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If you follow Vanderbilt football’s recruiting at all, you likely knew the Commodores were in hot pursuit of Curtis who plays his high school football at Nashville Christian. He is ranked either #1 (Rivals/On3 and ESPN) or #3 (247) among passers in the 2026 class. He is unanimously the best player in the state of […]
Then there were 8. Actually with yesterday’s results, there are only 5 teams still alive for the NCAA Women’s Soccer Championship. On the opposite side of the bracket, (1) Stanford and (2) Duke will face off. (3) Florida State awaits the winner of today’s match between (1) Vanderbilt and (2) TCU. Monday’s match between Vanderbilt […]
So, we’re down to the final game of the 2025 season. Vanderbilt is 9-2 and has a chance to win ten games in a football season for the first time ever. No, I did not have Clark Lea’s 2025 Commodores potentially winning more games than Jerry Stackhouse and Bryce Drew did in their final seasons […]
Being able to say “the score did not indicate how the game went” in an SEC game that Vanderbilt won 45-17 and not meaning it as “Vanderbilt got away with one” is so refreshing. In a game where Diego Pavia set the Vanderbilt single game passing record and Kentucky had 91 yards of total offense […]
Cole wrote your weekend rooting guide yesterday, which, fine, if you want to root for Alabama, go for it I guess. Cole also did not include all the important stuff, like MACtion, FCS, Division II, Division III, and NAIA playoff games in the open thread, so here’s the full viewing guide for Saturday that includes […]
7-0 (0-0) AP/Coaches: NR/NR Creme: Next Four Out November 29, 2025 11:00AM CT at UVI Sports & Fitness Center ESPN+ | Radio Call | Live Stats 7-0 (0-0) AP/Coaches: 17/17 Creme: 5-seed We shot out ahead of the Beavers, allowed them to close the gap a little bit before the half, and then outscored them […]
Well, this is definitely the biggest Vanderbilt-Tennessee game in a long time. Vanderbilt heads to Knoxville today looking for its first win over the Vols since 2018 — and looking for its first ten-win season in school history, along with possibly maybe a playoff berth? That looks less likely after yesterday’s results (which saw Utah […]
At noon, Vanderbilt goes for the championship of the Battle 4 Atlantis, and gets a rematch of last season’s NCAA Tournament first-round game. Saint Mary’s erased a 12-point second-half deficit to eliminate the Commodores that time; Vanderbilt gets its shot at revenge today. This is the first time of the 2025-26 season that Vanderbilt will […]
So here’s the deal. We are on the outside looking in, but we are looking in through a wide open window. I am going to walk us through the playoff picture, team-by-team, scenario-by-scenario, to see what Vanderbilt’s real chances at making it in are, and where would land in the postseason landscape, whether we make […]
Well, this is very different from the last time Vanderbilt won nine games in a season: I really doubted that Lea was ever seriously considering going anywhere, but with Vanderbilt having a 9-2 record going into tomorrow’s regular-season finale at Tennessee and still technically having playoff hopes, the university has reportedly finalized a contract extension […]
4-1 (0-0) AP/Coaches: NR/NR Creme: First Four Out November 27, 2025 7:00PM CT at UVI Sports & Fitness Center SEC ESPN+ | Radio Call | Live Stats 6-0 (0-0) AP/Coaches: 17/17 Creme: 5-seed I forgot to post a thread for the Tennessee State game, which is fine because TSU forgot to show up for the […]
It was another good week for the staff with no one missing more than they hit. Import, already in the lead, extended his advantage by going 7-1. Tom, Cole, and I all went 5-3. Andrew, Christian, and the Commentariat all went 4-4. Overall, that put the stat at 30-18 for the week and 381-351 for […]
Letters… we get letters… we get stacks and stacks of letters… Question from Wonderhill: A friend of mine told me a story about him going on a dream vacation, one he’d saved up for and anticipated for a long time. He got there, and while leaning on the balcony rail, looking at the beautiful view, […]
Well, Vanderbilt didn’t impress yesterday in the first game of the Battle 4 Atlantis, but they got past Western Kentucky 83-78. That gives us a semifinal matchup in the Battle 4 Atlantis against VCU. I’m pretty sure last time we played these guys, Jerry Stackhouse got escorted out of the building after getting ejected. Hopefully […]
The School: “University” of Tennessee Record: 8-3 (4-3 in the SEC) Ranking: 19th in CFP Rankings, 18th in AP, and 18th in Coaches’ Poll. SP+ also has THEM at 14th. Mascot: Smokey, both a mascot and live Bluetick Coonhound. It has been a bad run for the hounds as Smokey XI was just announced as […]
It was a nervy Friday night on West End as Vanderbilt’s soccer team was fighting to reach not just their second Round of Sixteen in a row but also their second ever. The Commodores were immediately under pressure as a Clemson attacker got into the box then went down very easily under what appeared, both […]
Vanderbilt plays in the Battle 4 Atlantis this week, typically one of the greatest early-season college basketball tournaments, except that this year the field features Western Kentucky, VCU, South Florida, Colorado State, Virginia Tech, Wichita State, and Saint Mary’s: quality basketball teams, but hardly the big brand names that you normally associate with this event. […]
As the fifteenth seed, we beat ten-seed Mississippi State in the first round and seven-seed Georgia in the second round. Now we’re onto the quarterfinals where we face two-seed, sixth-ranked Texas A&M. The game will be broadcast on SEC Network at 3PM Central. You can find live stats here.
Post VANDERBILT Football and/or SEC Football questions in the comments here. For the first time in literally all of our lifetimes, Vanderbilt Football is 9-2 after kicking the ever loving shit out of the Jamal Mashburn Wedding Jerseys in perhaps the most complete dismantling of an SEC foe I’ve ever seen from my Gridiron Dores. […]
As Vanderbilt pursues a College Football Playoff bid and the first ten-win season in school history, longtime rival Kentucky comes to FirstBank Stadium looking to extend its own three-game winning streak. Left for dead a few weeks ago, Kentucky is 5-5 after beating the trio of Auburn, Florida, and Tennessee Tech and fighting for a […]
Vanderbilt is coming off their second and final bye week of the regular season, so we have to throw it back to November 8th for the last time the Commodores took the field. Their opponent that day was Auburn, who had fired Hugh Freeze the previous Sunday after losing to Kentucky 10-3. Auburn had not […]
Well, that was a well-timed bye week. Vanderbilt limped into its second bye week of the season after beating Auburn 45-38 in overtime; now, the Commodores are 8-2 heading into the final two games of the season. The College Football Playoff is somehow a possibility, though Vanderbilt almost certainly needs to beat Kentucky this week […]
Letters… we get letters… we get stacks and stacks of letters… Question from HoosierDore901: Is the up-tempo offensive revelation we saw yesterday something we should expect as a tool against Kentucky & THEM or was this a one time deal because of what we saw in Auburn’s defense? My fear being up tempo exposes our […]
The Vanderbilt Soccer/Lacrosse Complex will be the host for a pair of NCAA Women’s Soccer Tournament Second Round matches. The first, already underway, will be between (4) LSU and (5) Iowa. The second will see the (1) Commodores battle (8) Clemson. The main event will kick off at 6 PM Central. Tickets are $10 for […]
After a few weeks of big swings good or bad for the staff, we had the most boringly average results possible. We were a collective 23-25 with no one better than 5-3 and no one worse than 3-5. Cole was the only person to go above even while Tom and Andrew were below. Christian, Import, […]