Tennessee Football: Vols Schedule Football Series With BYU Cougars
Tennessee football has scheduled a home and home series with Brigham Young University. The Volunteers will face the Cougars in 2019 and 2023.
The BYU Cougars are not a Power Five team yet, but they are sure scheduling like one. And Tennessee football has decided to consider them one.
The Vols have scheduled a home and home series with BYU that will be four years apart. It will be the first two times the schools ever face each other provided they don’t meet in a bowl game or, in a crazy event, the College Football Playoff, over the next two seasons.
They will host the Cougars in 2019 at Neyland Stadium, and then they will travel to Provo, Utah to face them on the road at LaVell Edwards Stadium in 2023.
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Since Tennessee’s three other non-conference teams in 2019 include Georgia State, Chattanooga, and UAB, the Vols are making it clear that BYU is the big-name team for them to schedule for that year.
BYU began playing football as an Independent in 2011 and has been much more aggressive than most schools in trying to achieve Power Five status.
Their meetings with Tennessee football certainly help that, and they are never an easy out.
So they could easily upset the Vols in either of these games depending on where the programs are at the time.
But the irony of making this schedule now is that over the past 30 years, the two schools have won exactly the same amount of games: 254.
And since 1980, they both have won exactly one national championship. Oh, and Tennessee and BYU have the No. 1 and No. 2 ranked quarterbacks in terms of all-time career quarterback rating in the NFL among retired players.
Peyton Manning is No. 1, Steve Young is No. 2.
Starting quarterbacks from both schools also have a grand total of two Super Bowls each. Young and Jim McMahon each have one with the San Francisco 49ers and Chicago Bears respectively.
And then Peyton Manning has two alone representing Tennessee, one with the Indianapolis Colts and another with the Chicago Bears.