Some of the greatest success Tennessee football has seen throughout its past has been due to elite production from place kickers. Gen. Robert Neyland’s sixth game maxim makes it clear: Press the kicking game for here’s where the breaks are made.
The Vols have won crucial games and even championships in the past specifically due to the elite performance of place kickers. They have also seen themselves come up in short in plenty of crucial games due to the same issues.
If not for problems specifically in the kicking game, Tennessee football would have gone 11-1-1 in 1990 and likely would have won a national championship.