KNOXVILLE — When Tennessee plays its next football game, it will be against the Indiana Hoosiers in the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl after the calendar moves to 2020.
The Vols (7-5) and the Hoosiers (8-4) have met in the postseason before.
The two schools played in the Peach Bowl on Jan. 2, 1988 and the Volunteers prevailed, 27-22.
Indiana has always been a basketball school, especially when the legendary and sometimes volatile Bob Knight coached there. Under his guidance, the Hoosiers won NCAA championships on the hardwood in 1976, 1981 and 1987.
Over time, the Hoosiers have produced their share of players and coaches who have moved on to have success after leaving Bloomington.
Here is a brief history of Indiana Football
Bill Mallory coached the Hoosiers when they played the Vols in the Peach Bowl in 1988. He spent 13 years at Indiana and compiled a record of 69-77-3.
Cam Cameron and Quinn Buckner both played football and basketball for the Hoosiers under Knight.
Buckner was on the 1976 team that was the last college basketball team to go undefeated. He was an NBA player and an Olympic Gold Medalist.
Cameron played quarterback at IU (1981-83) and also played basketball with the likes of Dan Dakich and Nevada coach Steve Alford.
He began coaching as a graduate assistant at Michigan as soon as his senior season of basketball was over in Bloomington. Cameron was a graduate assistant from 1984-85.
Between 1986-93, Cameron coached quarterbacks and wide receivers for the Wolverines.
He was the Washington Redskins quarterbacks coach (1994-96) before returning to become head coach for the Hoosiers (1997-2001), going 18-37.
The former Hoosier served as an NFL offensive coordinator in San Diego (2002-06) and Baltimore (2008-12). He was then head coach of the Miami Dolphins in 2007 when he went 1-15.
Cameron was LSU’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach between 2013 and 2016.
Other notable Indiana head coaches include Sam Wyche, who guided the Hoosiers to a 3-8 record in 1983. He would later coach the Cincinnati Bengals, where he made it to Super Bowl XXIII where he lost to his mentor, the late Bill Walsh.
Wyche later coached the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Lee Corso (now at ESPN) coached the Hoosiers from 1973-82 and Gerry DiNardo succeeded Cameron in Bloomington and coached there for three seasons after tenures with Vanderbilt and LSU.
Tom Allen is Indiana’s current head coach and is 18-19 and in the midst of his fourth season at the school.
He led guided the Hoosiers to the Foster Farms Bowl in 2016. But the Hoosiers lost to Utah 26-24.
The Hoosiers have been playing football since 1887 and have a record of 487-677-45. Indiana has appeared in 11 bowl games, winning three of them.
Mallory got Indiana to bowl games six times. During his tenure Indiana beat South Carolina in the 1988 Liberty Bowl 34-10 and got a 24-0 shutout win over Baylor in the 1991 Copper Bowl.