Jones Hits 100,000 Followers On Twitter

Oct. 28, 2013

On Monday at 11:24 a.m ET., Vols head coach Butch Jones became the third college football coach to surpass the 100,000 follower mark on Twitter. Jones' account @UTCoachJones was followed by Josh Poloha (@JorshP) to reach 100,000.

His account @UTCoachJones only trails @LSUCoachMiles and @CoachBrianKelly.

Take a look at the most followed FBS college football coaches on Twitter as of Oct. 28, 2013 at 2 p.m.

No.	School	Coach	Handle	Followers
1	LSU	Les Miles	LSUCoachMiles	120,052
2	Notre Dame	Brian Kelly	CoachBrianKelly	100,911
3	Tennessee	Butch Jones	UTCoachJones	100,139
4	Georgia	Mark Richt	MarkRicht	89,095
5	Arkansas	Bret Bielema	BretBielema	77,638
6	Ole Miss	Hugh Freeze	CoachHughFreeze	57,628
7	Nebraska	Bo Pelini	BoPelini	57,355
8	Ohio State	Urban Meyer	OSUCoachMeyer	56,431
9	Kentucky	Mark Stoops	UKCoachStoops	54,237
10	Washington	Steve Sarkisian	Coach Sark	50,668
11	Miss State	Dan Mullen	CoachDanMullen	49,541
12	Florida	Will Muschamp	CoachWMuschamp	48,407
13	Auburn	Gus Malzahn	CoachGusMalzahn	47,222
14	Washington State	Mike Leach	Coach_Leach	45,876
15	Texas Tech	Kliff Kingsbury	TTUKingsbury	45,239
16	Texas A&M	Kevin Sumlin	CoachSumlin	44,293
17	Texas	Mack Brown	UT_MackBrown	40,261
18	Missouri	Gary Pinkel	mizzoufootball	36,800
19	Oklahoma State	Mike Gundy	CoachGundy	34,619
20	West Virginia	Dana Holgorsen	Holgorsendana	33,421
21	Louisville	Charlie Strong	CharlieStrongUL	32,880
22	Miami (Fla.)	Al Golden	GoldenAl	29,171
23	Vanderbilt	James Franklin	jamesfranklinvu	25,702
24	Northwestern	Pat Fitzgerald	coachfitz51	24,751
25	Oklahoma	Bob Stoops	OU_CoachStoops	24,124
26	UNC	Larry Fedora	CoachFedora	22,928
27	UCLA	Jim Mora	UCLACoachMora	20,618
28	Kansas	Charlie Weis	CoachWeisKansas	20,470
29	Oregon State	Mike Riley	Coach_Riley	19,392
30	Cincinnati	Tommy Tuberville	Ttuberville	18,992
31	Indiana	Kevin Wilson	IUCoachWilson	17,936
32	NC State	Dave Doeren	StateCoachD	14,831
33	Maryland	Randy Edsall	RandyEdsall	14,443
34	Michigan State	Mark Dantonio	DantonioMark	14,239
35	Virginia	Mike London	CoachMikeLondon	13,361
36	Louisiana Tech	Skip Holtz	CoachHoltz	13,257
37	Southern Methodist	June Jones	CoachJuneJones	12,278
38	Duke	David Cutcliffe	DavidCutcliffe	11,803
39	Baylor	Art Briles	CoachArtBriles	11,563
40	TCU	Gary Patterson	TCUCoachP	11,467
41	Illinois	Tim Beckman	coachbeckman	10,801
42	South Florida	Willie Taggart	CoachTaggart	10,570
43	GA Tech	Paul Johnson	GTPaulJohnson	10,497
44	Colorado State	Jim McElwain	Coach McElwain	9,376
45	Arizona	Rich Rodriguez	CoachRodAZ	9,124
46	Stanford	David Shaw	CoachDavidShaw	8,889
47	Oregon	Mark Helfrich	CoachHelfrich	8,556
48	LA Lafayette	Mark Hudspeth	ULCoachHud	8,140
49	WKU	Bobby Petrino	CoachPetrinoWKU	7,556
50	Rutgers	Kyle Flood	KyleFloodRU	7,192

Please submit corrections to Jason Yellin at jyellin@utk.edu

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