1951 Tennessee Volunteers football team information
American college football season
1951Tennessee Volunteers football
Consensus national champion SEC co-champion
Sugar Bowl, L 13–28 vs. Maryland
Conference
Southeastern Conference
Ranking
Coaches
No. 1
AP
No. 1
Record
10–1 (5–0 SEC)
Head coach
Robert Neyland (20th season)
Offensive scheme
Single-wing
Base defense
Multiple
Home stadium
Shields–Watkins Field
Seasons
← 1950
1952 →
1951 Southeastern Conference football standings
v
t
e
Conf
Overall
Team
W
L
T
W
L
T
No. 5 Georgia Tech +
7
–
0
–
0
11
–
0
–
1
No. 1 Tennessee +
5
–
0
–
0
10
–
1
–
0
LSU
4
–
2
–
1
7
–
3
–
1
Ole Miss
4
–
2
–
1
6
–
3
–
1
No. 15 Kentucky
3
–
3
–
0
8
–
4
–
0
Auburn
3
–
4
–
0
5
–
5
–
0
Vanderbilt
3
–
5
–
0
6
–
5
–
0
Alabama
3
–
5
–
0
5
–
6
–
0
Florida
2
–
4
–
0
5
–
5
–
0
Georgia
2
–
4
–
0
5
–
5
–
0
Mississippi State
2
–
5
–
0
4
–
5
–
0
Tulane
1
–
5
–
0
4
–
6
–
0
+ – Conference co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll
The 1951 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1951 college football season. In his next to last season as head coach, Robert Neyland led the Vols to their second consecutive national title and the fourth during his tenure. The 1951 title was also the first undisputed, at the time, national title in school history. Maryland has since been retroactively credited with the 1951 national championship by several selectors, including analyst Jeff Sagarin, as they went undefeated that year and beat Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl. At the time, the AP awarded the title before the bowl games were played. 1951 was also Neyland's ninth undefeated regular season in his career. The 1950 Tennessee team had gone 11–1, winning its last nine games and capping the season off with a victory over Texas in the Cotton Bowl. In 1951, The Vols put together a 10–0 regular season and were voted national champs by the AP Poll before the bowl season began, as was the convention at the time. In addition to AP, Tennessee was named national champion by NCAA-designated major selectors Litkenhous, United Press International (coaches poll), and Williamson,[1] leading to a consensus national champion designation.[1]: 120
The game against Alabama on the Third Saturday in October that season was the first ever nationally televised game for both teams. The Vols were a dominant team in the regular season, winning their first nine games by a combined score of 338 to 61 before thwarting a spirited effort by in-state rival Vanderbilt in the last game of the regular season, 35–27.
^ ab2017 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records(PDF). Indianapolis: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. July 2017. Retrieved July 31, 2017.: 113
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