MEMPHIS – The longest ever break in the Tennessee-Memphis football series is not coming to an end in the near future, but the schools could renew their basketball rivalry soon.
Tennessee football coach Butch Jones largely deflected a question about the possibility of the Volunteers returning to the city for a game with the Tigers while talking to media before Sunday’s Big Orange Caravan stop at the Agricenter in Memphis.
“The scheduling is always many, many years down the road and I know that our scheduling right now is set for many years,” Jones said.
Tennessee and Memphis have not played in football since 2010. The Volunteers own a 22-1 all-time record in the series that began in 1968. Until this dormant period, the longest break between meetings had been three seasons.
The basketball series between the two is also in its longest drought since the in-state foes began playing regularly in 1988. But Tennessee coach Rick Barnes indicated that series will resume soon.