Sooners, Vols Announce Football Series

NORMAN, Okla. -- Oklahoma and Tennessee announced today that they will meet on the gridiron in 2014 and 2015. The Sooners will host the Volunteers, Sept. 13, 2014, in Norman, Okla., before the schools face one another in Knoxville Sept. 12, 2015.

“We're very excited to announce this agreement with Tennessee,” said OU Athletics Director Joe Castiglione. “We embrace intersectional match-ups that bring together programs rich in tradition. Games of this kind are significant to fans from both schools, but also for college football in general.”

"This matchup is another opportunity for two of the great traditional college football programs to meet on the field," UT athletics director Mike Hamilton said. "Both programs have storied histories and rank among the NCAA's top 10 in all-time total wins. Since 1926, Tennessee and Oklahoma rank first and third, respectively, in overall victories."

Despite each program's standing among the nation's elite, Tennessee and Oklahoma have met only twice, with both games taking place at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Fla. The Vols shut out the Sooners 17-0 in the 1939 Orange Bowl (UT's second bowl game ever). Then in the 1968 Orange Bowl, Oklahoma posted a 26-24 victory to even the all-time series at 1-1.

Oklahoma has 506 victories over the last 50 years, tops in the country during that span. Tennessee is ninth on that list with 462.

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