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.
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.