1959 Tennessee Volunteers football team

1959 Tennessee Volunteers football
1959 Tennessee Volunteers football
Conference	Southeastern Conference
Record	5–4–1 (3–4–1 SEC)
Head coach	Bowden Wyatt (5th season);
Home stadium	Shields–Watkins Field
	Seasons ← 1958 1960 →

The 1959 Tennessee Volunteers (variously "Tennessee", "UT" or the "Vols") represented the University of Tennessee in the 1959 college football season. Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Bowden Wyatt, in his fifth year, and played their home games at Shields–Watkins Field in Knoxville, Tennessee. They finished the season with a record of five wins, four losses and one tie (5–4–1 overall, 3–4–1 in the SEC).

Record5–4–1 (3–4–1 SEC)

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1959 Southeastern Conference football standings
v t e	Conf.					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 5 Georgia $	7	–	0	–	0	10	–	1	–	0
No. 3 LSU	5	–	1	–	0	9	–	2	–	0
No. 2 Ole Miss #	5	–	1	–	0	10	–	1	–	0
No. 10 Alabama	4	–	1	–	2	7	–	2	–	2
Auburn	4	–	3	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
Vanderbilt	3	–	2	–	2	5	–	3	–	2
Georgia Tech	3	–	3	–	0	6	–	5	–	0
Tennessee	3	–	4	–	1	5	–	4	–	1
No. 19 Florida	2	–	4	–	0	5	–	4	–	1
Kentucky	1	–	6	–	0	4	–	6	–	0
Tulane	0	–	5	–	1	3	–	6	–	1
Mississippi State	0	–	7	–	0	2	–	7	–	0

$ – Conference champion ^# Berryman, Billingsley, Dunkel, Sagarin national champion Rankings from AP Poll

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Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 26	No. 3 Auburn		Shields–Watkins Field Knoxville, TN (rivalry)	W 3–0	40,500	^[1]
October 3	Mississippi State	No. 9	Shields–Watkins Field Knoxville, TN	W 22–6	26,895	^[2]
October 10	No. 3 Georgia Tech	No. 8	Shields–Watkins Field Knoxville, TN (rivalry)	L 7–14	45,021	^[3]
October 17	at Alabama	No. 14	Legion Field Birmingham, AL (Third Saturday in October)	T 7–7	42,000	^[4]
October 24	Chattanooga*		Shields–Watkins Field Knoxville, TN	W 23–0	23,000–25,000	^[5]^[6]
October 31	at North Carolina*	No. 20	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC	W 29–7	30,000	^[7]
November 7	No. 1 LSU	No. 13	Shields–Watkins Field Knoxville, TN	W 14–13	47,000	^[8]
November 14	vs. Ole Miss	No. 9	Crump Stadium Memphis, TN (rivalry)	L 7–37	32,515	^[9]
November 21	at Kentucky	No. 20	McLean Stadium Lexington, KY (rivalry)	L 0–20	38,000	^[10]
November 28	Vanderbilt		Shields–Watkins Field Knoxville, TN (rivalry)	L 0–14	31,000	^[11]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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