Tennessee football: Vols top 10 greatest games in 2010s decade

There were lots of memorable wins for Tennessee football in the 2010s. Here are the Volunteers’ 10 best games this decade.

Note: This is part of a series of posts recapping the decade for Tennessee football, Tennessee basketball, Tennessee women’s basketball and other Tennessee Vols-related topics.

With their 28-10 win over the Vanderbilt Commodores to finish the 2019 regular season at 7-5, Tennessee football concluded the 2010s decade right at .500, 62-62. That’s not the standard Vol Nation expects, but it’s better than finishing under .500, which would be historically bad given the prestige of this program.

It’s worth noting that a 3-1 bowl record helped Tennessee football get to that point, and their fourth bowl game of seasons this decade will be played on 2020, the start of the next decade. So they are safely at .500 and not in danger of falling below that record.

Anyway, despite a mediocre record in the 2010s, there were still many memorable victories for Rocky Top. In this post, we’re going to take a look at the most memorable outcomes for UT. They are obviously all games UT won, and a variety of different reasons could have made them unforgettable among fans.

Things making a game memorable could be how amazing the finish was was, what the win meant or how impressive the win was. In certain instances, some amazing individual performances made a game memorable.

Since we already recapped the Vols’ bowl games this decade, we are only doing regular season wins here. Yes, in the regular season, UT is only 59-61, but they still have plenty of memorable wins. The best part about the bowl wins for Vol fans is they clinched back to back top 25 finishes for them.

Even in this rough decade, though, these matchups will not soon be forgotten. Every full-time head coach enjoyed at least one. So let’s break them down here. These are the 10 most memorable wins for Tennessee football during the 2010s decade.