EL PASO — Throughout its proud history, the University of Tennessee football program has won six national championships and appeared in 54 postseason bowl games.
Many players, coaches and one broadcaster, Lindsey Nelson, have been inducted into bowl game Halls of Fame.
The first segment in Vols Wire’s bowl series chronicled the accomplishments of Nelson, Andy Kozar and Hank Lauricella, who are in the Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame.
This installment focuses on the Sun Bowl and Tennessee great Johnny Majors.
In 1984, Majors led the Vols to the Sun Bowl to play Maryland.
The Terrapins edged Tennessee, 28-27.
Majors, a College Football Hall of Famer as a player at UT and a national championship head coach at Pittsburgh in 1976, coached three times in the Sun Bowl with the Vols, Iowa State and with the Panthers.
In 1971, Majors completed his lone winning season with the Cyclones with a 33-15 loss to LSU.
With Pittsburgh, his Panthers toppled Kansas, 33-19, in 1971.
At Tennessee, Majors and the Vols dropped a heartbreaker to the Terps.
Majors, the 1973 Walter Camp Coach of the Year and AFCA Coach of the Year in 1976, is also in the Sugar Bowl Hall of Fame and the Peach Bowl Hall of Fame.
He was a named a Legend of the Sun Bowl in 1995.