Look: Win totals for nine Tennessee Football opponents on the 2024 schedule
Tennessee Football’s win total was set at nine according to numbers released Sunday afternoon by Circa Sports. The same listing had win totals for nine of Tennessee’s opponents, including all eight SEC games.
Here’s a look at the win totals for nine of Tennessee’s 12 opponents on the 2024 schedule:
10.5 — Georgia (November 16, Athens)
Georgia has won seven straight against Tennessee. The Vols won back-to-back games in the series in 2015 and 2016, winning 38-31 in Knoxville in 2015 and 34-31 in 2016, when Jauan Jennings hauled in the Hail Mary touchdown from Joshua Dobbs on the last play of the game.
9.5 — Alabama (October 19, Knoxville)
Alabama overcame a 20-7 halftime deficit in October to beat Tennessee 34-20. The 52-49 win for the in October 2022 at Neyland Stadium broke the Crimson Tide’s streak of 15 straight wins in the series. Tennessee won seven in a row between 1995 and 2001 and won 10 of 12 between 1995 and 2006.
8.5 — NC State (September 7, Charlotte)
Tennessee is 2-1 against North Carolina State. The Vols lost 16-0 in Raleigh in 1911, won 13-0 in Raleigh in 1939 and beat the Wolfpack 35-21 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta in 2012. The 2024 game is another neutral-site meeting, with the two teams playing at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte.
7.5 — Oklahoma (September 21, Norman)
The two teams have met only four times, with Oklahoma winning the last three. Tennessee beat the Sooner 17-0 in the 1939 Orange Bowl, capping an 11-0 season in which the Tennessee defense allowed only 16 total points. Oklahoma won 26-24 in the 1968 Orange Bowl, won 34-10 in Norman in 2014 and won 31-24 in overtime at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville in 2016.
6.5 — Kentucky (November 2, Knoxville)
Tennessee has won ten of its last 12 games against Kentucky, dating back to 2012, including the 33-27 win in Lexington in October. The Wildcats won at Neyland Stadium in 2020, their first win in Knoxville since 1984, and in Lexington in 2011 and 2017.
5 — Arkansas (October 5, Fayetteville)
The two teams have played only 19 times dating back to 1907, with Tennessee winning 13 of the meetings. Arkansas has won three straight — the Hogs won 24-13 in Fayetteville during the COVID-shortened 2020 season, the last time the two teams met — and four of the last five, though, going back to 2006.
5 — Florida (October 12, Knoxville)
Tennessee lost a tough one in Gainesville last September, 29-16. Tennessee’s 38-33 win at Neyland Stadium the previous September snapped five-game losing streak in the series that dated back to the 38-28 win in Knoxville in 2016.
4.5 — Mississippi State (November 9, Knoxville)
Tennessee is 29-16-1 in the all-time series against Mississippi State, dating back to 1907. The Vols have won 10 of the last 12, including a 20-10 win at Neyland Stadium in 2019, the most recent matchup. Tennessee hasn’t played in Starkville since 2012.
3 — Vanderbilt (November 30, Nashville)
Tennessee has won five straight in the series after Vanderbilt had a run of five wins in seven years between 2012 and 2018. The Vols won 22 straight between 1983 and 2004, before Vandy came to Knoxville and won 28-24 in 2005.
