1948 Tennessee Volunteers football team

1948 Tennessee Volunteers football
1948 Tennessee Volunteers football
Conference	Southeastern Conference
Record	4–4–2 (2–3–1 SEC)
Head coach	Robert Neyland (17th season);
Offensive scheme	Single-wing
Home stadium	Shields–Watkins Field
	Seasons ← 1947 1949 →

The 1948 Tennessee Volunteers (variously Tennessee, UT, or the Vols) represented the University of Tennessee in the 1948 college football season. Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Robert Neyland, in his 17th year, and played their home games at Shields–Watkins Field in Knoxville, Tennessee. They finished the season with a record of four wins, four losses and two ties (4–4–2 overall, 2–3–1 in the SEC).

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Tennessee was ranked at No. 29 in the final Litkenhous Difference by Score System ratings for 1948.^[1]

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 25	Mississippi State		Shields–Watkins Field Knoxville, TN	L 6–21	35,000	^[2]
October 2	at Duke*		Duke Stadium Durham, NC	T 7–7	22,000	^[3]
October 9	Chattanooga*	No. 20	Shields–Watkins Field Knoxville, TN	W 26–0		^[4]
October 16	Alabama		Shields–Watkins Field Knoxville, TN (Third Saturday in October)	W 21–6	45,000	^[5]
October 23	Tennessee Tech*		Shields–Watkins Field Knoxville, TN	W 41–0	12,000	^[6]
October 30	No. 3 North Carolina*		Shields–Watkins Field Knoxville, Tennessee	L 7–14	50,000	^[7]
November 6	at No. 6 Georgia Tech		Grant Field Atlanta, GA (rivalry)	W 13–6	38,000	^[8]
November 13	vs. Ole Miss	No. 18	Crump Stadium Memphis, TN (rivalry)	L 13–16	31,000	^[9]
November 20	Kentucky		Shields–Watkins Field Knoxville, TN (rivalry)	T 0–0	35,000	^[10]
November 27	at No. 15 Vanderbilt		Dudley Field Nashville, TN (rivalry)	L 6–28	24,074	^[11]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

	Week
Poll	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
AP	20	—	—	—	—	18	—	—	—

Schedule

1948 Southeastern Conference football standings
v t e	Conf.					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 8 Georgia $	6	–	0	–	0	9	–	2	–	0
No. 15 Ole Miss	6	–	1	–	0	8	–	1	–	0
No. 13 Tulane	5	–	1	–	0	9	–	1	–	0
No. 12 Vanderbilt	4	–	2	–	1	8	–	2	–	1
Georgia Tech	4	–	3	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
Alabama	4	–	4	–	1	6	–	4	–	1
Mississippi State	3	–	3	–	0	4	–	4	–	1
Tennessee	2	–	3	–	1	4	–	4	–	2
Kentucky	1	–	3	–	1	5	–	3	–	2
Florida	1	–	5	–	0	5	–	5	–	0
LSU	1	–	5	–	0	3	–	7	–	0
Auburn	0	–	7	–	0	1	–	8	–	1

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll