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Tennessee routs in-state rival Memphis 56-28 (AP)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:46:59 PST

Jonathan Crompton threw for a career-high 331 yards and five touchdowns and ran for another as Tennessee routed Memphis 56-28 on Saturday night. Crompton surpassed his career high of 310 yards with a 10-yard pass to Denarius Moore on Tennessee's first drive of the second half. He tied his career high of five touchdown passes on the next play with a 16-yard connection to Moore to make it 49-7...

Homecoming on the Hill (Rivals.com)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:44:00 PST

Saturday night, Tennessee heads into the final month of the season with momentum as Memphis comes calling for a...

Surging Williams enjoying the moment (Rivals.com)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:13:00 PST

One of the most improved players over the last month is defensive tackle Dan Williams. The Memphis native leads...

Tennessee Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:16:32 PST

The scoreboard said it was an emphatic 31-13 win against a ranked opponent, the best win of coach Lane Kiffin's first year.

After watching film, Kiffin didn't feel quite as good about the Volunteers' apparent domination of South Carolina.

"I was very disappointed in the offense on the film," he said. "There were a lot of missed assignments and we left a lot of yards out there. Their defense did a good job, but it was about us.

"Our defense put us in position to score with the four turnovers, but we've got a long ways to go offensively. We could have lost that game by too many mistakes."

So Kiffin is putting the pressure on the offense to carry more of the load, beginning with Saturday night's non-conference game against struggling Memphis.

Vols, Gamecocks face turning points for '09 season (AP)

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:00:32 PST

Tennessee and South Carolina's annual meeting has been a kind of turning point for both teams in recent years. The Volunteers (4-4, 2-3 Southeastern Conference) are hoping their 31-13 win over the Gamecocks on Saturday means the start of a strong finish to coach Lane Kiffin's first season. "It was a good win," Vols quarterback Jonathan Crompton said.

Vols wear black jerseys, orange pants on Halloween (AP)

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:16:51 PDT

The Tennessee Volunteers had a Halloween treat -- and a trick -- for their fans on Saturday night. After wearing their traditional orange home jerseys during pregame warmups, the Vols took the field against South Carolina in black jerseys with orange numbers and orange pants. Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin had refused earlier in the week to say if the Vols would wear black on Halloween night, and...

It's a Vol Halloween (Rivals.com)

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:10:00 PDT

Saturday night, the Tennessee football team looks to go trick or treating against the South Carolina Gamecocks...

Kiffin talks recruiting road and closing strong (Rivals.com)

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:43:00 PDT

It doesn't take long if you are around Lane Kiffin to realize that recruiting is always on his mind.

The War Room: Trick or treat style (Rivals.com)

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:16:00 PDT

It's a big weekend on the field and on the recruiting front for Tennessee and their hip-hop cited head...

Rocky Top, you'll always be ... a real place (AP)

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:15:34 PDT

Rocky Top, you'll always be ... a real place. All you South Carolina Gamecock and Alabama Crimson Tide and Florida Gator fans take note: Rocky Top actually exists. It's found 5,441 feet up in the thin air of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the Appalachian Trail. And while it looms large in the imagination, the real place is small: a rocky outcropping about 25 yards long by 10 yards...

Vols Kiffin takes on the coach he's long admired (AP)

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:10:38 PDT

He grew up far away from the Southeastern Conference, but Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin still scanned the dial on Saturday, looking for Steve Spurrier swaggering down the sidelines. He loved how those Florida teams in the 1990s came on the field looking like they were going to win, then usually crushed their opponents.

Kiffin opts not to speak about SEC reprimand (AP)

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:21:41 PDT

Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin is doing his best not to comment about Southeastern Conference officials or the reprimand he received from league commissioner Mike Slive. "I'm not gonna get into it. I'm excited about this matchup versus South Carolina. As hard as it is for me to do, I'm not gonna do that.

Vols in the NFL (Rivals.com)

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:55:00 PDT

Here's a surprise former Vol and future Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning had another big day as the...