Tennessee football’s 10 toughest records to break

3. Fuad Reveiz: 60-yard field goal

1982 at Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

This is an SEC record that still stands, and while kickers have made longer field goals, that’s much more rare at the college level. Tennessee football is almost certainly likely to never have another kicker who could match what Fuad Reveiz did in 1982, arguably the greatest season for a kicker in the history of the SEC, and this game was just part of it.

Reveiz nailed a 60-yard field goal in a 31-21 loss at the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Now, here’s the kicker, no pun intended. In that time, the NCAA let specialists kick field goals off a tee. As a result, it was much more likely for place kicker to be able to nail long field goals, and Reveiz, a future NFL Pro Bowler, was able to take advantage of that.

Two weeks later, Reveiz had what was easily the best game ever for a UT kicker, as he nailed five field goals and hit two beyond 50 yards. However, Alan Duncan and Alex Walls have each hit five field goals in a game, and Reveiz would do it himself later that year against the Kentucky Wildcats. So that’s not an unbreakable record.

Nailing a 60-yarder, though, seems far-fetched. Just this past year, Brent Cimaglia hit the longest field goal by a UT kicker in 24 years, and it was only 53 yards. As a result, Reveiz’s record seems pretty safe, so we’re putting it high on this list.