#Jeremy Banks

What a season it was for the Tennessee Volunteers football program. The Vols beat Florida, LSU and Alabama, won a New Year's 6 bowl game for the 1st time since January 2005 and finished the season with 11 wins for the 1st time in 21 years. The 2022 season will be remembered by Vols fans for decades to come. But it won't be long before all attention…

The finale of a memorable year for Tennessee football is here. Coming off their first 10-win regular season since 2003, the Vols will face the same team in the postseason they faced that season, although this is a much more prestigious bowl game. Rocky Top, ranked No. 6 across the board, will take on the Clemson Tigers, who are ranked No. 7 in the…

Tennessee football wants revenge for the 2003 Peach Bowl loss to Clemson. The Vols will get their shot at head coach Dabo Swinney and the Tigers in the Orange Bowl on Dec. 30 at 8 p.m. Eastern time on ESPN. This year's Orange Bowl can be taken quite literally. The No. 6 Tennessee Vols take on No. 7 Clemson in a game both sides have wanted to see…

Two storied teams, No. 6 Tennessee (10-2) and No. 7 Clemson (11-2), will meet for the 20th time during the 2022 Capital One Orange Bowl on Dec. 30 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. Both programs are returnees to the Orange Bowl. Tennessee is set for its fifth appearance in the Orange Bowl, while it will be the seventh for Clemson. The…

Miami is set for one of the juicier matchups of the college bowl season on Friday. Tennessee faces Clemson in what may be the orangest Orange Bowl in the game's 87-year history. Our Orange Bowl preview shows how it will be the culmination of an interesting season for each team. For Josh Heupel's orange and white squad, this season was the…

For the first time in over 20 years, Tennessee will play in a New Year's Six bowl game. The 10-2 Volunteers were one of the surprises of the season, storming out to an 8-0 start. Josh Heupel's year two team reached the No. 1 ranking in the first version of the College Football Playoff rankings before ultimately falling to Georgia and South Carolina…

The Opponent: Clemson University was founded in 1889 by Thomas Green Clemson, a wise man who married into considerable money. According to research, Mr. Clemson's Will explicitly directed that the school be modeled after Mississippi State University. Talk about aiming high. In 100+ years since, Clemson has grown into South Carolina's second-largest…

Nick Carner from Tennessee's SB Nation site Rocky Top Talk stops by to talk about the game from a Vols perspective. Matt Goldin: If you had asked most Vol fans before the season how they would feel about a 10-win season, win over Bama, and an appearance in the Orange Bowl, I'm sure they would be thrilled. However, given how this season has gone,…

DANIA BEACH, Fla. -- The Tennessee Volunteers played one game in the regular season without fifth-year senior linebacker Jeremy Banks, and that was the 63-38 loss at South Carolina. Naturally, that topic came up Tuesday as the No. 6 Vols prepare for Friday night's Orange Bowl against No. 7 Clemson without him. The 6-foot-1, 224-pounder announced…

What was a guaranteed blowout a week ago is all of a sudden going to be extremely interesting. Tennessee football heads to Nashville to visit the Vanderbilt Commodores, and the circumstances surrounding this game have completely flipped from what they were just last week. The Vols, initially thinking about checkering Vanderbilt's home stadium with…

Week three is in the books, and as we head towards a full blown SEC schedule, we're beginning to learn more about each team's identity. Tennessee finds themselves ranked 11th, their highest ranking since 2016, after a dominant win over Akron, and they more than covered the -47.5 point spread. Elsewhere, it wasn't quite smooth sailing as both…

The Volunteers head to the Keystone State in a quest for national relevancy The Opponent: The Pitt Panthers are your defending ACC champions, and are coming off an emotional win in the Backyard Brawl against West Virginia. Pitt went 10-2 in their regular season last year, and won the ACC Championship game over Wake Forest. It was the Panthers'…