Category: Vanderbilt

If there is one team that’s utterly predictable in the last six years in the SEC, it’s Kentucky. Only once in the last six years have the Wildcats lost less than 5 games, and only twice in the last six years have the Wildcats won more than six. They’ve taken advantage of a weak SEC East by consistently beating Missouri (5-1 over that time, Vanderbilt (5-1) and South Carolina (5-1). They aren’t bad against Tennessee (2-4), but against Florida (1-5) and Georgia (0-6), they’ve been hopeless. Against permanent cross-division rival Mississippi State they’ve been moderately successful (3-3), but they’ve not been able to beat Alabama, Auburn, LSU or LSU (although smaller sample sizes). The only team they’ve got a winning

In a way, LSU exemplified a lot of teams in the SEC: Lots of offense, not a lot of defense. The two most balanced teams – Alabama and Texas A&M – were in the Top 5 in the country – and even Florida (6th) had issues stopping people. Look, we knew that LSU would take a step back from their set-the-world-alight 2020. The good players either declared for the draft, or decided to opted out for COVID reasons, or opt out during the season. Basically, LSU was a running a threadbare organisation. But we didn’t know how threadbare they were until they stepped on the field against Mississippi State….and were outplayed by them. And yees, you would have expected losses to

Yesterday the SEC invited Texas and Oklahoma to the party, starting 2025. Texas and Oklahoma unanimously accepted it – probably the first time they’ve agreed on anything in 401 years. So here we are. And there have been various theories about how it’s going to be split: Pods – This was seen on the SEC Network, but goes generally like this:  North: Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi State East: Auburn, Alabama, LSU, Ole Miss West: Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Texas A&M As to whom would play in the SEC Championship Game, it would be the two teams with the best records. Although some might want a SEC semi-final and final, this wouldn’t work because the max

Although the Sarah Fuller news made us all smile, last season was so bad for the Vanderbilt Commodores before the season with the transfers and opt-outs that the 0-9 season that happened seemed inevitable from Day 1, and it came true in an awful way. Several times they played like an episode of ‘300’, fighting monster schools valiantly with a roster of under 53, but still playing the games anyway. It was sad, and not even uplifting. In fact, it so awful that Vanderbilt fired its head coach Derek Mason, replacing him with Notre Dame assistant Clark Lea (Let’s not feel too sorry for Mason, who’s getting paid $1.5m at Auburn to be the new DC). So can they avoid

  The powers-that-be who runs the College Football Play-Off have recommended that the play-off be expanded from four to 12 teams. The bracket would include the six highest-ranked college football champions plus six teams as determined by the College Football Play-Off Committee, ostensibly giving the Committee even more power than they had when recommending four. We don’t know who would do the ranking for the other 6, but we can only hope it’s the AP. The SEC backed the idea (for very good reason because if it had been last year they would have seen four SEC teams get in (Alabama, Texas A&M, Georgia and Florida), as did the other Power-5 conferences. The first round/play-in games for the Final 8