Tennessee announced on Tuesday that the annual DISH Orange and White has been scheduled for April 25 at 2 p.m. inside Neyland Stadium.
The Volunteers will kick off spring practice on March 24 and hold 15 practices leading up to the spring game.
The Apil 25 date of the Orange and White game will be the latest the spring game has been played since 1996, when the game took place on April 27.
Since Butch Jones’ arrival, the Orange and White games have featured two of the top three crowds in Vol history, with 2013 drawing a crowd of 61,076 and 2014 having 68,548 in attendance — the second-largest crowd for a spring game in UT history.
The attendance record for the Orange and White game is 73,801, which was set in 1986 following the Vols’ 35-7 Sugar Bowl victory over the then-No. 2 Miami (FL) Hurricanes.
The Vols will enter the 2015 Orange and White Game on the heels of their first bowl victory since the 2007 season and their first winning season since 2009. Tennessee finished the 2014 season with a 7-6 record after defeating the Iowa Hawkeyes 45-28 in the TaxSlayer Bowl on January 2.
The Vols will return 18 starters on offense and defense from the 2014 campaign for their 2015 spring practices.
Tennessee also announced that details on the festivities surrounding the 55th edition of the spring game and spring practice dates will be released when they become available.