The Vols will open its season against Ball State at Neyland Stadium. Kickoff is slated for 7 p.m. EDT and SEC Network will televise the season-opening matchup.
The meeting is the first between the two schools.
Tennessee will play in the second Johnny Majors Classic Sept. 10 at Pittsburgh, followed by hosting Akron Sept. 17 and Florida Sept. 24 during the season’s opening month.
All Vol Weekend will consist of a fan-friendly spring weekend featuring multiple UT teams in action and a fan fest tailgate, April 7-10.
Tennessee will have a football scrimmage April 9 at 1 p.m. EDT at Anderson Training Center and will be closed to the general public. There will be no live digital stream of the scrimmage.
Volunteer Village at Humanities Plaza will welcome fans and feature two big screens that will carry the scrimmage. In addition to live interviews with head coach Josh Heupel, VFLs and other guests on the screen, Volunteer Village will showcase food trucks, music and activities for all ages from noon-3 p.m. EDT.
Following the Vols’ fifth spring practice on Wednesday, assistant coach Joey Halzle discussed Tennessee’s quarterbacks Hendon Hooker, Joe Milton III and Tayven Jackson.
A trio of Oklahoma quarterbacks are coaching in the Tennessee-Florida rivalry game.
No. 12 Florida (2-1) will host Tennessee (2-1) Saturday at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
Kickoff between the Vols and Gators is slated for 7 p.m. EDT. ESPN will televise the Southeastern Conference matchup.
Josh Heupel is in his first season as the Vols’ head coach. Heupel played collegiately at Oklahoma from 1999-2000. He guided the Sooners to the 2000 BCS national championship.
Heupel completed 615-of-972 passes for 7,066 yards, 50 touchdowns and 30 interceptions with Oklahoma. He rushed for 69 yards and 12 touchdowns on 130 attempts.
Joey Halzle is serving as Heupel’s quarterbacks coach at Tennessee.
Halzle also played quarterback at Oklahoma from 2006-08, completing 53-of-83 passes for 640 yards, four touchdowns and two interceptions.
In this Jan. 3, 2001, file photo, Oklahoma quarterback Josh Heupel is carried off the field by his teammates after defeating Florida State 13-2 in the Orange Bowl in Miami. (Greg Lovett/Palm Beach Post via AP, File)Quarterback Joey Halzle #15 of the Oklahoma Sooners throws against the Texas Tech Red Raiders at Jones AT&T Stadium on November 17, 2007 in Lubbock, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
Garrick McGee is serving as Dan Mullen’s quarterbacks coach at Florida in 2021.
McGee played quarterback at Oklahoma from 1994-95. McGee completed 195-of-377 passes, totaling 2,449 yards, 11 touchdowns and 19 interceptions with the Sooners.
He totaled 234 rushing yards and scored three touchdowns on 132 attempts.
Sept. 3, 1994: Quarterback Garrick McGee of the Oklahoma Sooners prepares to pass the ball during a game against the Syracuse Orangemen. Oklahoma won the game, 30-29. Mandatory Credit: Rick Stewart /Allsport
Joey Halzle discusses Vols’ quarterbacks through two fall camp practices.
Tennessee held its second practice of fall training camp on Thursday at Haslam Field.
Following practice, quarterbacks coach Joey Halzle met with media and provided his assessment of the signal-callers through two outings.
“It’s been really positive,” Halzle said. “For starters, everyone is going out and competing their butts off, not getting a bunch of misses with call and protections, calling runs as fast as we go. Our eye discipline has been really good, and zero turnovers so far in camp right now.
“In camp, the first couple days you always have a tendency to be sloppy, especially with a new offense, but guys are doing a great job getting their eyes in the right place, getting the body in the right place and taking care of the football.”
Quarterbacks Harrison Bailey, Hendon Hooker, Brian Maurer and Joe Milton III are competing for the Vols’ starting position.
Photo by Dan Harralson, Vols Wire
Tennessee will kick off the season under first-year head coach Josh Heupel on Sept. 2 against Bowling Green at Neyland Stadium.
Kick off is slated for 8 p.m. EDT with SEC Network televising the matchup.
Josh Heupel was hired as Tennessee’s head coach on Jan. 27 after serving in the same capacity at UCF from 2018-20.
Josh Heupel was hired as Tennessee’s head coach on Jan. 27 after serving in the same capacity at UCF from 2018-20.
Heupel is in the process of assembling his first coaching staff at Tennessee.
Joey Halzle will serve as quarterbacks coach on Heupel’s Tennessee staff.
Halzle comes to Tennessee from UCF. He served as Heupel’s quarterbacks coach at UCF in 2020 and as an offensive quality control assistant in 2019.
Halzle has also worked alongside Heupel at Missouri, Utah State and Oklahoma.
When Heupel was Missouri’s offensive coordinator in 2016, Halzle served as an offensive analyst and assistant quarterback coach. He was in the same role at Utah State in 2015 when Heupel was offensive coordinator.
Quarterback Joey Halzle #15 of the Oklahoma Sooners throws against the Texas Tech Red Raiders at Jones AT&T Stadium on November 17, 2007 in Lubbock, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
Halzle was an offensive graduate assistant at Oklahoma from 2012-14 after helping the Sooners from 2009-11 as an offensive quality control assistant. Heupel was Oklahoma’s co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2011-14 and oversaw the Sooners’ signal-callers between 2006-10.
Halzle worked in the private sector from 2017-18. He won three letters as a quarterback at Oklahoma from 2006-08.
