Mercer vs. Tennessee
Mercer and Tennessee have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1912; Tennessee leads the series 2–1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Tennessee 2–1, and Tennessee has won the last 2. Share
- Mercer wins
- 1
- Tennessee wins
- 2
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1912
- Longest streak
- 2 Tennessee
- Current streak
- 2 Tennessee
- Last 10 meetings
- Tennessee 2–1
- Most recent
- 1940
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 26.3 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Mercer
- 1–0 Mercer’s record at home
- At Tennessee
- 2–0 Tennessee’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 2
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Both programs through the years
Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.
From the newspapers
1940 · The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, Sep 29, 1940
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.
Every game
| Sep 28, 1940 | Tennessee 49, Mercer 0 | at Tennessee | ||
| Oct 28, 1939 | 1Tennessee 17, Mercer 0 | at Tennessee | ||
| Nov 9, 1912 | Mercer 27, Tennessee 14 | at Mercer |
Every game is listed as played on the field.