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GENERAL STAFF PLAYERS REVIEW HISTORY GENERAL STAFF PLAYERS REVIEW HISTORY RECORDS BOWL GENERAL STAFF PLAYERS REVIEW HISTORY HONORS VOLMANAC HISTORY RECORDS 15 1515 HONORS VOLMANAC 2017 RECORDS STAFF UTSPORTS.COM // @VOL_FOOTBALL @VOL_FOOTBALL // UTSPORTS.COM UTSPORTS.COM // @VOL_FOOTBALL // UTSPORTS.COM TENNESSEE TENNESSEE UTSPORTS.COM // @VOL_FOOTBALL STAFF BUTCH JONES HEAD COACH FIFTH SEASON AT TENNESSEE FERRIS STATE ’90 Butch Jones enters his fifth season at Tennessee and his COACHING CAREER 11th season overall as a head coach in 2017 with a résumé that not only places him among the top coaches in the Year School Position Southeastern Conference, but also the entire country. 1987-89 Tampa Bay (NFL) Intern Jones’ teams have won four conference championships, 1990-92 Rutgers Graduate Assistant advanced to eight bowls and finished in the Top 25 five 1993-94 Wilkes Univ. Offensive Coordinator times during his 10 seasons as a head coach at Tennessee, 1995 Ferris State Running Backs Cincinnati and Central Michigan. Along the way, Jones has 1996-97 Ferris State Offensive Coordinator coached six All-Americans, 76 all-conference selections and 1998 Central Michigan Tight Ends 21 NFL Draft picks, including the NFL’s highest-paid wide 1999 Central Michigan Wide Receivers receiver Antonio Brown, and Tennessee’s most recent first- 2000 Central Michigan Running Backs round pick, Derek Barnett, who was selected at No. 14 by 2001-03 Central Michigan Offensive Coordinator the Philadelphia Eagles in 2017. Jones holds an 80-48 record 2004 Central Michigan Running Backs (.625) in 10 seasons as a head coach. 2005-06 West Virginia Wide Receivers Tennessee is one of just three SEC teams to win at least 2007-09 Central Michigan Head Coach nine games the last two seasons and one of just nine teams 2010-12 Cincinnati Head Coach in the nation to win bowl games in three consecutive seasons 2013- Tennessee Head Coach heading into the fall. Momentum continues to build on Rocky Top under Jones as the charismatic leader has pushed the HEAD COACHING RECORD Vols to a 30-21 mark and three straight winning seasons Year Team Record Final Rank Conference for the first time in 12 years, while instilling a championship AP/Coaches culture back to a program that had recorded just one 2007 Central Michigan 8-6 -/- 6-1 (1st) winning season in the previous five years when he took over 2008 Central Michigan 8-5 -/- 6-2 (t-2nd) Tennessee prior to the 2013 campaign. 2009 Central Michigan 11-2 23/24 8-0 (1st) Faced with a rebuild when he was announced as the new 2010 Cincinnati 4-8 -/- 2-5 (7th) head coach on Dec. 7, 2012, Jones has remodeled the Vols 2011 Cincinnati 10-3 25/21 5-2 (t-1st) “brick by brick” into a consistent winner in his own image, as 2012 Cincinnati 9-3 RV/22 5-2 (t-1st) a passionate, competitive and consistent band of brothers, 2013 Tennessee 5-7 -/- 2-6 (6th East) working tirelessly to bring Tennessee back to the top of the 2014 Tennessee 7-6 -/- 3-5 (t-4th East) SEC. 2015 Tennessee 9-4 22/23 5-3 (t-2nd East) Jones also has made developing men off the field a 2016 Tennessee 9-4 22/24 4-4 (t-2nd East) top priority at Tennessee and throughout his career. He TOTALS 10 seasons 80-48 46-30 has coached 203 academic all-conference award winners, 4 Conf. Championships including 109 SEC academic honor roll recipients at Tennessee. Under Jones, every academic record in Tennessee 8 BOWL TEAMS, 4 CONF. CHAMPS football history has been broken and 84 Vols have earned Year Team Record Conf. Bowl degrees. In 2016, three Vols collected Academic All-District 2007 Central Michigan 8-6 MAC Champs Motor City honors, while every senior on the 2016 team graduated 2008 Central Michigan 8-5 MAC West - T-2nd Motor City with a degree. Last spring, Joshua Dobbs received the 2009 Central Michigan 11-2 MAC Champs GMAC Torchbearer Award for 2016-17 – the highest honor given to 2011 Cincinnati 10-3 BIG EAST Champs Liberty a student at the University of Tennessee in recognition of 2012 Cincinnati 9-3 BIG EAST Champs Belk their accomplishments in the community and academics. 2014 Tennessee 7-6 SEC East - T4th TaxSlayer Additionally, 67 student-athletes earned Vol Scholar 2015 Tennessee 9-4 SEC East - T2nd Outback designation in 2016-17 for having a 3.0 GPA. UT football has 2016 Tennessee 9-4 SEC East - T2nd Music City achieved its highest-ever GPA, single-year and multi-year APR, and Graduation Success Rate during Jones’ first four at least eight games in seven of his 10 years as a head coach, years at the helm. Over the last two seasons, 26 Vols have including five seasons of nine-plus wins (2009, 2011, 2012, played in bowl games as college graduates. 2015, 2016). Jones has won 10 or more games twice, finishing A two-time BIG EAST Coach of the Year, Jones took 11-2 at CMU in 2009 and posting a 10-3 record with Cincinnati over a program that hadn’t won a bowl game since 2007. in 2011. He has led teams to four conference championships Jones’ Vols have won three consecutive bowl games for the in his 10 seasons as a head coach, including the Big East title first time in over 20 years (1994-95-96) and have brought in 2011 and 2012 with Cincinnati and the 2007 and 2009 Mid- back-to-back nine-win seasons to Rocky Top for the first time American Conference titles at Central Michigan. in nearly a decade. Entering the 2017 season, the Vols own In 2016, the Vols finished in the Top 25 (CFP No. 21, AP No. a 15-4 mark in their last 19 games, which is the second-best 22, Coaches No. 24) for the second straight season. Led by mark in the SEC. Dobbs at quarterback, the Vols put together the most prolific Jones joined UT from the University of Cincinnati, where offense in Big Orange history. Jones’ explosive offense set he finished with a 23-14 record (.657) in three seasons with a new school record for points scored (473), while piling up the Bearcats. Jones was also the head coach for three years 5,768 yards of total offense – the second-most in Tennessee at Central Michigan (27-13, .675, from 2007-09). He has won history. UT had the SEC’s second-best scoring offense at 36.3 16 TENNESSEE FOOTBALL 2017 MEDIA GUIDE GENERAL points per game. Barnett totaled an SEC-best 13.0 sacks en route to consensus All-America accolades and broke Reggie White’s career sack record with 33.0. Barnett, Dobbs and kick returner Evan Berry collected All-SEC honors. UT’s 2016 season featured a pair of thrilling comeback wins over conference foes Florida and Georgia as well as a 45-24 victory over Virginia Tech in front of an NCAA football STAFF attendance record 156,990 fans at the inaugural Battle of Bristol held at Bristol Motor Speedway on Sept. 10. The three victories were part of UT’s first 5-0 start since 1998 and included consecutive victories over ranked teams for PLAYERS the first time since 1999. The Vols had 17 different starters miss a game due to injury and lost five defensive players to season-ending injuries. UT finished with a 6-1 record at home, the best record by the Vols since 2007. Tennessee capped the season by defeating Nebraska in the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl – the third straight bowl win for REVIEW the Vols. Jones’ fourth Tennessee team found additional success following the season when six Vols were selected in the 2017 NFL Draft in the spring. At No. 14, Barnett became the highest drafted Vol since Eric Berry (No. 5) in 2010 and UT had its HISTORY most players drafted in the first four rounds since 2002 as all six Vols were selected before the start of the fifth round. In addition to Barnett, who became the UT’s 46th first-round pick all-time, Alvin Kamara (third round, No. 67, New Orleans Saints), Cameron Sutton (third round, No. 94, Pittsburgh Steelers), Jalen Reeves-Maybin (fourth round, No. 124, HONORS Detroit Lions), Josh Malone (fourth round, No. 128, Cincinnati Bengals) and Dobbs, (fourth round, No. 135, Steelers) were all selected in the draft. Jones led the Vols to a 9-4 record in 2015, marking Tennessee’s best season since 2007. The Vols finished the season on a six-game winning streak – the Vols’ longest VOLMANAC winning streak since 2003. Tennessee closed the 2015 season with a 45-6 victory over No. 13 Northwestern in the Outback Jones was named the 24th head football coach in Bowl. It was Tennessee’s largest margin of victory in its Tennessee history on Dec. 7, 2012, and finished with a 5-7 storied bowl history. UT finished the season ranked No. 22 in record during his first season, laying the foundation for future the final AP Poll and No. 23 in the Coaches Poll. success. In his first season on Rocky Top, the Vols defeated In 2015, Tennessee had one of the nation’s top rushing No. 11/9 South Carolina, the first win for UT over a ranked attacks. The Vols ranked 20th in the nation and second in the opponent since 2009. RECORDS SEC with 2,908 rushing yards, the second-most in Tennessee UT rushed for 2,261 yards in 2013, the most for the Vols history.