In the third installment of the Ten Greatest Tennessee Games of the Past Decade series, we’ll be revisiting the Vols’ 2016 Outback Bowl win over the Northwestern Wildcats. Check out RTT’s Evan Winter’s No. 9: 2012 North Carolina State here.
2015 was a fun year. Despite losing four games during the regular season, Butch Jones and the Vols made several strides in his third year at the helm. It was a season of “firsts” as Jones had the Vols ranked since 2012 and defeated the Georgia Bulldogs for the first time since 2009.