The Unofficial Vanderbilt Commodores Blog * Now With Fewer Law Degrees!
Dominance. Pure dominance. This was the kind of week that might trick someone into thinking that professional gambling must be easy. Only one of us lost more than we won. Tom went 3-5 which is still perfectly cromulent if it was not exactly his average. Again, gambling is dangerous. No one was 4-4. Andrew and […]
3 months ago | 1 read
Sunday night, the LSU head coaching job became open, in a coaching carousel where Florida and Penn State are already open, Auburn and Florida State seem to be trending that way, and Steve Sarkisian might go to the NFL… and that’s before you get into the jobs that might open because their coach leaves, like, […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
The #10 Vanderbilt Commodores – stop me if you have heard that recently – go into the final day of the regular season with a chance to win the SEC Regular Season Championship. They could also finish as low as 5 if my rough understanding of tiebreakers is true. Currently, Georgia is the leader in […]
4 months ago | 2 reads
Post VANDERBILT Football and/or SEC Football questions in the comments here. We just beat a top #20 Missourah (spits) team and an entire crew of refs at home. It was a weird one, but our defense shined, MK Ultra broke one, and we made just enough plays to hold on to a 17-10 victory. 7-1. […]
4 months ago | 0 reads
Have fun. Expect to win.
4 months ago | 2 reads
Vanderbilt hosts Missourah (spits) in what the Southeastern Conference for some unknown reason is calling a “conference game,” even though Vanderbilt is clearly hosting a Big 8 team. Also, this is unironically a game between the #15 team in the country and the #10 team in the country, and you’ll never believe which of those […]
4 months ago | 0 reads
In a game where Vanderbilt was favored over a Top 10 team for the first time since 1978, the Commodores did their part. It was “only” a 7-point win in the inverse way that it was a 16-point loss to Alabama. Diego Pavia could have run in another TD with just under 2 minutes on […]
4 months ago | 2 reads
Letters… we get letters… we get stacks and stacks of letters… Question(s) from Killer Furball & VU1970: How does it feel to be the #10 team in the nation? & Did you ever think we’d see a Top Ten ranked Vanderbilt football team in my lifetime? Ranked way higher than the Chuggers? Ranked above Notre […]
4 months ago | 3 reads
The School: University of Missouri Record: 6-1 (2-1 in the SEC) Ranking: AP #15, Coaches’ Poll #14, and SP+ #8 Mascot: Truman the Tiger, who looks like he might have gotten into some special catnip. Location: Columbia, Missouri. Coach: Eliah Drinkwitz. No, I did not leave out a letter. “Drink” may have the dorkiest headshots […]
4 months ago | 4 reads
Week 8 was back to the middle. The staff as a whole went 29-25, and the Commentariat actually got more than 1 game right! They tied with Andrew to lead the way at 6-3. VandyImport, Cole, and I were right behind at 5-4. Tom and Christian were 4-5, so no one really had a bad […]
4 months ago | 3 reads
A ruthless attack powered Vanderbilt by Mississippi State in Starkville on Thursday. Goals in the 5th, 14th, 36th, and 38th minute gave the Commodores a 4-0 halftime lead. They had scored on 4 of their 7 shots on target and had only put 3 shot attempts off target. The scorers were, in order, Maci Teater, […]
4 months ago | 4 reads
Post VANDERBILT Football and/or SEC Football questions in the comments here. We just beat a top 10 LSU team at home. We’ve, umm… never done that before. We’re now 6-1, have bowl eligibility before your Halloween decorations are up, and are not remotely close to being done shocking the world. Will we move into the […]
4 months ago | 2 reads
For the second year in a row, Vanderbilt is bowl-eligible. For the first time that I could find, Vanderbilt is bowl-eligible before November. It was a ball-control, man-ball kind of win for Diego Pavia and the Commodores. After holding LSU to a field goal on its opening drive, Vanderbilt went 57 yards in 9 plays […]
4 months ago | 3 reads
Yes, Vanderbilt is favored to beat LSU, which is worrisome not because we don’t want Vanderbilt to get respect but because… well, we know how things usually go when we have expectations for Vanderbilt football. Maybe this time is different? Have fun, expect to win.
4 months ago | 1 read
Vanderbilt is favored to beat (checks notes) Louisiana State University? Huh? What is going on with the universe? Anyway, time to find out if our writers think that Vanderbilt is going to follow through and get bowl eligible or if, well, this is going to play out like a typical Vanderbilt-LSU matchup. What say our […]
4 months ago | 1 read
October 4th delivered a new type of painful loss to Alabama. For much of Vanderbilt football history, the pain has been because the loss was by a ridiculous number of points or was never competitive. The most recent matchup was a 9-point game with a garbage time TD on 4th and 2 thrown on top. […]
4 months ago | 3 reads
The School: Louisiana State University Record: 5-1 (2-1 in the SEC) Ranking: AP #10, Coaches’ Poll #10, and SP+ #17 Mascot: Mike the Tiger, both a typical mascot and the real-life badass tiger (Mike VII). Seriously, the enclosure is one of the coolest on-campus features that I have ever seen. Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Born […]
4 months ago | 3 reads
For the first time in conference play, Vanderbilt performed up to their standard against an outmatched opponent. The scoreless draw with LSU, loss at Texas, and 1-0 win over Auburn were all chances to stamp out opponents decisively, but the Commodores were 1-1-1 in those matches. The standard was met against Missouri with a pair […]
4 months ago | 2 reads
Letters… we get letters… we get stacks and stacks of letters… Question from Ofermod: How much of the poor performance was due to just not being truly ready/comfortable with a high-visiblity game in a high-pressure environment with high expectations, and how much of it was actual issues that need to be adddressed? And does this […]
4 months ago | 1 read
Week 8 was a second consecutive week missing more than we hit after 4 straight weeks looking smart-ish. The staff was a collective 21-27. Christian was the best performer at 5-3. Cole and Import were right behind at 4-4. Tom and I just missed out on .500 at 3-5. Andrew scuffled to a 2-6 mark. […]
4 months ago | 3 reads
The buyout? A whopping 49 million dollars. Ouch!
4 months ago | 1 read