KNOXVILLE — As Tennessee’s football team prepares for its first bowl game in three years, the Volunteers will get ready to face Indiana from the Big 10 in the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla.
Tennessee has played a Big 10 team in a bowl game 15 times and the Volunteers have an 11-4 record.
Tennessee has two losses to Penn State, one two Iowa and one to Purdue. The Vols have a bowl loss to Nebraska when the Cornhuskers were in the Big 12. UT is 0-3 against Penn State since 1991. The Nittany Lions are 2-0 against the Vols as a member of the BIg 10.
Penn State also beat Tennessee, 42-17, in the Fiesta Bowl following the 1991 season when the Nittany Lions were Division I Independent.
The Volunteers beat Nebraska, 38-24, in their last postseason appearance in the Music City Bowl following the 2016 season when Tennessee finished 9-4.
All-time scores: Tennessee vs. the Big Ten in bowl games
Dec. 31, 1979: Bluebonnet Bowl (Houston, Texas) Purdue 27, Tennessee 22.
Dec. 13, 1981: Garden State Bowl (East Rutherford, New Jersey) Tennessee 28, Wisconsin 21.
Dec. 31, 1982: Peach Bowl (Atlanta, Georgia) Iowa 28, Tennessee 22.
Dec. 29, 1986: Liberty Bowl (Memphis) Tennessee 21, Minnesota 14.
Jan. 2, 1988: Peach Bowl (Atlanta, Georgia) Tennessee 27, Indiana 22.
Jan. 1, 1994: Florida Citrus Bowl (Orlando, Florida) Penn State 31, Tennessee 13.
Jan. 1, 1996: Florida Citrus Bowl (Orlando, Florida) Tennessee 20, Ohio State 14.
Jan. 1, 1997: Florida Citrus Bowl (Orlando, Florida) Tennessee 48, Northwestern 28.
Jan. 1, 2002: Florida Citrus Bowl (Orlando, Florida) Tennessee 45, Michigan 17.
Jan. 1. 2007: Outback Bowl (Tampa, Florida) Penn State 20, Tennessee 10.
Jan. 1, 2008: Outback Bowl (Tampa, Florida) Tennessee 21, Wisconsin 17.
Jan, 2, 2015: TaxSlayer Bowl (Jacksonville, Florida) Tennessee 45, Iowa 28.
Jan. 1, 2016: Outback Bowl (Tampa, Florida) Tennessee 45, Northwestern 6.
Dec. 30, 2016: Music City Bowl (Nashville) Tennessee 38, Nebraska 24.