiver387San Francisco 49ers
Shane BonhamDefensive tackle393Detroit Lions
Horace MorrisLinebacker5152New York Jets

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Awards and honors

The 1993 Tennessee Volunteers football team did not win they SEC East, nor did they win their respective bowl game. The proud tradition of Alabama football took a severe hit later that when the NCAA put the Crimson Tide on probation for three years, including a ban on postseason games after this season, and forced the school to forfeit eight victories and a tie from 1993.

You may be wondering. How does this effect The Tennessee Volunteers? Well it’s simple. One of the Vols losses that year was to Alabama, who which we know now, forfeited 11 of their victories. So after the subtraction of that one loss Tennessee Volunteers were tied with the Florida Gators for a SEC co-championship after this discovery.

There were later findings that Cornerback Antonio Langham's signing with an agent hours after Alabama clinched that sixth championship with a victory over Miami in the 1993 Sugar Bowl led to one of the infractions cited by the NCAA. Another infraction involved former defensive back Gene Jelks, who received $24,400 in improper loans from August 1989 through May 1990.

References

  1. "Neyland Stadium". utsports.com. Archived from the original on November 19, 2012. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
  2. "Vols find comfortable point". The Tennessean. September 5, 1993. Retrieved July 15, 2021 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "1994 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Archived from the original on December 22, 2007. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
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