Tennessee athletic director Danny White confirms his plan for scheduling future Vols football games
Tennessee Vols athletic director Danny White confirmed during an appearance on 99.1 The Sports Animal that he plans to move away from scheduling neutral site games for UT football on Wednesday. White said he plans to schedule more home-and-home series in the future. With the SEC moving to a nine-game conference schedule starting in 2026, White’s […]
Tennessee Vols athletic director Danny White confirmed during an appearance on 99.1 The Sports Animal that he plans to move away from scheduling neutral site games for UT football on Wednesday.
White said he plans to schedule more home-and-home series in the future.
With the SEC moving to a nine-game conference schedule starting in 2026, White’s approach will be to schedule a home non-conference game in seasons when Tennessee has only four home conference games. In seasons with five home conference games, the Vols will schedule a road non-conference game.
“That’s my goal, and we’ll see,” said White when asked if he plans to avoid scheduling neutral site games in the future. “We’ll see if we’re successful. But that’s our intention. And we had looking at through the Washington series*, which is as far out as we are on the books, and we’ve been kind of in a little bit of a holding pattern, waiting until everything got finalized with the SEC schedule.
“But our goal is, through Washington, we have it set up that way, where when we only have four SEC games at home, we are supplementing it with the fifth home game with a power conference opponent. And so as we build on that past the Washington series, that’s our goal — to keep it that way.”
*Tennessee and Washington are scheduled to play in Knoxville in 2029 and in Seattle in 2030.
Tennessee only has one neutral site game currently scheduled
For now, the Vols have only one neutral-site game scheduled. Tennessee and West Virginia are slated to play in Charlotte in 2028. The Vols previously played against West Virginia in Charlotte to open the 2018 season — a game the Mountaineers won 40-14.
Tennessee will play five home conference games in 2028, so the neutral-site game against West Virginia will serve as a replacement for a road game against a non-conference power opponent.
The Vols are scheduled to play at Georgia Tech in 2026 before hosting the Yellow Jackets in 2027.
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