Tennessee football season tickets sold out for fourth straight year by: Grant Ramey 57 minutes ago GrantRamey Read In App Tennessee football has sold out its allotment of 70,500 season tickets, the Vols announced on Tuesday. It’s the fourth straight year that season tickets have sold out at Neyland Stadium. Tennessee updated the season-ticket interest list at 29,414 fans as of Tuesday. The season-ticket renewal rate was 97% for a second straight year. The Vols open the season at home against Furman on September 5, play Georgia Tech at Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta on September 12 and is back home against Kennesaw State on September 19. “We often talk about how Vol Nation sets us apart, and this is yet another remarkable testament to that,” Tennessee athletic director Danny White said in a statement. “Four consecutive seasons of selling out more than 70,000 season tickets is further proof that the best fans in all of sports are on Rocky Top. We can’t wait to feel the Neyland Effect this fall!” Tennessee sold 61,490 season tickets in 2023, the last time season tickets were not sold out. Tennessee plays three of first four SEC games at home The SEC schedule starts with three of four games at home, against Texas (September 26), Auburn (October 3) and Alabama (October 10). Tennessee play on the road at Arkansas (October 10), South Carolina (October 24), Texas A&M (November 14) and Vanderbilt (November 28). Tennessee’s other SEC home games are Kentucky (November 7) and LSU (November 21). The 2026 season will be Tennessee’s first schedule without both Georgia and Florida since 1992. The Vols have never played Texas in the regular season. The three previous meetings were all in the Cotton Bowl, with the Vols winning 20-14 on New Year’s Day 1951 and the Longhorns winning 16-0 on New Year’s Day 1953 and 36-13 on New Year’s Day 1969. Tennessee and Auburn haven’t played since 2020 and South Carolina has been off the schedule the last two seasons. The Vols beat Texas A&M at home in 2023, but haven’t played the Aggies on the road since 2016. They won at LSU in 2022 but haven’t hosted the Tigers since 2017. Tennessee’s Future Schedules The SEC in September announced Tennessee’s three annual rivals in the new nine-game format are Alabama, Kentucky and Vanderbilt. Opponents are set for the next four seasons, with each team playing its three rivals while rotating through the league with the other six games. The Kentucky series is Tennessee’s most played , with 120 games dating back to 1893, and the Vanderbilt series is the oldest , with its 119 games dating back to 1892. Tennessee-Alabama is the most notable rivalry for the Vols, though, with the ‘Third Saturday in October’ having been played 107 times since 1901. 1 Jameson Williams files lawsuit over NIL misuse New 2 NCAA's tampering fix: Guilty-until-proven-innocent 3 Kentucky AD search: Latest intel 4 Brendan Sorsby: Everything to know about gambling, absence 5 Where does Texas Tech pivot after Brendan Sorsby news? View All Get the On3 Top 10 Newsletter in your inbox every morning Email Subscribe to Newsletter By clicking "Subscribe to Newsletter", I agree to On3's Privacy Notice , Terms , and use of my personal information described therein. 2027 Home (4): Florida, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Vanderbilt Away (5): Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma 2028 Home (5): Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, South Carolina, Texas A&M Away (4): Auburn, LSU, Texas, Vanderbilt 2029 Home (4): Georgia, Missouri, Oklahoma, Vanderbilt Away (5): Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Ole Miss, Mississippi State Tennessee’s upcoming non-conference opponents Tennessee has non-conference opponents scheduled through the 2030 season , including a power-conference opponent for each of the next five seasons. After hosting Furman and Kennesaw State and going to Georgia Tech this seaosn, the Vols host Tennessee State, Georgia Tech and Western Michigan in 2027. Tennessee and West Virginia will play a neutral-site game in Charlotte, N.C., in 2028. The Vols then have a home-and-home with Washington, starting in Knoxville in 2029 before going to Seattle in 2030.
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