Jan. 2, 2020 will mark the sixth straight bowl game Tennessee football has played in as an unranked team. They have not done that since the Bill Battle/Johnny Majors years, and the Vols have never done it six straight times as an unranked team in both polls.
But as they get set to face the Indiana Hoosiers in the Gator Bowl, they will be facing another unranked team. It’s the first time they are facing an unranked team as an unranked team themselves since the last time they went to the Gator Bowl, when they faced the Iowa Hawkeyes in 2015 to end the 2014 and it was called the TaxSlayer Bowl.