Head Coach Johnny Majors and his team performed the first Vol Walk into Neyland Stadium before the Alabama game on October 20, 1990. They marched from Bill Gibbs Hall down Yale Avenue (now Peyton Manning Pass) and Stadium Drive (now Phillip Fulmer Way) into Neyland Stadium about two hours before kickoff. In 1989 the team had walked unofficially to the games from Bill Gibbs Dormitory. That phenomenon caught on with fans, but the first publicized and announced Vol Walk did not take place until the Alabama game in 1990.
The starting point for the walk was subsequently changed to Neyland-Thompson Sports Center. In 2009 Coach Lane Kiffin shortened the walk to go from Circle Park to the stadium and moved it closer to game time to avoid downtime prior to the game. The walk was not held on September 23, 2006 (Marshall, homecoming), because of the very heavy rainfall, which also delayed kickoff and cancelled running through the T.