The Smokey Grey lingers on.
Tennessee announced that its football team will don “Smokey Grey” uniforms this season, meaning the alternate design will be used for at least one game this season, as well as during the 2023, 2024 and 2025 season.
𝗦𝗠𝗢𝗞𝗘𝗬 𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗬 𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦 ⛰️
— Tennessee Football (@Vol_Football) August 18, 2022
• OG Smokey Grey uniform set returns for 2022
• 3 new Smokey Grey designs to debut in subsequent seasons (‘23, ‘24, ‘25)
• Each design honors Tennessee's unique tradition and innovative identity
Tennessee wore the Smokey Gray uniforms from 2015 to 2017. The Vols were 3-1 during that time in the grey getup. That record includes a pair of 21-point comeback wins in 2015 against Georgia and in 2016 against Florida. It also includes a 38-24 victory over Nebraska in the 2016 Music City Bowl in which Derek Barnett break Reggie White’s UT career sack record. The Volunteers will don the uniform for the first time since Sept. 30, 2017.
seasons (2022, ’23, ’24 and ’25), with the potential to scale beyond those years.