by design | Oct 6, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘Ordained from on high?’ By Tom Mattingly Here’s a question for Vol fans to consider when incessant worrying about the next game on the schedule gets out of hand. It’s hardly a life or death consideration, but it’s a legitimate one regardless. With a...
by design | Sep 29, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
The ‘people’ and ‘events’ of Tennessee football By Tom Mattingly There are memories of a number of great moments scattered across the expanse of Shields-Watkins Field. I’ve seen most all of them from my vantage point in Section OO, 53 years and...
by design | Sep 22, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
A collision heard across the Gator Bowl By Tom Mattingly Whether they were alive in December 1966 and/or maybe attended the game, they instinctively know about the Gator Bowl that season from videotape, newspaper reports, and word of mouth in discussions that take...
by design | Sep 15, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
The Last Saturday in September By Tom Mattingly Sept. 27, 1980 was a day Auburn fans would just as soon forget. It was— amazingly— nearly 45 years ago. How is that possible? Tennessee fans, those who were there and those who listened carefully to John Ward and Bill...
by design | Sep 8, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
The first 11-win season since 1970 By Tom Mattingly The 1989 Tennessee football season finished 11-1, capped by a 31-27 win over Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl. That was quite a treat for Vol fans, given that the Vols had compiled a 5-6 record the year before. That...
by design | Sep 2, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘I’m going with the best’ By Tom Mattingly Years after he called his last Tennessee Volunteers football game, Tennessee 41, Vanderbilt 14, on Dec. 2, 1967, George Mooney still remembered the good times. Mooney (Jan. 6, 1920-Oct. 13, 2011) was the lead announcer on the...
