National outlet gives Tennessee Vols the chance to answer a long-asked question in latest playoff projection
The Tennessee Volunteers and Texas Longhorns have always been a part of a question that's linked them through a pair of letters: which school is the "real UT"? CBS Sports' Jerry Palm's latest college football playoff projection would give the fanbases of each side a shot at some bragging rights on that front. Palm, who […]
The Tennessee Volunteers and Texas Longhorns have always been a part of a question that's linked them through a pair of letters: which school is the "real UT"?
CBS Sports' Jerry Palm's latest college football playoff projection would give the fanbases of each side a shot at some bragging rights on that front.
Palm, who added the Vols into his latest projection on Sunday after they were conspicuously absent for weeks before, has the Vols as the 11 seed and traveling to 6 seeded Texas in the on-campus first round of the playoff.
The Longhorns and Vols don't have much of a football history despite being two marquee names in the sport. The schools have played just three times in their history, all in the Cotton Bowl from the years 1951 to 1969. Tennessee won in 1951 20-14. Texas won the next two matchups in 1953 and 1969.
However, especially with the growth of social media and thus a more wide-spread voice of fans, many have begged the question of which school best deserves to be called UT.
Of course, the University of Tennessee is the older school, having been founded in 1794. Tennessee is also the older state, having been admitted to the union in 1796 as the 16th state. Tennessee also earned the nickname the Volunteer State through the thousands of militiamen and troops who volunteered to help Texas gain their independence from Mexico as well as later serve in the Mexican-American War.
But that still won't stop fans from fighting over which school deserves the title on the football field here in the 21st century. Fortunately, with Texas now a member of the SEC, those meetings will become far more regular.
However, winning a matchup with national title implications on the line would be a big feather in the cap of both fan bases moving forward whenever that question inevitably is asked again.
With both teams having a look at 10-2 or 11-1, it's not out of the realm of possibility to happen.
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