The Florida–Tennessee football rivalry is an American college football rivalry game played annually by the Florida Gators football team of the University of Florida and the Tennessee Volunteers football team of the University of Tennessee. Approximately miles ( km) from each other, the Gators and Vols first met on the gridiron in 1916, and have competed in the same conference since Florida and UT joined the now-defunct Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1910 and 1895, respectively. However, a true rivalry has developed only during the last two decades due to infrequent match-ups previously; in the first seventy-six years (1916–1991) of the series, the two teams met just twenty-one times.