document_title: List of Future Diary episodes

question_text: how many episodes are in the future diary

text: List of Future Diary episodes

text: Future Diary (未来日記, Mirai Nikki) is a 2011 anime based on the manga by Sakae Esuno. The anime depicts the Diary Game, a deadly battle royale between twelve different individuals who are given "Future Diaries", special diaries that can predict the future, by Deus Ex Machina, the God of Time and Space, with the last survivor becoming his heir. The plot follows Yukiteru "Yuki" Amano, a socially awkward boy and one of the game's contestants who only wants to survive; Yuno Gasai, another one of the game's contestants and a friend, who would do anything to be with Yuki; Minene Uryu, another contestant who is an infamous spy with a grudge against God; and Aru Akise, a genius teen detective and a friend of Yuki who investigates the true purpose of the game and Yuno's dark secrets.

text: The anime is produced by Studio Asread, directed by Naoto Hosoda, the script is written by Katsuhiko Takayama, character designs are by Hidetsugu Hirayama and art direction is by Toshiyuki Tokuda. The anime aired from October 10, 2011 to April 16, 2012 on Chiba TV and TV Saitama.[1] The series is licensed by Funimation in North America and Kaze UK in the United Kingdom. An original video animation (OVA) based on the spin-off manga, Mirai Nikki Redial, was streamed on Niconico on June 19, 2013 and will be released on DVD with the manga volume in July 2013. The first opening and ending theme songs are "Kūsō Mesorogī" (空想メソロギヰ, "Fantasy Mythology") by Yousei Teikoku and "Blood-teller" by Faylan, respectively, which aired from episode 1 to 14. From episode 15, the second opening and ending theme songs are "Dead End" by Faylan and "Filament" by Yousei Teikoku, respectively. For the ninth volume of the BD/DVD release and the Redial OVA, the opening theme is "Kyouki Chinden" (狂気沈殿, Madness Precipitation) by Teikoku whilst the ending theme is "Happy End" by Faylan.

text: All episode titles are terms related to modern cellphones and telephone business in general, reflecting the fact that most Future Diaries are based on their users' mobile phones. At the end of every episode, Murmur is featured in a segment of backstories with the various characters who appear in the anime series.

text: Episode list[edit]

text:
No.
Title
Original airdate

01
"Sign Up"
"Sain Appu" (サインアップ)
October 10, 2011[2]

Yukiteru "Yuki" Amano is a loner who spends his time writing in his cellphone diary, playing darts and talking to an imaginary friend, Deus Ex Machina, the God of Time and Space. One morning, he finds his diary entry for the day has been filled in already. Stranger yet, the events recounted in the diary start coming true. Yuki is then startled upon learning that Deus is an actual deity, who reveals that his diary can now predict his future, but also warns him that he will die if his diary is destroyed. As Yuki starts using the diary to his advantage, he is approached and stalked by model student Yuno Gasai, who possesses the Second Future Diary, which foretold his death at the hands of his homeroom teacher Takao Hiyama, secretly a serial killer who owns the Third Future Diary. As Yuno helps Yuki evade Takao, Yuki is able to hit Takao's cellphone with a dart, causing Takao to vanish into a vortex. Afterwards, Deus summons a congress and explains the rules of the survival game to all of the remaining eleven Future Diary Holders, including Yuki and Yuno, in which they all must try to kill each other in order to win the right to succeed him.
Deus's assistant, Murmur, introduces Takao to the survival game. However, when Murmur tries to give Takao a cellphone diary, he keeps destroying it, causing him to repeatedly vanish into a vortex.

02
"Contract Terms"
"Keiyaku Jōken" (契約条件)
October 17, 2011[2][2]

Minene Uryū, a student terrorist and the Ninth Future Diary Holder, holds the school hostage, having rigged its corridors with motion sensor bombs. As Yuki combines his ability to predict everything happening around him with Yuno's ability to predict everything happening to Yuki himself, the two manage to evade danger, until Minene threatens to detonate all the bombs unless Yuki is handed over to her. Yuki is captured by his classmates, angering Yuno, who runs down the corridors and causes several classrooms to explode on purpose. Yuki and Minene are soon confronted by police officer Keigo Kurusu, the Fourth Future Diary Holder who is able to predict crimes. Keigo, who is Minene's true target, reveals he is not interested in the survival game and just wants to stop criminals. Yuno, Keigo and all the classmates work together to distract Minene, allowing Yuki to throw a dart at her Future Diary cellphone. However, Minene dodges it, injuring her left eye and uses her ability to escape. In the aftermath, Keigo forms an alliance with Yuki and Yuno to stop the other Future Diary Holders.
Murmur introduces herself while flowing down a river. She reviews that Keigo and Minene both found out about Yuki, since they both were after Takao, who Yuki killed already. Murmur says goodbye while drifting off a waterfall.

03
"Initial Failure"
"Shoki Furyō" (初期不良)
October 24, 2011

Keigo sends Yuki and Yuno to an amusement park to act as bait for Minene. When Yuki asks Yuno why she keeps following him around all day, she reminds him of when they first met one year earlier. Yuki was depressed over his parents' divorce and, to cheer him up, Yuno offered to marry him in the future. Yuki agreed, thinking it was a joke. Although Yuki realizes Yuno is still hiding something from him, she refuses to divulge anything more. That night, Yuno invites Yuki to stop by her house. While searching for the bathroom, he opens a bizarre door to a room containing three decomposed corpses, an act which changes the future of every Future Diary Holder drastically and causes a causality continuum breakdown, much to Deus's excitement. Terrified, Yuki runs home, only to find Yuno right outside his door. Meanwhile, Minene finds evading the police difficult, despite her ability to secure escape routes. Exhausted and cornered, she is approached by a mysterious man, who offers to save her and takes her to a hut in the woods. There, he reveals himself as a Future Diary Holder, drugging and torturing her to get information on other Future Diary Holders.
Murmur, who wants to be more popular, asks for Yuki's advice, and he tells her that being a good cook might help. She prepares corn in different ways, them being boiled, roasted, streamed, fried and dried. Yuki says that being kind by making a midnight snack would be a better idea. Later, Deus appears surprised by a random dish of food that appears next to his throne.

04
"Hand-Written"
"Tegaki Nyūryoku" (手書き入力)
October 31, 2011

Yuki is unable to tell anyone about the corpses he saw in Yuno's house, fearing Yuno will find out through her diary. The next day, Yuki, Yuno and Keigo visit the Omekata cult, where Minene is being held prisoner underground. The cult's leader, Tsubaki Kasugano, who is the holder of the Sixth Future Diary with the ability to view from a scroll what is seen by her followers, foretells her own death by the end of the day. Since Yuki has already evaded death twice, Tsubaki asks for him to stay with her for the night in exchange for handing over Minene, which he accepts, much to Yuno's resentment. At night, Tsubaki's followers fall under the mind control of the Twelfth Future Diary Holder, Yomotsu Hirasaka, a blind and insane man bearing a large one-eyed mask who captured Minene, and close in on Yuki, Yuno and Tsubaki. Yuno starts hacking at the followers with an axe and poses an ultimatum to Yuki, that is to either join her or die.
Murmur appears inside Tsubaki's room, as if it were her own. Although Tsubaki's vision is poor, she is aware of this. Murmur then introduces Tsubaki to the survival game.

05
"Voice Message"
"Boisu Memo" (ボイスメモ)
November 7, 2011

In a flashback, Tsubaki became the priestess of the Omekata cult after her parents fooled people of her clairvoyance, but she was raped by the male followers after her parents died in a car accident and lost a ball that once belonged to her mother that helped maintained her sanity, wanting the world to end for her suffering. In the present, as Yuki, Yuno and Tsubaki flee, they are halted by Yomotsu with four hypnotized cult members dressed like him, who explain that he used the diary from his tape recorder to find Tsubaki, intending to kill her using an explosive device inside of him. Since Yomotsu is blind, Yuno manages to tell him apart from the others and kill him. After Tsubaki reveals to Yuki and Yuno that her plan all along was to kill them, Yuno manages to cut off Tsubaki's right hand and give Yuki her cellphone before collapsing from exhaustion and being captured. Yuki manages to avoid detection using both diaries, but Tsubaki lures him out by announcing Yuno will be raped and killed by her followers. He manages to reach Yuno in time, but Tsubaki gloats that her scroll will predict his every action as long as he is in sight of her followers. Yuki throws Tsubaki's ball he found earlier up in the air, causing all of her followers to look at it. As her diary is rendered useless, Yuki then throws a dart at her scroll and pierces it, causing her to vanish and allowing Yuki and Yuno escape. Meanwhile, Minene, who was released by Yomotsu, later gets captured by Keigo, who eventually lets her go in return for her contact information.
Murmur introduces Yomotsu to the survival game, after he is thought of as a criminal rather than a vigilante. She gives him a tape recorder that predicts future evil deeds to allow him to carry out his justice.

06
"Silent Mode"
"Manā Mōdo" (マナーモード)
November 14, 2011

Knowing from her diary that Yuki's mother, Rea Amano, is coming home from work abroad as a video game programmer, Yuno breaks into his house with the intention of introducing herself to Rea. Despite Yuki's efforts, Rea and Yuno meet and take a liking to each other, sharing a good dinner and viewing Yuki's baby pictures, much to his embarrassment. Elsewhere, Minene gets her eye checked and catches sight of a few little kids, especially one in particular. That night, Yuno reveals to Yuki that her diary predicts they will "become one" on July 28th, and tells him she will do anything to make sure that future comes to pass. The next day, Rea brings home Reisuke Houjou, a young boy whose parents were killed at the Omekata cult incident. Despite his young age and precocious demeanor, Reisuke is a Future Diary Holder, plotting Yuno's death to avenge his parents.
Murmur, impersonating Yuno, gathers ingredients for a dish from various areas of the world to cook for Rea. When Rea tastes the dish, she is sent to the hospital for food poisoning. When Yuki later inhales the fumes from Murmur's second attempt at cooking, he is also sent to the hospital.

07
"Answering Machine"
"Rusu Ōtō" (留守応答)
November 21, 2011

Reisuke, the Fifth Future Diary Holder who owns a coloring book to predict morning, noon and night, makes several attempts to kill Yuki and Yuno, but the two of them thwart his attempts, soon realizing who he is. Yuki searches vigorously for Reisuke's diary in vain, while Yuno insists killing him would be faster. Yuno gives up and starts chasing Reisuke around the house with a hammer and accidentally hits Rea in the head and knocks her out. Yuno figures out that Reisuke has mailed his diary to himself in order to hide it and has Yuki intercept the delivery, but he falls prey to a nerve gas trap hidden in the envelope. Reisuke challenges Yuno to a hide-and-seek game inside the house filled with nerve gas, promising the antidote if she manages to capture him. Although Yuno evades numerous traps set by Reisuke, she eventually finds herself at his mercy. However, Yuki intervenes, injuring Reisuke with a dart and giving Yuno the resolve and opportunity to finish him off. Yuki and Yuno collapse before managing to use the antidote, but Minene, who has been informed about the situation from Keigo, appears and saves them. As she walks away, she claims that to herself that Yuki must kill Yuno as soon as possible before Yuno becomes his worst enemy.
Murmur introduces Reisuke to the survival game in a playground. Reisuke agrees to be a contestant, but first needs to be convinced that she is an alien and owns a flying saucer.

08
"New Model"
"Shin Kishu" (新機種)
November 28, 2011

Karyuudo Tsukishima, the Tenth Future Diary Holder, requests to transfer his diary's ownership when Deus calls a meeting for the eight surviving Future Diary Holders. Two weeks after Reisuke's disappearance, Yuki and Yuno transfer to a new school, while a series of brutal murders has been terrorizing the area. After school, Yuki and Yuno sneak in one of the crime scenes with Yuki's classmates Ouji Kosaka, Hinata Hino and Mao Nonosaka. When Hinata wanders off, Yuki's diary predicts her being attacked. Yuki rushes everyone to the scene, where they find Hinata's body before a pack of vicious dogs. A strange boy named Aru Akise appears and leads everyone to a nearby observation tower. Aru explains that he is one of Yuki's classmates and that he has been investigating the strange events in which Yuki keeps getting involved. Despite Yuno's mistrust in everyone, Yuki decides to reveal the existence of his diary in order to defend the group against the dogs. After the dogs suddenly retreat, Mao takes Yuki's diary at knifepoint and hands it to Hinata, who is alive and well. After it is learned that Hinata is a Future Diary Holder, she reveals that her real target is Aru, suspecting him as a Future Diary Holder.
Aru accidentally injures Murmur while riding his bike without a seat through a tunnel, so he takes her to an amusement park to make it up to her. Aru figures out that Murmur did this on purpose, but still has no idea how his seat got stolen in the first place.

09
"Blocking Calls"
"Chakushin Kyohi" (着信拒否)
December 5, 2011

A week ago, Hinata received her diary, with the ability to control dogs on her command, from her dog breeder father Karyuudo, who wanted her to eliminate Aru. In the present, when Hinata demands Aru's diary, he challenges her to guess which hand he is hiding a coin in, with his diary as the forfeit. Despite using Yuki's diary, Hinata loses and has to release Yuki. However, Yuno realizes that Aru is not a Future Diary Holder, relying on bluff and observation instead. Unfazed, Aru proposes one more round of his game, with Yuki's diary on the line. By intending to tell Yuki that he lost, no matter what the outcome, Aru manages to neutralize Yuki's diary, since its predictions are based on Yuki's perception. With the game thus reduced to a fifty-fifty gamble, Aru manages to guess correctly. Mao attempts to destroy Yuki's diary, but Yuno injures her. Yuki, Yuno, Aru and Kosaka leave the park, while Hinata uses her diary to send the dog pack after them. Yuki decides to return to Hinata and try to reason with her, but Yuno reaches her first and threatens to kill her, as well as anyone who attempts to come between her and Yuki. To pacify Yuno, Yuki is forced to declare her as his girlfriend. Karyuudo communicates with everyone via radio, explaining that he mistook Aru as a Future Diary Holder, and after he warns Yuki about Keigo, a gunshot is heard through the radio.
Murmur poses as one of Karyuudo's dog, but she gets caught during roll call. She then introduces Karyuudo to the survival game while still wearing a dog costume.

10
"Family Plan"
"Kazoku Puran" (家族プラン)
December 12, 2011

While making bombs for Keigo, Minene remembers the time she was captured by a detective named Masumi Nishijima while confronting Takao. Although they developed a rapport as they evaded and defeated the killer, Minene ended up knocking Nishijima out to escape. Aru sets up Yuki and Yuno on a date to a bridal fair for a mock wedding, where they meet Keigo's wife, Naoko Kurusu, while he investigates Yuno's house. When Yuki and Yuno return, they find Aru at the door of the room with the corpses. However, the wall has been demolished and the corpses buried in a deep hole in Yuno's garden. Even though this is Yuno's doing, she has no recollection of the event, nor of Yuki visiting her house before. Aru theorizes that Yuno's mental balance is so fragile that she modified her own memories as a defense mechanism. Meanwhile, Keigo frames Yuki and Yuno as suspects for his murder of Karyuudo.
Murmur has Minene try on different hairstyles, but Minene is annoyed at the terrible suggestions and chases her around the battle royal arena.

11
"Service Terminated"
"Sābisu Shūryō" (サービス終了)
December 19, 2011

Six days ago, Keigo forms an alliance with Minene, promising to stop pursuing her and asking her to take care of his terminally ill son, You Kurusu, if he is eliminated from the survival game. In the present, Yuki and Yuno get arrested by Nishijima and brought to Keigo. In the interrogation room, Keigo forces Yuki to play a rigged game of Russian roulette with his service revolver. Alerted to Keigo's treachery by her diary, Yuno knocks out the detectives guarding her and steals their guns. Just before Yuki gets shot, Yuno breaks into the room, injures Keigo and leaves with Yuki. Panicking, Yuki shoots at one of the policemen pursuing them. Since both Yuki and Yuno have now committed a crime, their actions can be detected by Keigo's diary, which was his plan all along. Trapped on the police station's roof, Yuki and Yuno jump off, but a truck's tarp breaks their fall. The next day, Yuki and Yuno are hiding from the police when they notice Naoko visiting a hospital. When they follow her, they get ambushed by Minene, who blows up part of the floor. After Yuki accidentally causes more of the floor to collapse, Minene allies with Yuki in order to have Yuno pull them both to safety, incurring Keigo's wrath in the process. With their deaths foretold in all three diaries, Minene takes Yuki and Yuno to the room where Keigo's dying son and wife are.
Murmur, disguised as Keigo, talks to Nishijima and recommends that katsudon is a dish that would be great to eat while working on a criminal case, doing a role-playing interrogation to prove that fact.

12
"No Service Area"
"Jushin Kengai" (受信圏外)
December 26, 2011

With the police surrounding the hospital, Minene takes Naoko and You hostage and tries to bargain with Keigo, but Keigo refuses to negotiate and seeks to win the survival game by himself. Yuki gets captured by the police inside the hospital, but Yuno appears holding a stun grenade when Keigo tries to apprehend him. She detonates the stun grenade, knocking all three of them unconscious. Meanwhile, after setting a timed bomb which went off shortly after the flash grenade detonated, Minene tries to escape the hospital, only to run into Nishijima. After Minene explains to Nishijima about the deal she and Keigo made and how he framed Yuki and Yuno, the two rush back into the hospital. Yuki regains consciousness and tries to shoot at Keigo, but he uses Yuno as a shield. Despite his diary predicting he will kill Yuno if he shoots, Yuki refuses to give up, proclaiming his love for her. The future somehow changes and Yuki gets a clean shot at Keigo. Minene arrives with Nishijima, who places Keigo under arrest. Since he is now the criminal, and no longer a detective, his diary stops predicting the future. After learning his family has been rescued, Keigo asks Minene to take care of his son, apologizes to Yuki and breaks his own diary, removing himself from existence. Yuki and Yuno are exonerated, thanks to files Keigo left behind, while Minene escapes yet again. A few days later, Aru sends Yuki a text message warning him about Yuno, but she intercepts and deletes it.
Murmur meets Keigo in a restaurant to introduce him to the survival game, but Keigo goes on about how he became a cop after being punished by his father for stealing an action figure from a store.

13
"Number Withheld"
"Hitsūchi Settei" (非通知設定)
January 9, 2012

When Deus realizes that Murmur manipulated events to hasten Keigo's elimination, she claims she wants the game concluded before he has to retire and challenges him to a wager on the winner of the survival game, with her picking Yuno and Deus betting on Yuki. Meanwhile, Yuki and Yuno go on a stargazing trip, but Yuno alters their destination along the way. Worried about Yuki's safety, Aru contacts Nishijima and they manage to narrow Yuki and Yuno's location down to a run-down holiday resort, enlisting Hinata, Mao and Kosaka to search for them. As they split up and search the abandoned hotels, Aru and Kosaka face various traps set by Yuno, while Hinata is tricked by a text message Yuno sent from Yuki's phone. When the others attempt to find Hinata, they get locked in a room which starts to fill up with gas. At the end of the episode, a dazed Yuki is shown bound to a chair, with an ecstatic Yuno sitting between two skulls in her underwear as she begins to feed him.
In the bathhouse, Hinata finds Murmur in a basket, declining a wish that she offers. However, when Mao later finds Murmur, she wishes for a waterproof cellphone, though for unknown reasons.

14
"Memory Erased"
"Memorī Shōkyo" (メモリー消去)
January 16, 2012

Aru talks to Yuno through her surveillance feed, revealing he dug up three corpses from her garden, two of which had recently had their skulls removed. When he threatens to give this information to the police unless she releases them, the stress causes Yuno to alter her memory again, rendering negotiations moot. As Kosaka uses his cellphone to post his will in his blog, it is apparently turned into a Future Diary by the Eighth Future Diary Holder, who addresses him as an "apprentice". Advised by Aru, Kosaka acts out his diary's predictions to crawl through a ceiling vent, reaching an amnesiac Yuno, a catatonic Yuki and a bound Hinata in the control room. His appearance causes Yuki to recover, recalling how Yuno abducted him to keep him safe until July 28th. Yuno places the key to Yuki's shackles on the floor and tosses Kosaka the control panel key, allowing him to free Aru and Mao. Yuno then takes advantage of Kosaka's distraction and shoots at him with a crossbow. However, Yuki, having had his key kicked over to him by Hinata, frees himself and stops Yuno, leaving her behind when his diary predicts the imminent arrival of three Future Diary Holders, all apprentices of the Eighth Future Diary Holder.
After Murmur is awoken by Kosaka when she is seen floating in the pool, Murmur offers to grant him a cellphone that predicts the future, that is after Kosaka swan dives from the battle royal arena in the sky above into the pool below.

15
"Double Holder"
"Daburu Horudā" (ダブルホルダー)
January 23, 2012

Deus informs Yuki that the Eighth Future Diary Holder has the ability to host and send predictions to the blogs of her apprentices via a server. When Yuki's diary predicts an attack by the three apprentices, Aru has him moved to Kosaka's mansion. His plan is to lure the apprentices in, then deactivate the area's cellphone tower, severing their connection to the server of the Eighth Future Diary Holder. Once the attack begins, however, Yuno appears and cuts the power to the tower remote control, wanting to defend Yuki by herself. Aru and Kosaka rush to deactivate the tower manually, while Yuki keeps Yuno in restraints. Two of the apprentices, Marco Ikusaba and Ai Mikami, manage to corner Yuki and Yuno by the time Aru deactivates the tower. However, Marco and Ai showcase their bona fide diaries, which have remained unaffected, revealing that they are both the Seventh Future Diary Holder. With no other choice, Yuki releases Yuno, who intimidates the couple into retreating. However, when the third apprentice, Tarou "Taa-kun" Nanba, sets the mansion on fire, Marco and Ai counterattack. Their ability to predict each other's actions manages to overwhelm Yuno, resulting in her and Yuki getting injured and their diaries taken away. As Yuki and his friends are brooding in the hospital, they are approached by Minene, who poses as a nurse.
After introducing Kamado Ueshita to the survival game, Murmur attempts use a rope to trip Kamado, who is carrying tea. However, Kamado flips over and lands safely onto the ground.

16
"Repair"
"Shūri" (修理)
January 30, 2012

Aru deduces that Marco and Ai have not destroyed Yuki and Yuno's diaries because they want to take advantage of the information they provide. In order to confuse them, he has Minene feed Yuki false information. Yuki's divorced father Kurou Amano visits him in the hospital, but while Yuki's away, he searches the room for his cellphone. Yuno overhears that he has promised to destroy it in return for the cancellation of his substantial debt and realizes he is being used by the Eleventh Future Diary Holder. Marco, who has learned all about the situation from Yuki's diary, considers Kurou as a useful link to Minene and the Eleventh Future Diary Holder and calls Yuno, demanding that they bring Kurou to an abandoned commercial tower. Once they arrive, Marco places Yuki and Yuno's cellphones on a table and attacks Kurou. As Yuki futilely fights Marco, his father goes over to the table and breaks his phone, yet nothing happens. Realizing that the phones were decoys, Yuno attacks Ai and successfully retrieves both diaries. Just then, Tarou sets off explosives, collapsing the floor under Yuki, and both Kurou and Yuno reach out to grab him. Meanwhile, Nishijima has uncovered the identity of Eighth Future Diary Holder as a children's caretaker named Kamado Ueshita, and goes to search her orphanage.
Murmur, dressed as a nurse, helps Kurou cope with his deep feeling of being lost, bringing him outside of the hospital. She tells him how to be a free spirit, looking at the world at an existential point-of-view.

17
"Family Discount"
"Kazoku Wari" (家族割り)
February 6, 2012

In a flashback, Marco and Ai are abandoned children who meet in the commercial tower, grow up in Kamado's orphanage and eventually fall in love. Yuki chooses to take Yuno's hand, while Marco and Ai run to the crumbling tower's roof with Yuki's father, intending to jump off with parachutes. Yuno catches up to them and once again tries to fight them alone, while Yuki hides and attempts to help her with his diary's predictions. Yuno loses and has her phone taken away, but it turns out to be Marco and Ai's decoy, which distracts them with false predictions. As a result, Yuno manages to critically injure Ai. Kurou grabs one of the two parachutes and escapes the tower, but he runs into his ex-wife Rea, who has been informed of the situation by Nishijima. When she threatens to turn him in, he stabs her. Yuki, Yuno and a dying Ai are trapped in the wreckage, but Marco attempts to free Ai despite having been mortally wounded himself. With Yuki and Yuno's help, the debris is cleared out and Marco and Ai die together as the tower collapses. Meanwhile, Nishijima has been unable to find Kamado's Future Diary server. Yuki and Yuno escape using the second parachute, only to find Rea has died.
After Marco takes a shower, he finds Murmur in his bed. Ai is maddened when she arrives, assuming he is cheating. However, Murmur pleases them by giving them cellphone diaries that would log each other's future actions.

18
"Crossed Lines"
"Konsen" (混線)
February 13, 2012

A year ago, Yuki was paired with Moe Wakaba, a classmate of his, to purchase supplies for an upcoming school festival, preparing to give her a love letter at the right moment. In the mall, Yuno, disguised in a bunny suit, made several attempt to prevent Yuki from doing so, since she was secretly in love with Yuki, but she is stopped by the security guards. When she returned home, Yuno was revealed to have murdered her parents Saika Gasai and Ushio Gasai, a pair of bankers who were revealed to abuse her when she failed to meet their standards. In the present, after Yuki asks Deus to bring his mother back to life, Deus reveals that he is dying and his powers have faded, explaining that all of existence will collapse unless a successor is determined soon. When Kurou comes home injured, Yuki demands him to turn himself in for killing Rea, although there is no actual evidence to comply. The next day, Yuki trails Kurou from a pawn shop to a local shrine hoping for evidence, but it turns out that Kurou wanted to visit the site where his family was going to go stargazing before he turned himself in. While reconciling with Yuki, Kurou is suddenly stabbed in the chest with a knife. Yuki is then ambushed by agents of the Eleventh Future Diary Holder, yet he manages to fight back and kill the agents. After Yuno arrives to help him, Yuki declares that he is now determined to win the survival game in order to attain the power to resurrect his parents. When he tells Yuno this means he has to kill her, she calmly replies that she is ready to die for him at any time.
While wearing bunny suits, Murmur chases Yuno in the mall, but Yuno escapes in an elevator while Murmur is apprehended by a security guard.

19
"Clear Data"
"Zenken Sakujo" (全件削除)
February 20, 2012

John Balks, the mayor of Sakurami City, convincingly passes a motion to have Kamado's orphanage shut down, and he later attends Deus's meeting, where Yuki exposes his identity as the Eleventh Future Diary Holder, after much research about him five days earlier. Minene relays this news to Nishijima, who reveals his reassignment as one of Balks's bodyguard and his discovery that Yuno was adopted. Yuno, theorizing that Balks wants to seize Kamado's server, has Yuki form an alliance with Kamado to have her apprentices ambush Balks while driving on a country road. However, Balks uses a jammer to sever connections to Kamado's server. In anticipation of this, Yuki and Yuno betray Kamado and slaughter her defenseless apprentices, prompting Kamado to flee in Balks's car while Yuki and Yuno give chase, eventually cornering them. Minene appears with Aru, who retrieves Yuno's umbilical cord from her orphanage, revealing that its DNA matches with the third corpse. This means that the real Yuno Gasai is dead and the one Yuki has known all along is actually an impostor.
Orin Miyashiro, one of Kamado's apprentices, gives Murmur a meal at the orphanage. When Orin ask if Murmur has any parents, Murmur is reminded of Deus, who she thinks has a weird personality.

20
"Transfer Data"
"Dēta Tensō" (データ転送)
February 27, 2012

Despite Aru's revelation, Yuki declares his trust in Yuno. Balks connects Kamado's server to HOLON, a supercomputer which holds user accounts of every citizen of the city, making them his apprentices. Minene tries to attack Balks, but his diary lets him turn the tables. Nishijima, who has fallen in love with Minene, comes to her aid and destroys the supercomputer. However, it turns out to be only one part of the whole, and Balks's plan is put into motion. As Aru sends Hinata, Mao and Kosaka to help Minene and Nishijima destroy the remaining parts of HOLON, Minene figures out Balks's diary can read the predictions of all other Future Diaries. Deus reveals to Minene that Balks helped him design the Future Diaries, wishing to grant divine power to the human race. Minene, Nishijima, Hinata, Mao and Kosaka storm HOLON's location, overwriting their diaries' predictions to confuse Balks. In response, Balks makes use of the diary of his secretary, Ryuji Kurosaki, and manages to capture Hinata, Mao and Kosaka, as well as injure Minene and kill Nishijima. Minene is saved by Yuki and Yuno, who have used her as bait to get to Balks.
At the amusement park with Aru again, Murmur eats one of her candies, which turns her into an adult, to allow access to certain rides. However, when she wants to go on a ride meant for children, she sees Aru already on the ride, revealing that he ate the other one of her candies, which turned him into a child.

21
"Security Code"
"Anshō Bangō" (暗証番号)
March 12, 2012

Yuki and Yuno wreak havoc, demanding that Balks release their friends and commit suicide, by using his position as mayor against him. Balks locks himself in a double-door bank vault in Gasai Bank, which can only be unlocked via retina scan by himself, Yuno's parents or the real Yuno. Since Yuki can no longer eliminate Balks for her, Minene starts hunting Yuki down, reminiscing how she lost her parents in the Middle East as a child and grew up under the constant threat of death. At the same time, Yuno frees Hinata, Mao and Kosaka and goes to kill Kamado, but she is stopped by Aru. In a tense showdown, Minene gains a clear shot at Yuki but sees her child self standing beside him, letting Yuki shoot Minene in the torso. Minene then destroys her diary voluntarily in order to detonate a bomb triggered by her death, intending to destroy the vault for Yuki, yet the vault withstands the blast. Yuno arrives to send Yuki away to destroy HOLON, and she somehow manages to open the vault and kill Balks. A few days later, Aru expresses his distrust in Yuno to Kamado, Hinata, Mao and Kosaka after he witnessed her opening the vault via retina scan despite being an impostor, while Yuki shows Yuno his list of the deceased Future Diary Holders. Suddenly, dark vortexes appear all over the city due to Deus's lifespan decaying. While Murmur is panicking over the world ending sooner than expected, Kamado appears with Aru, who asks Deus if Yuki could return the world back to normal if he was the successor.
Murmur tells Balks that the name of his diary is the most perverted compared to the rest of the other diaries. She then views various messages from people criticizing the name of his diary.

22
"Disconnect"
"Setsudan" (切断)
March 19, 2012

A shocked Aru attempts to inform Yuki of Deus's answer, but Deus stops Aru, revealing that Aru is an entity created by him to observe and record information on the survival game and its players. Deus starts disassembling Aru, promising to spare him if he proves he has done anything out of his own free will, but Aru succeeds when he reveals he had Kamado make his cellphone into an apprentice detective diary, demonstrating his will to change the future and save Yuki. Yuno asks Yuki if he has the will to kill his friends if they end up betraying him. As they arrive at Aru's apartment to kill Kamado, Yuno is held off by Aru while Yuki chases after Kamado and his friends. When he runs into Hinata, he learns Deus told Aru the divine power bestowed to the winner of the survival game can bring bodies back from the dead - but not the soul. Meanwhile, Yuno stabs herself, since Aru countered all of her attacks. After Aru patches up Yuno's wound, he rushes to the scene. Yuno calls Yuki to prevent Aru from contacting him and tells him Aru tried to kill her and that he should not trust any of his friends. Out of rage and fear, Yuki ends up shooting Hinata, Mao and Kosaka, still believing he can bring them back to life after he becomes a god. Aru finally arrives and warns Yuki that Yuno plans on killing him at the very end to win the game. When Yuno arrives, Aru kisses Yuki, enthralling Yuno. Aru and Yuno commence fighting and Aru manages to smash her cellphone, but Yuno pulls out a second cellphone and slashes at Aru's throat. As Yuno kills Kamado, a dying Aru, who knows the first diary he destroyed was real, suddenly has an epiphany about Yuno. Since he can no longer talk, he writes a message in his phone and shows it to Yuki, allowing Yuno to finish him off as Deus begins to collapse.
While Deus was making preparations for the survival game, Murmur went to the playground to play. However, she became lonely when it began to rain. Deus came to pick her up and put her to sleep before resuming his preparations.

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"Unfulfilled Contract"
"Keiyaku Furikō" (契約不履行)
March 26, 2012

Murmur proclaims herself as Deus's successor until his death and the end of the world on July 28th. Yuno reminds Yuki about her diary's prediction that they will "become one" on that day. As the days pass, Yuki eventually admits to himself that his friends were probably telling the truth, as he reminisce the events that took place in the city. Since he cannot understand why Yuno would lie to him about the possibility of resurrecting people, he decides to get the truth from her by fulfilling her diary's prediction one day earlier and makes love to her. He confronts her as to why she would lie to him, but she responds by saying she just wanted to console him and asks him to kill her. Yuki refuses and instead suggests that they die together. When he mentions Aru's message, which claimed that "this is a second universe where Yuno has already become a goddess and has gone back in time", Yuno attacks him. As he runs away, Yuki is intercepted by Murmur, who shows him visions of the past which confirms that Yuno has indeed played the survival game once before. In the "First World", Yuki's alter ego and Yuno ended up as the last contestants and both agreed to commit a double suicide from overdosing rather than having to kill the other, but Yuno faked her death, thinking she could bring Yuki back as a goddess. When she discovered in real life she could not restore souls, Yuno traveled back in time and killed her other self, taking her place in this "Second World". Distraught at this, Yuki breaks out of the visions and confronts the First World Yuno.
Yuno comes to Murmur for advice on how to impress Yuki. Murmur has Yuno dress up like a geisha and then a dominatrix, both of which scares Yuki away. When Murmur realizes that Yuki is a cat lover, she has Yuno dress up in a cat suit, which does not impress Yuki at all.

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"Searching"
"Kensakuchū" (検索中)
April 2, 2012

As the Cathedral of Causality raises, Yuno expresses her disgust at how this state of affairs prevents her and Yuki from ever surviving together. She states that since Yuki will not kill her, she will kill him and travel back in time again to meet another Yuki. Murmur shoves Yuki off a cliff, but he is saved by the sudden reappearance of Minene, who displays powers similar to that of Murmur. As Murmur and Yuno travel two years back in time to a "Third World", Minene and Yuki follow them. Minene explains to Yuki that when Deus realized Murmur was favoring Yuno, he suspected them of being from another timeline. In order to ensure the fair running of the game, he imparted Minene with part of his power, although she did not know so at the time. Knowing that Yuno intends to kill her past self in this world as well, Yuki rushes to her house with Minene. When Yuki finds Third World Yuno abused and locked in a cage, choking on a mat she tried to eat, he calls for an ambulance, despite Minene's warnings about interfering with the past. As Yuno and Murmur arrive with Third World Rea and Kurou hostage, Minene and Yuki flee with Third World Yuno in tow, while Minene lectures Yuki that the parents in the Third World are not his.
Murmur hosts a counseling hotline and constantly receives a call from a housewife with a neglectful husband and a disobedient adopted daughter, but Murmur gives her a series of unhelpful tips. The housewife is actually Saika, who was referring to her husband Ushio and adopted daughter Yuno.

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"Reset"
"Risetto" (リセット)
April 9, 2012

An ambulance arrives at Yuno's house together with Third World Ushio. Although he is a much more caring man in this world, Yuno has to stab him when he starts getting suspicious of her. Minene drops off Yuki and Third World Yuno at the school and makes a phone call to the Third World Keigo, forewarning him about his son's illness. Yuki evades Yuno and Murmur's attacks, trying to convince Yuno to return to the Second World and rule as its goddess. However, Yuno, torn between her feelings for Yuki and the inevitability of the Second World's destruction unless one of them dies, decides to trap him in an illusionary "ideal" world where his parents are alive and she has never existed. Minene returns and fights Murmur, but she is overwhelmed once Yuno releases a seal on Murmur's powers. In the illusionary world, Yuki soon realizes he fell in love with Yuno because she was his life supporter. Keigo and Nishijima head for the explosion scene. With Minene beaten, Yuno approaches her other self.
Murmur overhears Ushio being shocked to see that Yuno has grown up somehow since the last time he saw her. Murmur then keeps trying to make Yuno height-weight proportionate, ending up shrinking her, turning her into a baby and reducing her bust size.

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"Format"
"Shokika" (初期化)
April 16, 2012

After some hesitation at seeing the innocence of her Third World self, Yuno lunges at her, but she is stopped by her Third World parents. As the police arrived, Keigo confronts Yuno, and Nishijima rescues Minene. Meanwhile, the actions of Yuki and Minene have caused a domino effect that changed the future of almost every Future Diary Holder for the better: Tsubaki learns Funatsu, her cult subordinate, was caught placing a bomb in her parents' car, preventing Tsubaki from having a horrible life, including Reisuke. Yomotsu captures Takao; saving victims Takao would have killed. Hinata and Karyuudo fix their broken relationship. Kamado receives more funding for her orphanage, while Marco and Ai hears good news from Orin. When Balks's incomplete diary reads the results in Yuki's diary, he calls off his partnership with Deus, who decides to cancel the survival game and find another method to determine his successor. Yuki manages to remember Yuno and break free from the illusionary world, while releasing the Second World Murmur, who had been trapped by her First World self in order to impersonate her. Faced with Yuki's love and her Third World self's united family, Yuno's resolve to kill them all is lost, and she decides to commit suicide. A horrified Yuki is declared winner of the survival game by the Second World Murmur and is spirited away through a vortex. In the Third World, all Future Diary Holders are enjoying their new and peaceful lives, the Second World Minene is married to Nishijima and has two children. Ai is pregnant with her and Marco's baby. Yuno's relationship with her parents improves and she gets many friends, though feels she is forgetting something. As 10,000 years pass in the Second World, Yuki is still grieving Yuno's death in his now empty universe, refusing to create anything as its god. Murmur tried tirelessly to comfort him, but to no avail, since he just keeps staring at the last entry of his phone. However, the last entry changes and indicates that Yuno is somehow still alive.
In the post-credits scene, Yuki (and Yuno) is starting to create his own universe. Meanwhile, Murmur wants to start a new survival game, coming up with archetypes for new cellphone diaries, but more versions of herself appear around her.

OVA
"Data Migration"
"Dēta Ikō" (データ移行)
June 19, 2013

The episode opens Yuki being crowned winner of the survival game and sent back to the Second World. The First World Murmur tries to preserve the game by storing all the memories of First World Yuno into a gem and consuming but is caught and imprisoned by the Third World Murmur. Third World Yuno, her parents and Keigo watch in bewilderment. Two years after the incident, Yuno has gained a better relationship with her family and is on a summer trip with her friends, whilst Deus is contemplating how to decide a new god. In the Cathedral of Causality, Deus tries to convince Minene to become the next goddess, fearing the Third World will become like the First World, but she declines. Balks still contacts Deus repeatedly, much to his disdain as he keeps suggesting new game ideas, but is usually sent back before getting to finish. Aru continues to observer for Deus and does so without rebellion. Running out of options, Deus contemplates letting the world just end, despite Murmur's protests. The other previous Future Diary Holders lead normal lives. Yuno has become friends with Hinata, Mao and Kosaka. Yomotsu runs a gift shop dedicated to his secret alter ego. Tsubaki tries to get close to Aru, with Reisuke as his detective-in-training. However, Yuno feels like she is forgetting something important. On the night of July 27th, Yuno hears a voice in her head and is teleported into Deus's realm with a desire to meet someone. With assistance from Minene, and later Aru who retained memories of his Second World self and lack of interference from Deus, Yuno makes it to a central tower and finds First World Murmur, who had taken on the memories of the First World Yuno before her capture and feels that Yuno deserves to know what she cannot remember. Deus states that the bond between Yuki and Yuno is strong enough to continue in all three separate worlds. As Yuno gains the memories of her other self, she is chosen as the goddess of the Third World, creating a pathway to the Second World and finally reuniting with Yuki. Yuno enters at the point where Yuki's future in his phone changes. Minene, Deus and all three Murmurs watch as the two embrace, with Yuno bringing up Yuki's promise to stargaze with her.


document_title: Being Mary Jane

question_text: who plays the brother on being mary jane

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text: Being Mary Jane

text: Series overview[edit]

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Season
Episodes
Originally aired

First aired
Last aired

1
9
July 2, 2013 (2013-07-02)
February 25, 2014 (2014-02-25)

2
12
February 3, 2015 (2015-02-03)
April 14, 2015 (2015-04-14)

3
10
October 20, 2015 (2015-10-20)
December 15, 2015 (2015-12-15)

4
20
10
January 10, 2017 (2017-01-10)
March 21, 2017 (2017-03-21)

10
July 18, 2017 (2017-07-18)
September 19, 2017 (2017-09-19)

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text: Cast and characters[edit]

text: Regular cast[edit]

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Gabrielle Union as Pauletta ("Mary Jane Paul") Patterson: a successful TV news anchor for Satellite News Channel (SNC) who remains devoted to a family that doesn't share her motivation as she juggles her life, her relationships, her work, and commitments.
Lisa Vidal as Kara Lynch: the executive producer of the Talkback (Mary Jane's show) at SNC and Mary Jane's best friend.
Margaret Avery as Helen Patterson: Mary Jane's overprotective mother, who is battling lupus.
Latarsha Rose as Dr. Lisa Hudson: Mary Jane's best friend since elementary school, an OB/GYN. (Seasons 1-3)
Aaron D. Spears as Mark Bradley: a co-anchor at the newsroom and the closeted gay friend of Mary Jane
Richard Brooks as Patrick Patterson: Mary Jane's older, less-motivated brother.
B.J. Britt as Paul Patterson, Jr.: Mary Jane's responsible younger brother.
Raven Goodwin as Niecy Patterson: Mary Jane's niece; Patrick Patterson's daughter, who is also a mother.
Richard Roundtree as Paul Patterson, Sr.: Mary Jane's compassionate father.
Omari Hardwick as Andre Daniels: Mary Jane's married love interest. (Season 1)[16]
Stephen Bishop as David Paulk - Mary Jane's playboy love interest. (Seasons 2-3; recurring Season 1)

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text: Recurring cast[edit]

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Robinne Lee as Avery Daniels - Andre's wife, who learns of her husband's affair with Mary Jane. (Season 1)
Tatom Pender as Tracy - Patrick's girlfriend and mother of their child.
Madison Alsobrook as D'Asia - Patrick's daughter (Season 4). Formerly Navia Robinson (Seasons 1-3)
Brély Evans as Nichelle - Mary Jane's friend and publicist to the stars.
Kelly Rutherford as Cynthia Phillips (Seasons 1-2)
Ryan Homchick as Lance (Season 1-3)
Salli Richardson as Valerie (Season 2)
Gary Dourdan as Sheldon (Season 2)
Kyle Massey as Cameron (Season 2)
Loretta Devine as Cece (Season 3)
Daniella Alonso as Marisol Esparza (Season 3)
Thomas Jones as Brandon (Season 3)
Paul Rolfes as Aaron Felty (Seasons 3-4)
Michael Ealy as Justin Talbot (Season 4)
Chiké Okonkwo as Lee Truitt (Season 4)
Valarie Pettiford as Ronda Sales (Season 4)
Ashton Holmes as Garrett (Season 4)
Julian Walker as Ty (Season 4)
Cesar Cipriano as Dante (Season 4)
Tian Richards as Jovan (Season 4)

text: Guest stars[edit]

text:
Jasmine Dustin as Ana Hoem (Season 1)
Lesley-Ann Brandt as Tamiko Roberts (Season 1)
Sheila Frazier as Catherine Stafford (Season 1)
Darrin Dewitt Henson (Season 1)
Lorraine Toussaint as Aunt Toni, Paul's younger sister and Mary Jane's aunt (Season 1)
Wayne Brady as Sean Anders (Season 1)
Ludacris as Terrence Mitchell (Season 1)
Dorian Missick as Detective Cedric Rawlins (Season 1)
Frances Burnett as Dana Shultz (Season 1)
India Arie as herself (Season 2)
Christina Vidal as Lilly (Season 2) (Christina Vidal plays the sister of Kara, played by her real-life sister Lisa)
Nina Parker (season 3, episode 6)
Jill Scott (season 3, episode 5)
Kelly Rowland as Robin (season 3, episode 6)
Tamar Braxton as Herself (season 3, episode 10)
Adrienne Bailon as Herself (season 3, episode 10)
Ava DuVernay (Season 1)
Cardi B (Season 4)
Loren "Lo London" Jordan (Season 4)
Dave East (Season 4)

text: Production[edit]

text: The show was originally to be called Single Black Female.[17] The series centers on successful broadcast journalist Mary Jane Paul (played by Gabrielle Union) and her professional and private family life while searching for "Mr. Right":

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text: Mary Jane Paul has it all: she's a successful TV news anchor, entirely self-sufficient – an all-around powerhouse who remains devoted to a family that doesn’t share her motivation. As Mary Jane juggles her life, her work and her commitment to her family, we find out how far she's willing to go to find the puzzle pieces that she, and society, insist are missing from her life as a single Black female.[18]

text: Omari Hardwick plays a potential Mr. Right. Other cast members include Latarsha Rose, Lisa Vidal, Aaron D. Spears, Richard Roundtree, Margaret Avery, Richard Brooks, Tika Sumpter, Raven Goodwin, B.J. Britt, and Robinne Lee.[18]

text: The series is produced by Mara Brock Akil, who produced BET's most successful series ever, The Game, and the romantic comedy film Jumping the Broom. The pilot episode was filmed in April 2012 at 780 N. Highland Ave. in the Virginia Highland neighborhood of Atlanta.[19][20][21]

text: On September 12, 2013, BET renewed Being Mary Jane for a second season, before the first season premiered.[6] The second season premiered on February 3, 2015, and on February 5 the series was renewed for a third season,[22] which premiered October 20, 2015.

text: Controversy[edit]

text: In 2016, Gabrielle Union sued BET for allegedly depriving her of agreed upon compensation.[23]


document_title: History of Tennessee Volunteers football

question_text: in what year did the tennessee volunteers suit up for their inaugural football season

question_tokens: in what year did the tennessee volunteers suit up for their inaugural football season

text: History of Tennessee Volunteers football

text: Early years (1891–1925)[edit]

text: The Lost Years (1891–1895)[edit]

text: Tennessee's football program began in 1891, organized in large part by Henry Denlinger, a teacher who had played at Princeton. The team's first game, a loss to Sewanee, was played on November 21, 1891.[1] The program's first win did not come until October 25, 1892, when they defeated Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee, by a score of 25–0. Tennessee competed in their first 5 seasons without a coach.

text: In October 1894, the Athletic Association had resolved to drop varsity football and look forward to baseball in the spring of 1895. After the humiliating 1893 season with two wins and four imposing defeats, only two athletes willing to admit they had played on the 1893 team returned to campus in 1894. To complicate matters further, the practice field, located just west of the main entrance to the Hill, was being graded and improved.

text: Soon after the Athletic Association's decision, W. B. Stokely, a UT senior who transferred from Wake Forest University, persuaded a group of students to form a team in the fall of 1894. Stokely, who was elected captain, gave encouragement and direction to the other players. Even though the institution chose not to be represented officially on the gridiron in 1894, Stokely and his unofficial team kept football interest alive during this period when almost certainly it otherwise would have been allowed to lapse completely.

text: Start of the Vols (1896–1910)[edit]

text: These unofficial games, referred to as "The Lost Years", are not included in NCAA statistics or in official UT win-loss records. The 1896 team was the first "official team", posting the school's first winning record, and joining the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the first Southern athletics conference. 1898 was UT's first time to not have an active football team, due to the Spanish–American War.

text: Tennessee played on Waite Field during these days, on the southeast corner of 15th street and Cumberland avenue, where the Walters Life Science Building now stands.[2]

text: In 1899, J. A. Pierce became the first head coach of the team. Author Nash Buckingham was a prominent athlete in 1901 and 1902, two of Tennessee's strongest early elevens. The 1902 team scored on rival Vanderbilt for the first time, and also featured halfback Tootsie Douglas, who booted a 109-yard punt (the field length was 110 yards in those days) in a blizzard, against John Heisman's Clemson Tigers.[n 1] Fullback Sam Y. Parker of the 1904 and 1905 teams made Buckingham's All-Southern team in 1904, and was murdered in 1906 for an alleged affair.[3] Roscoe 'Piggy' Ward was the school's only three-time captain.[4]

text: The 1908 team coached by George Levene was considered the best Tennessee football yet assembled,[5] led by All-Southerns captain Walker Leach and College Football Hall of Fame inductee Nathan Dougherty. Its four SIAA wins was the most in school history. Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin noted "All things considered, Leach was perhaps the best football player of the year in Dixie."[6] The 1909 team won only a single game, and Levene was fired. The 1910 team was coached by former Sewanee tackle Lex Stone.

text: Z. G. Clevenger (1911–1915)[edit]

text: The team had several coaches with short tenures until Zora G. Clevenger took over in 1911. The 1912 squad was the first non-losing Volunteer team in four years, but they did not win a conference game.

text: In 1914, Clevenger led the Vols to a dominant 9–0 season and their first championship of any kind (even state titles), winning the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association title. The team included All-Southerns end Goat Carroll, tackle Farmer Kelly, guard Mush Kerr and fullback Rus Lindsay. Tennessee beat rival Vanderbilt for the first time, passing for two touchdowns to Carroll in a 16–14 victory. The 1914 Vols were retroactively awarded a national championship by 1st-N-Goal, though this remains largely unrecognized.[7]

text: John R. Bender (1916–1920)[edit]

text: The Vols would again field an undefeated squad in 1916 under coach John R. Bender, but consistency was still elusive. A second, unblemished SIAA championship in three years was relegated to a tie with Georgia Tech when Kentucky held Tennessee to a scoreless tie in the final week of play. End Graham Vowell was a unanimous All-Southern selection. Chink Lowe also made some All-Southern teams. The New York Herald ranked quarterback Buck Hatcher as the season's premier punter.[8]

text: Professor Dougherty officially suspended varsity football during the World War I years of 1917 and 1918 because the majority of the players were called into military service. In addition, Coach Bender was enlisted as an instructor at Camp John Sevier in Greenville, South Carolina. During this period without varsity football, two unofficial teams were formed from Army recruits and students. One team represented a training unit called the Fighting Mechanics and the other represented the Student Army Training Corps (SATC). Vanderbilt beat the SATC 78–0 in 1918, and counts the game as one against the Volunteers.[9]

text: M. B. Banks (1921–1925)[edit]

text: Under new coach M. B. Banks, in 1920, 1921, and 1922 the Vols lost to rival Vanderbilt and one other opponent. In 1921, Shields–Watkins Field, the core of modern Neyland Stadium, was built.[10][11] The new home of the Vols was named after William S. Shields and his wife Alice Watkins Shields, the financial backers of the field. The field used bleachers that could seat 3,200, and had been used for baseball the prior year. The inaugural game at Shields–Watkins field was played on September 24, 1921 and resulted in a 27–0 Tennessee victory over Emory and Henry College.[11] Rufe Clayton scored the first touchdown in the new stadium.[12] After the loss to Vanderbilt, Tennessee had its first ever victory over the Mississippi A&M Aggies, a 14–7 win. Roe Campbell spearheaded the first touchdown drive.

text: In 1922, the team began to wear orange jerseys for the first time after previously wearing black jerseys.[13] The 1923 team lost to Vanderbilt 51–7, the worst loss to the Commodores since 1909 (disregarding 1918). Estes Kefauver played as a guard on the team.

text: In 1924 and 1925, J. G. Lowe, the brother of Chink, was the last Vol football player to serve as captain two years in a row until 2004.[14]

text: Neyland comes to UT (1926–1934)[edit]

text: Robert Neyland took over as head coach in 1926. At the time, Neyland was a captain in the United States Army and an ROTC instructor at the school. Interestingly, in the 1929 season at least, his two assistant coaches (also ROTC instructors) out-ranked him. Former player Dougherty, who had then become dean of the school's engineering program and chairman of athletics, stated the priority: "Even the score with Vanderbilt", referring to the Nashville school which had been dominating football in the state under coach Dan McGugin. Captain Neyland led the Vols to a 76–7–5 record from 1926 to 1934. This first stint with UT for Neyland saw the Vols rattle off undefeated streaks of 33, 28, and 14 games, including five undefeated seasons (1927, 1928, 1929, 1931, and 1932).

text: Neyland lost to Vanderbilt in his first season, but either won or tied Vanderbilt in his next seven seasons. Neyland captured the school's first Southern Conference title in 1927, in only his second year on the job. The Commodores were up late until a Dick Dodson run tied the score.[15] "After the game McGugin questioned each of his players as to his whereabouts during the run. Without exception the players claimed that two men had blocked them. McGugin shrugged. "Well, we'll just protest the play. It's perfectly obvious that Tennessee had twenty-two men on the field."[15] Led by captain John Barnhill, the team won all its other games.

text: Dodd comes to UT[edit]

text: Longtime Georgia Tech football coach Bobby Dodd led Tennessee at quarterback to back-to-back unbeaten seasons with identical 9–0–1 records his sophomore and junior years in 1928 and 1929.

text: The 1928 Vols beat Vanderbilt for the first time since 1916, scored an upset victory over coach Wallace Wade's heavily favored Alabama Crimson Tide, and beat the Florida Gators team which led the nation in scoring by a single point, in the mud. Again like 1916, the season's only blemish was a scoreless tie with Kentucky.

text: In 1929, Gene McEver became the football program's first ever All-American. He led the nation in scoring, and his 130 points still remains the school record. Dodd was named to Grantland Rice's All-America team in 1930, making him the 2nd granted that honor at Tennessee, following McEver. McEver missed the entire 1930 season with torn ligaments in his knee. His prior sidekick at halfback Buddy Hackman filled the void and made All-Southern.

text: During Dodd's era, the Vols went 33 games without a loss until an 18–6 setback against national champion Alabama in 1930, which ranks as the longest unbeaten streak in UT history. After the loss, Dodd and his teammates helped kick off another unbeaten streak lasting 28 games that ranks as the second longest.[16][n 2]

text: In the 1930s, Tennessee saw many more firsts. They played in the New York City Charity Game on December 5, 1931, the program's first ever bowl game. Led by Herman Hickman, they scored a 13–0 victory over New York University. Hickman's performance caught the eye of sportswriter Grantland Rice, who added Hickman to his All American team, and he would later play professionally for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Led by a backfield with Deke Brackett and Beattie Feathers, the 1932 team were SoCon champions.

text: After the 1932 season, Tennessee joined the newly formed Southeastern Conference, setting the stage for decades of new and now storied rivalries with such teams like Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, and Vanderbilt. In 1933, Wallace Wade's Duke Blue Devils upset Neyland's Vols 10–2, the first loss for the Vols in over two and half seasons. It caused Neyland to say of Fred Crawford, the first first-team All-American from the state of North Carolina: "He gave the finest exhibition of tackle play I have ever seen."[20]

text: After the 1934 season, Neyland was called into military service in Panama.

text: Neyland returns, John Barnhill, and World War II (1936–1945)[edit]

text: Tennessee struggled to a losing record during Neyland's time in Panama. He returned to find a rebuilding project in 1936. In 1936 and 1937, the Vols won six games each season. However, in 1938, Neyland's Vols began one of the more impressive streaks in NCAA football history. Led by the likes of Tennessee's only three time All-American Bob Suffridge, the 1938 Tennessee Volunteers football team won the school's first National Championship and earned a trip to the Orange Bowl, the team's first major bowl, where they pounded fellow unbeaten Oklahoma by a score of 17–0. They outscored their opponents 283–16.

text: The 1939 regular season was even more impressive. The 1939 team was the last NCAA team ever to hold their opponents scoreless for an entire regular season. Surprisingly, the Vols did not earn a national title that year despite being ranked #1 for most of the season, but did earn a trip to the famed Rose Bowl. The Vols were without the services of tailback George Cafego, who would finish fourth in the Heisman voting and be the top pick in the NFL draft, due to a knee injury. Cafego's backup was also injured. For a single-wing squad heavily dependent upon the tailback position, it proved to be too much for the Vols to overcome. In front of a crowd of over 90,000, Tennessee fell by a score of 14–0 to Southern California. That loss ended UT's streak of 17 straight shutout games and 71 consecutive shutout quarters, NCAA records to this day.

text: The 1940 Vols put together a third consecutive undefeated regular season (Neyland's eighth such season with the Vols). That team earned a national title from two minor polls, and received the school's first bid to the Sugar Bowl, where they lost to Boston College.

text: After the 1940 season, Neyland was again pressed into military service, this time for World War II. His successor, assistant and former player John Barnhill, did well in his absence, going 32–5–2 during the war years of 1941 to 1945. The UT Athletic Council officially suspended varsity football in 1943 because the majority of the players were called into military service in the war.

text: Neyland's final return (1946–1952)[edit]

text: After World War II, Neyland retired from the military with the rank of brigadier general, and returned to Knoxville. From 1946 to 1952, Neyland's Vols had a record of 54–17–4. They won conference titles in 1946 and 1951, and national titles in 1950 and 1951. The 1950 season included what would prove to be the highest profile matchup between the South's two biggest coaching legends: General Neyland and Paul "Bear" Bryant, then at Kentucky. Both teams were ranked in the top ten. The Vols defeated Bryant, Kentucky star quarterback Babe Parilli, and the Wildcats, 7–0. Bryant would never win a game against Neyland.

text: The 1950 season culminated with a win against #2 Texas in Dallas at the Cotton Bowl Classic. The 1951 team featured Hank Lauricella, that season's Heisman Trophy runner up, and Doug Atkins, a future college football and Pro Football Hall of Fame performer. The Vols romped to a 10–0 regular season record (Neyland's ninth undefeated regular season) and the AP National Title.

text: Neyland retired due to poor health in 1952 after taking the Vols to an 8–2–1 record, and took the position of athletic director. His final game was the 1953 Cotton Bowl against Texas, where Tennessee was shut out 16–0. The Vols would see spotty success for some 40 years after that, but it would be the late 1980s and 1990s before the Tennessee program had similar winning percentages.

text: Robinson, Wyatt, and McDonald (1953–1963)[edit]

text: Harvey Robinson had the tough task of replacing General Neyland, and only stuck around for two seasons. Following the 1954 season, Neyland fired Robinson and replaced him with Bowden Wyatt, who had seen success at Wyoming and Arkansas. Neyland called the move "the hardest thing I've ever had to do." Wyatt, who had been a Hall of Fame player for Neyland, struggled at Tennessee. He won more than 6 games only twice, in 1956 and 1957.

text: The 1956 squad won an SEC Championship, going 10–1 and finishing the season ranked #2. That year, UT won one of the greatest games in team history, a 6–0 victory over Georgia Tech in Atlanta when both teams were ranked #2 and #3, respectively. It was voted the second best game in college football history by Sports Illustrated's 100th Anniversary of College Football issue (published in 1969). Tech was coached by former UT Hall of Fame quarterback, and revered Yellow Jacket coach, Bobby Dodd. In the final minutes of a legendary defensive struggle, UT was backed up just ahead of their own goal line, but star tailback and future head coach Johnny Majors took a direct snap and booted a roughly 70-yard punt deep into Yellow Jacket territory to seal the win. Majors would finish second in the Heisman voting that year; it was a controversial vote that resulted in the only time a player from a losing squad, Paul Hornung of 2–8 Notre Dame, won the trophy.

text: Wyatt's team never returned to a bowl game after the 1957 season. Assistant James McDonald took over for Wyatt in 1963, going 5–5.

text: Before the 1962 season, on March 28, 1962, General Neyland died in New Orleans. Shields–Watkins Field was then presented with a new and appropriate name: Neyland Stadium. The stadium was dedicated at the 1962 Alabama game, and by that time had expanded to 52,227 seats. Reflecting Tennessee's growth in stature over the years, this represented a more than 14-fold increase in capacity since Neyland's arrival on The Hill 38 years earlier. By comparison, when the stadium first opened, it was not even a fraction of the size of Vanderbilt's Dudley Field.

text: Incidentally, Neyland had a hand in designing the expansion efforts for the stadium while he was athletic director. His plans were so forward-looking that they were used for every expansion until 1996, when the stadium was expanded to 102,544 seats.

text: Doug Dickey era (1964–1969)[edit]

text: Doug Dickey, who had been an assistant at Arkansas under Frank Broyles, replaced McDonald in 1964. Dickey was entrusted with rebuilding the program, and his six seasons at the school saw considerable change, including the "three T's". In one of his first moves, Dickey scrapped the single wing formation and replaced it with the more modern T formation offense, in which the quarterback takes the snap "under center." This move was in part prompted by the fact that the single wing was by then a relatively rare offense and top high school players did not necessarily want to play in it.[n 3] Dickey also changed the helmets of the Vols, removing numbers from the side and replacing them with a "T." His third change also remains today. Dickey worked with the Pride of the Southland Marching Band to create a unique pregame entrance for the football squad. The band would open a block T with its base at the locker room tunnel. The team would then run through the T to the sideline. The T was reoriented in the 1980s when the locker room was moved behind the north end zone, and the entrance remains a prized tradition of the football program. In addition to the "three T's", Dickey instituted the now universally recognized checkerboard endzone design.

text: Dickey had some success in his six seasons as a Vol. He led Tennessee to a 46–15–4 record and captured SEC titles in 1967 and 1969. In the 1967 season, UT lost its season opening game to UCLA in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Bruin quarterback Gary Beban, who would win the Heisman Trophy that year, scored the winning touchdown in the final minutes on a fourth-down scramble. The Vols won their remaining nine regular season games, however, including the Alabama game, in which they handed Alabama its only loss of the year, and snapping a 25-game unbeaten streak by the Tide. The 24–13 win in Birmingham landed the Vols on the cover of Sports Illustrated, and was Dickey's biggest career win.

text: Bill Battle era (1970–1976)[edit]

text: Following the 1969 season, Dickey left Tennessee to coach at his alma mater, the University of Florida. He would later return to Tennessee as the Athletic Director. Dickey was replaced by Bill Battle. Battle was a 28-year-old coach from Alabama, had played and served as an assistant coach for the legendary Bear Bryant, and was the youngest head coach in the country at the time that he took over. Battle won at least 10 games in his first three seasons; however, he lost to Auburn in each of those seasons. Therefore, he did not win a conference title, and would not do so during his time as head coach.

text: Johnny Majors era (1977–1992)[edit]

text: Johnny Majors, who had played at UT from 1954 to 1956 before playing with the Montreal Alouettes in 1957, won a national championship at Pittsburgh in 1976 and decided that the job of head coach at Tennessee was too good to pass up. In 1977, he replaced Battle, who had just suffered two five-loss seasons. Majors lost his first game as head coach to the University of California, by a score of 27–17, in Knoxville. Majors struggled his first four seasons, going 4–7, 5–5–1, 7–5, and 5–6. His teams saw mild success in 1981, going to the Garden State Bowl and finishing 8–4, and in 1983, winning the Citrus Bowl and finishing 9–3.

text: Majors' 1985 Volunteer squad (9–1–2, 5–1) was one of his most revered squads. The team lost only one game, regrouped after losing the services of Heisman trophy contending quarterback Tony Robinson for the season, and won their first conference title since 1969. The Big Orange earned a trip to the 1986 Sugar Bowl, where they defeated the heavily favored and 2nd-ranked Miami Hurricanes, coached by Jimmy Johnson, 35–7. The win kept Miami from winning a national title and earned the 1985 UT squad the nickname "Sugar Vols." Also during the Majors era, Tennessee began to be known as "Wide Receiver U" after several of UT's wide receivers went on to play in the NFL. Some of these players that started this reputation included, Tim McGee, Willie Gault, Eric Swanson, and Joey Clinkscales.

text: The 1988 Vols lost their first 6 games, but went on to finish with a 5–6 record. UT then won back-to-back SEC titles in 1989 and 1990. The Vols played on a January 1 bowl game every season in the early '90s under Majors. However, in the fall of 1992, Majors suffered heart problems, and missed the early part of the season. Phillip Fulmer, then the offensive coordinator, took over as interim coach, and scored upsets over Georgia and Florida. Majors returned and lost three straight conference games to Arkansas, Alabama, and South Carolina. The Alabama loss cut the deepest as the Vols had lost seven in a row to the Crimson Tide. The administration decided to make a change after the regular season. Majors was forced to resign, and Fulmer coached the team in the Hall of Fame Bowl.

text: Phillip Fulmer era (1992–2008)[edit]

text: 1993 saw the Vols complete a 10-2 season, losing to Penn State in the Florida Citrus Bowl. 1994 saw a down turn in the record of the Vols, but events shaped the bright future of the program. Starting quarterback Jerry Colquitt suffered a season ending knee injury in the first series of the season against UCLA. Backup Todd Helton suffered a similar fate early in the fourth game of the year at Mississippi State requiring backups Brandon Stewart and Peyton Manning to take action. The following week freshman quarterback Peyton Manning would take over the controls and not let go until he departed to the NFL. Manning would be a 4-year starter for the Vols, and he led them to an 8–4 record in 1994. The next season, Manning led the Vols to a 41–14 win over Alabama, breaking the long winless streak. The only loss of the 1995 season was a 62–37 loss to Florida. The loss to the Gators was the 3rd in a row, and would prove to be the major hurdle between the Vols and the National title.

text: The Vols would put together 11–1, 10–2, and 11–2 seasons in the last three seasons with Manning as quarterback. Manning entered his senior season as a solid favorite for the Heisman Trophy. The trophy would eventually be awarded to Charles Woodson of Michigan. Manning did lead the Vols to an SEC title in 1997, before losing his final game to eventual co-National Champion Nebraska.

text: After three seasons with high expectations, the Vols faced a new task. Tennessee was expected to have a slight fall off after their conference championship the previous season. They lost QB Peyton Manning, WR's Marcus Nash and Andy McCullough, and LB Leonard Little to the NFL. Manning was the first pick overall in the 1998 NFL Draft. They were also coming off of a 42–17 loss to Nebraska in the Orange Bowl, and were in the midst of a 5-game losing streak to their rivals the Florida Gators.

text: However, the 1998 Tennessee Volunteers football team would prove to exceed all expectations. Led by new quarterback Tee Martin, All American linebacker Al Wilson, and Peerless Price, the Vols captured another National title and would win the first ever BCS Title game against Florida State. They finished the season 13–0, ending a remarkable run of 45–5 in 4 years. Those four seasons, the Vols were led by Fulmer, Offensive Coordinator David Cutcliffe, and Defensive Coordinator John Chavis. Cutcliffe took over at Ole Miss as a head coach following the 1998 regular season.

text: After 1998, the Vols made three more trips to the SEC Championship Game with Fulmer as the head coach: 2001, 2004, and 2007. The 2001 team beat then head coach Steve Spurrier and Florida in the Swamp 34–32, moving them up to #2 in most polls and giving them a shot at the BCS title game in the Rose Bowl vs Miami. But they would lose to underdog #21 LSU in the SEC Championship Game. In 2005, the team suffered its first losing season since 1988, going 5–6, fielding a nationally ranked defense but an anemic offense. Cutcliffe returned to the Vols as offensive coordinator before the 2006 season, which reunited the successful group of Fulmer, Chavis, and Cutcliffe. Tennessee rebounded to go 9–3 in the 2006 regular season, losing two heartbreakers at home to Florida and LSU. This earned a spot in the 2007 Outback Bowl, where they lost to underdog Penn State, 20–10. The 2007 season was the first in team history in which the Volunteers allowed 40 or more points in more than one game (3 times). The Vols' defense did considerably better than expected with help from seniors Xavier Mitchell, Antonio Reynolds, and Jerod Mayo, and also from freshman Eric Berry. They would eventually win the SEC Eastern Division title and would go on to play eventual National Champion LSU. The Vols would lose to the Tigers 21-14. After the SEC Championship, the Vols were invited to play the Wisconsin Badgers in the Outback Bowl on January 1, 2008, winning 21-17.

text: On January 11, 2008, it was announced that Dave Clawson had been hired as the new offensive coordinator for the Vols by head coach Phillip Fulmer.[21] He replaced David Cutcliffe, who moved to Duke University as head coach.

text: Jonathan Crompton started at quarterback for the first four games of the 2008 season and went 1–3, after which he was replaced by sophomore Nick Stephens. B. J. Coleman was the third quarterback on the roster. Clawson's appointment introduced problems with the Volunteer's offense, leading to one of the worst performing offenses under then-Head Coach Phillip Fulmer's career. Clawson's offense was focused primarily on the short game (strong running and short-range passing) which was in large contrast to UT's quarterbacks who spent their high school careers primarily throwing the ball deep. The Vols posted a dismal 5-7 record in the 2008 season, resulting in Fulmer's ouster at the end of the season. The athletic department had to come up with $6 million for Fulmer's total buyout, which would be paid over 48 months in equal installments.[22][23]

text: On November 3, 2008, Head Coach Phillip Fulmer announced that he would be stepping down from his position at the end of the season after a winning total of 152 games at his alma mater, followed, four weeks later, by UT's November 30 announcement that Oakland Raiders former head coach Lane Kiffin had been selected as his replacement.[24]

text: Lane Kiffin's tenure (2009)[edit]

text: On December 1, 2008, Lane Kiffin, former head coach of the Oakland Raiders, was announced as the new head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers. It was also reported that once the 2008 NFL regular season ended, Lane's father, Monte Kiffin, would join him in Knoxville. Monte would replace John Chavis as the Volunteers defensive coordinator.

text: On December 31, 2008, it was announced that former Ole Miss head coach Ed Orgeron would become associate coach and defensive line coach as well as recruiting coordinator for the Vols. Jim Chaney was also announced as the Vols' new offensive coordinator replacing Dave Clawson, who took the head coaching job at Bowling Green. Chaney was the tight ends coach for the NFL's St. Louis Rams, and was the offensive coordinator at Purdue University under Joe Tiller.

text: In Lane Kiffin's only year at UT, the Vols finished the season 7-6. On February 5, 2009, Kiffin gained media attention by accusing Urban Meyer of NCAA recruiting violations at Florida. The Vols would play the Gators in the third game of the season as 30-point underdogs. UT was able to keep the game close, losing 23-13. In the sixth game of the season, the Vols played #2 Alabama. Terrence Cody blocked a 44-yard field goal attempt on the final play to give the Crimson Tide a 12-10 victory. Tennessee played #22 South Carolina the following game, which fell on Halloween night. They would win 31-13, giving Kiffin his first win over a ranked team at Tennessee. In this game, the Vols wore black and orange jerseys. It was another in a series of controversial decisions made by Kiffin; some UT alumni[who?] did not want the jerseys worn because doing so challenged tradition. However, an overwhelming majority of fans said they liked the new jerseys in a local poll.[25] Tennessee would finish the regular season 7-5, earning an invitation to the 2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl against #11 Virginia Tech. They would lose to the Hokies 37-14.

text: For the 2009 season, UT paid $3.32 million to all assistant football coaches, the highest combined salary among public schools.[26] On January 12, 2010, after just one year at Tennessee, Kiffin left to accept the head coaching job at the University of Southern California after Pete Carroll was named head coach of the Seattle Seahawks.

text: Derek Dooley era (2010–2012)[edit]

text: On January 15, 2010, Derek Dooley, former Louisiana Tech head coach, was named the Volunteers' 22nd head coach, replacing Lane Kiffin.[27] Expectations for the Vols entering 2010 were relatively low in part because of having a third head coach in two years, a young and lacking offensive line, and an unresolved QB issue just weeks before the season began. Junior QB Matt Simms, son of Pro Bowl and former Super Bowl MVP Phil Simms, was named starter for the Vols for the opener against UT-Martin. After eight games the Vols were 2-6, including a heartbreaking loss at LSU which ended in controversy.

text: After Tennessee was soundly beaten by South Carolina 38-24, Dooley named true freshman QB Tyler Bray as starter for the next game against Memphis. The Vols found new life in their new QB in which Bray threw for 325 yards and 5 TDs. The Vols would make a remarkable stand throughout November going 4-0 to reach 6-6 overall and become bowl eligible. On December 30 the Vols faced North Carolina in the Music City Bowl which ended similarly to UT's previous game with LSU. A loophole in the rules (a lack of a late game 10-second runoff) gave the Tar Heels one more second in regulation in which they would kick a field goal to tie the game at 20-20 and send it into overtime. After both teams scored TDs in the first overtime, Bray would throw an interception on UT's first possession in the second overtime. UNC would cap it off by kicking the game-winning field goal to win the game 30-27. Overall, the Vols and Dooley would finish 6-7. The aftermath of UT's bowl loss to UNC resulted in the NCAA applying the same rule as the NFL when it comes to too many players on the field as time expires.

text: In 2011, in which the Vols had another losing season at 5-7, the Vols escaped sanctions in connection to an earlier scandal involving Kiffin during his coaching tenure at Tennessee apart from minor sanctions they had imposed on themselves.[28] Kiffin was also cleared by the NCAA.[29]

text: On November 18, 2012, Dooley was fired after losing 41-18 to Vanderbilt, finishing the season at 5-7 for the second consecutive season. He was replaced by Butch Jones, formerly the head coach of the University of Cincinnati, on December 7, 2012.[30][31]

text: Butch Jones era (2013–2017)[edit]

text: On December 7, 2012, Butch Jones left Cincinnati and became the 23rd head coach of the Vols.[32] In his inaugural season at UT, Jones stressed the importance of rebuilding the football program itself, as well as the culture at Tennessee, and providing much-needed coaching stability for the Vols. Jones also reiterated the significance to the team, UT, and the legions of fans of leading the Volunteers to their first winning season since 2009 and getting and winning a postseason bowl berth for the first time since 2010 and 2007, respectively.[33] Jones led the Vols to a 23-21 win over #11 South Carolina on October 19, 2013, on a last-second field goal by Michael Palardy, marking the first time that the team won over a ranked team since 2009 and a team ranked in the top 15 since 2007, when they beat the then-ranked #15 Gamecocks 27–24.[34] The team completed the season at a yet another losing season with a 5–7.

text: In 2014, UT began the season with wins over Utah State (38–7) and Arkansas State (34–19). The next 6 games saw the Vols losing to four top-12 opponents, and to unranked Florida, when Vol fans "Checkered Neyland" Orange and White for the first time.[35] The Vols then finished the regular season strong, starting when Joshua Dobbs replaced the injured Justin Worley as QB and led the team back from a 14-point deficit at South Carolina with roughly 5 minutes left in regulation. The Vols went on to win 45–42 in overtime.[36] Dobbs was then named the starting quarterback, and led the Vols on to two more wins, and a close loss to Missouri. The Vols earned their first bowl game appearance since 2010, finishing the season 6–6. UT announced they would play in the TaxSlayer Bowl, formerly known as the Gator Bowl, in Jacksonville, Florida against Iowa. The game was played on January 2, and was UT's first January bowl game since 2007.[37] In Jacksonville, the Vols struck quickly and never looked back, beating the Hawkeyes 45-28, and marking the Vols' first winning season since 2009. With the win, UT also secured its first bowl win since 2007. In February, the Vols secured a top-5 recruiting class, and their second consecutive top-10.[38]

text: 2015 brought high hopes from the start after the strong finish in 2014. The Vols started off strong with a 59–30 win over Bowling Green. Next, the Vol faithful "Checkered Neyland" for a second time against #19 Oklahoma. The Vols gave up a 14-point 4th quarter lead and eventually lost in 2OT, 31–24. After a 55-10 victory against Western Carolina in which the Vols returned both a Kick and a Punt for touchdowns, the Vols traveled to The Swamp to play Florida. Late game collapse was the story yet again, as a debatable coaching decision was made when the Vols scored a TD up 20–14 and did not go for the 2-pt conversion. The Vols later allowed a crucial 59-yard 4th down touchdown pass play with less than 2 minutes remaining. The Vols were able to drive down to attempt a 55-yard FG, but missed left by inches, losing 28–27.[39] The loss would be the Vols' 11th in a row against Florida. The Vols returned home and lost to Arkansas, 20–24 despite Evan Berry returning the opening Kickoff for a touchdown.[40] The next week, Tennessee pulled out its first win over Georgia (38–31) since 2009 and its first win over a ranked opponent since 2013.[41] Tennessee then traveled to Tuscaloosa to face Alabama. The Vols took the lead 14–13 with 6 minutes left, but allowed a touchdown on Alabama's next drive, and could not convert on their final possession, losing 19–14.[42] The Vols would finish out the season in convincing style, winning the rest of their games by a 175-81 margin, and finishing the season with 8 wins for the first time since 2007. UT announced that they would be facing #13 Northwestern in the Outback Bowl in Tampa, Florida at Raymond James Stadium on New Year's Day; the Vols' first appearance since 2007 and second consecutive bowl.[43] Tennessee won the Outback Bowl in a blowout, 45–6. Jalen Hurd was selected as MVP.[44] Tennessee ended the season on a 6–game winning streak (its first since 2003).

text: Tennessee is 21–17 in Jones' 3 years as coach, with the team's record improving each year (5–7, 7–6, 9–4). During his tenure at Tennessee, Jones has logged 12 victories against FBS "Power Five" teams, 3 wins over ranked opponents, and taken the Vols to two bowl games (both victories).

text: 2016 brought the highest expectations in the Butch Jones era. With many starters returning on both offense and defense Tennessee was the overall favorite to win the SEC East. After surviving a scare against Appalachian St. in the season opener at home, the Vols looked much better at the long awaited Battle at Bristol against Virginia Tech. Coming back from an early 14-0 deficit, Joshua Dobbs turned in a great performance and led Tennessee to an impressive 45-24 victory. An impressive victory would be followed with an underwhelming 28-19 win against Ohio the following week at Neyland Stadium. Tennessee could not put the Bobcats away early and the game stayed close into the 4th quarter. Nonetheless, Vol fans were eagerly anticipating a visit from the Florida Gators and ending the 11-game losing streak. The first half was terrible for Tennessee as the offense struggled to move the ball effectively and Florida had no trouble finding the end zone. At halftime the score had Florida leading Tennessee 21-3. The second half was a whole different story. Dobbs came back to life and the Volunteer offense ran all over the suddenly ineffective Gators. Five straight touchdowns put the Vols firmly in control. Jauan Jennings out-juked Gator DB Jaylen Tabor on a unforgettable streak to the end zone. Florida could never find a rhythm in the second half and Tennessee finished off the gators 38-28 bring an end to the Vols miserable losing streak to the Gators. The Vols would find more magic a week later in Athens between the hedges. A back-and-forth game seemed over when freshman Georgia QB Jacob Eason found WR Riley Ridley on a long TD bomb with 10 seconds left in the game to put the Bulldogs up 31-28. Misfortune followed for the Bulldogs. An unsportsmanlike penalty for excessive celebrating, a strong kickoff return from Tennessee DB Evan Berry, and another Georgia penalty put Tennessee at the Georgia 43-yard line. Dobbs dropped back and launched a prayer to the end zone. It was answered by Jennings who managed to get in front of the Georgia defenders and reel the ball in for the touchdown and the improbable victory. Tennessee was 5-0 for the first time since 1998. The hype would not last. Tennessee traveled to College Station for the first time ever a week later to take on Texas A&M. Tennessee would spend almost all of regulation trailing the Aggies but stay in striking distance. Late in the 4th quarter with A&M up 35-28 Aggie RB Trayveon Williams broke out a huge run and was destined for the end zone. Tennessee DB Malik Foreman, however, managed to catch up to Williams and strip the ball from behind him and the ball sailed out of bounds in the Volunteer end zone for a Tennessee touchback. Alvin Kamara then answered with a TD on the following Tennessee possession to send the game to overtime. The Vols and Aggies stayed locked up after the first OT, but Joshua Dobbs threw a bad interception in the second to seal the deal for Texas A&M. The season then unraveled next week in Knoxville with Alabama coming to town. With injuries piling up on the Vols there wasn't much to be done in a deflating 49-10 loss to the Crimson Tide. A much needed BYE week had Tennessee fans confident they could stay in race for the SEC East with a much easier second half to the season. That confidence would dashed in Columbia, SC with a gutting loss to the Gamecocks, 24-21. Dobbs was very ineffective and RB Jalen Hurd couldn't get many runs going. On the Monday following the loss Hurd left the team. Hurd's departure put the microscope on Jones's program and many writers questioned the stability of the team and Jones's inability to keep players in the program. Rebounding with wins against Tennessee Tech and Kentucky, the Vols went into their game with Missouri trailing the Gators by one game in the SEC East. As the game began in Knoxville, Florida sealed the East on a goal line stand against LSU in Baton Rouge. The news at Neyland Stadium silenced the crowd. Even with the SEC East lost, Tennessee still had a chance to play in the Sugar Bowl. After handling the Tigers all Tennessee had left was a favorable trip to Nashville to take on reeling Vanderbilt. Tennessee's defensive issues hit a breaking point and the Commodore offense piled up massive yards on the Vols in a spirit-crushing 45-24 win. Tennessee finished the season with a win over Nebraska in the Music City Bowl and a 9-4 record.

text: In a season hoping to put the Vols back on top in the SEC it would end up having the opposite effect in the long run. Butch Jones's personality issues would begin to come to light after the Vols were eliminated from SEC title contention. In his press conference following the elimination Jones downplayed the disappointment and instead said his players were the "champions of life". Jones's ignorance of Tennessee's most coveted ambitions in championships would greatly alienate the Volunteer fan base and set Jones up on a very difficult stage for 2017.

text: The 2017 season in Tennessee football will never be forgotten among the Volunteer faithful and for all the wrong reasons. Opening with wins against old rival Georgia Tech and Indiana St., Tennessee returned to Gainesville seemingly with momentum against the Gators and hoping to erase the embarrassing choke from two years prior. In what would be a very ugly ball game, Tennessee and Florida would struggle the entire game to advance the football. Tennessee had a few chances to take control of the game but failed constantly. It would be a goal line stand that would start a downward trend for Tennessee and its season. With a 1st-and-Goal from Florida's 1-yard line, Jones inexplicably called three straight passing plays. Tennessee QB Quentin Dormady would be intercepted on the third play. Even then, Tennessee gained another opportunity with less than a minute left in the game with another series with Goal to go down 20-17. Again, Jones would not give RB John Kelly the ball despite Kelly having a tremendous 141 yard rushing day. Another three straight broken up passing plays forced Tennessee to kick a field goal to tie game. The failure to win the game there would sting the Vols on Florida's ensuing drive. Though expected to take a knee to go to overtime, the Gators instead ran a few plays to set up one last play from their own 37-yard line. QB Felipe Franks threw a miraculous 63-yard Hail Mary to Tyrie Cleveland to give the Gators a stunning victory. The Tennessee fan base erupted in fury against Jones following the game, putting his job in jeopardy for the weeks to come. Two weeks later, following an uninspired 17-13 win over winless UMass, the Vols were shut out at Neyland Stadium for the first time in 23 years with an embarrassing 41-0 loss to the surging (and eventual playoff bound) Georgia Bulldogs. Many sports writers surmised that Jones was sure to be fired at some point during the season. The bleeding continued with another loss to South Carolina bringing Jones's record against Will Muschamp to 0-4. Yet another blowout loss to Alabama in Tuscaloosa followed. Then the Vols lost a close 29-26 game in Lexington to the Kentucky Wildcats. It was only the second victory for the Cats against the Vols since 1985. A homecoming win over Southern Miss would brighten things up just briefly before losing to Missouri on the road, 50-17. In two games against Tennessee the Tigers gained an astonishing 1,399 yards of offense. For Tennessee athletics director John Currie, he had seen enough. Butch Jones was fired the day after with Brady Hoke taking over as interim coach for two more losses against LSU and Vanderbilt respectively to finally end what was the worst season in Tennessee football history. The Vols went 4-8, losing eight games in a season for the first time in the program's 121-year history.

text: Jeremy Pruitt era (2018- )[edit]

text: After one of the most grueling searches for a head coach seen in college football, Jeremy Pruitt was named the 24th head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers on December 7, 2017. The search began with then-AD John Currie leading the way. The day after Tennessee completed its 4-8 season with a loss to Vanderbilt, Currie was on the verge of hiring former Rutgers and Buccaneers coach Greg Schiano to be head coach and both parties had even signed a memorandum of understanding. The resulting backlash from fans, sports writers, and even gubernatorial candidates in the state to this news was immensely fierce. Tennessee fans all across social media scolded Schiano for his alleged role in the Jerry Sandusky scandal when he coached at Penn State in the 90s. Though the allegations were regarded as hearsay in court testimony, writers questioned Currie's decision to bring Schiano's background to the school in light of the university's recent Title IX lawsuit settlements the year prior. Both Currie and Schiano backed out of the MOI and Currie found himself on the hot seat following the botched hire. Currie then proceeded to interview Oklahoma St. coach Mike Gundy, but was turned down. Next was Purdue coach Jeff Brohm. Brohm agreed to a deal with Currie, but Tennessee executives nixed the agreement and Brohm turned down the reduced offer. Currie then interviewed North Carolina St. coach Dave Doeren and yet again was turned down. Now desperate, Currie rushed out to Los Angeles to meet with Washington St. coach Mike Leach. Before a deal could be reached, Currie was summoned back to Knoxville by chancellor Beverly Davenport where he was fired. Phillip Fulmer took over as acting athletic director and the coaching search on December 1st. Six days later, Fulmer hired Pruitt to be the Vols new coach.

text: Notes[edit]

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Jump up ^ Douglas went on to play for Navy where in 1907 he was the second player from the south to make Walter Camp's third-team All-America.
Jump up ^ In 1959, Dodd was named to the University of Tennessee's Hall of Fame and to the College Football Hall of Fame as a player.[17][18][19] He was elected in the same year as teammate Herman Hickman.
Jump up ^ One such player was Steve Spurrier, then a top quarterback prospect from Johnson City in the Tri-Cities area, who had no interest in becoming a single-wing tailback and opted to play for Coach Ray Graves at Florida instead.

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