No. 4 Tennessee (4-0, 1-0 SEC) will play at Arkansas (3-2. 1-1 SEC) Saturday in Week 6 of the 2024 college football season.
One of Tennessee’s most revered football figures, Johnny Majors, served as an assistant coach for the Razorbacks.
He was an assistant coach under Frank Broyles at Arkansas from 1964-67.
During Majors’ tenure with Arkansas, the Razorbacks were 33-8-1 (22-5-1 SWC). Arkansas won two Southwest Conference championships (1964-65) and one national championship in 1964.
Majors coached defensive backs under Broyles and was one of several coaches on the staff who had long careers. Jim Mackenzie, who was head coach at Oklahoma in 1966, was defensive coordinator and assistant head coach.
Mackenzie went 6-4 at Oklahoma and was named Big Eight Coach of the Year. His career, however, was cut short after suffering a fatal heart attack in 1967.
Barry Switzer coached Arkansas’ offensive ends. He won three national championships as head coach at Oklahoma and won one Super Bowl title with Dallas Cowboys.
Wilson Matthews, a longtime high school coach, finished his career on Broyles’ staff, serving as defensive ends and linebackers coach from 1958-68.
Bill Pace was offensive backs coach. He would later become head coach at Vanderbilt (1967-72) and also served as Tennessee’s assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach from 1980-81.
Cowboys’ owner Jerry Jones was an offensive lineman for Arkansas in 1964.
Jimmy Johnson, who won a national championship as head coach at Miami and won two Super Bowl titles with Dallas, was a defensive lineman. Ken Hatfield, who was head coach at Air Force (1979-83), Arkansas (1984-89), Clemson (1990-93) and Rice (1994-2005), was a defensive back.
The Razorbacks won the 1965 Cotton Bowl, 10-7, against Nebraska.
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