Tennessee’s Jalen Hurd (1) prepares to stiff-arm Vanderbilt’s Tre Hendron (31). The Vanderbilt Commodores visited the Tennessee Volunteers in SEC football action November 28, 2015.KNOXVILLE – Tennessee flirted with a little bit of history Saturday during its 53-28 rout of visiting Vanderbilt.
For a little while in the second half, the Volunteers were on the verge of having three 100-yard rushers in the same game for the second time in program history and the first time since 1991.
Even though Alvin Kamara and Josh Dobbs came a combined 8 yards short of joining Jalen Hurd (120 yards), Tennessee’s players and staff have to be thrilled with the program’s most productive rushing game in more than 20 years.
“Me and Dobbs, we’re on the sideline talking towards the end of the fourth, and we were trying to go back in,” Kamara said. “It says a lot. It speaks volumes to the O-line. They’ve been working hard on all year to become more solid of an O-line. They bond with us, and we get along really well.
“We wish we could’ve gotten three hundred-yard rushers. It would have been a good little sales pitch. But it was fun.”