The Unofficial Vanderbilt Commodores Blog * Now With Fewer Law Degrees!
Vanderbilt comes back from Christmas break to close out its nonconference schedule against New Haven. Did you know there was a University of New Haven? Of course you did, it’s called Yale. Okay, okay, this is a different University of New Haven. New Haven is in its first year in Division I. They’re 5-7, but […]
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Letters… we get letters… we get stacks and stacks of letters… Question from Kslaught: Iowa does appear to have a good defense. Teams like this have given us some problems this year. Will we be able to score on them enough to win? Answers from AoG: PatrickSawyer: Vanderbilt is the 8th highest scoring offense in the […]
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Post VANDERBILT Football and/or SEC Football questions in the comments here. Like many of you, I’ll be heading down to Tampa—despite my intense hatred of all things Jorts—to watch Diego and the Boys’ Last Stand (Dirty Mike can’t come). We’re playing Iowa, so they’ll try to win a race to 0-0, while we’ll go for […]
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A recurring theme on Twitter lately has been fans of other SEC schools discounting Vanderbilt basketball — currently undefeated and ranked 11th in the AP Poll, 8th in KenPom, and 6th in the NCAA’s NET rankings, higher than any other SEC team in all three — because of its nonconference schedule. This is one of […]
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Well, it was ugly, but Vanderbilt managed to survive a trip to Memphis on Wednesday. And now comes the second-to-last basketball game of 2025, with Vanderbilt crossing over the Blue Ridge today and going to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where our old gold and black friends from the ACC are 9-3 under sixth-year head coach Steve […]
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So yesterday, in the College Football Playoff, Tulane lost to Ole Miss 41-10 and James Madison lost to Oregon 51-34. Let’s be clear: Vanderbilt is the little guy and always will be. Our conference membership means we’re technically aligned with the “big boys” but no, we’re not. If you are taking the Alabama/Texas side of […]
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0-7 (0-0) AP/Coaches: NR/NR NET: 317 Creme: Out December 20, 2025 1:00PM CT at Memorial Gymnasium SECN+ | Radio Call | Live Stats 11-0 (0-0) AP/Coaches: 13/11 Creme: 3-seed Oops! Look, it’s the holidays. I didn’t think we would be playing Albany (who we nearly doubled up) so soon after USF. Anyways, Texas Southern is […]
10 days ago | 1 read
Andrew finally caught Import, who has stumbled the last 2 weeks. Nobody did spectacularly well, but Cole, Tom, Andrew, and you NERDS all were 5-3. I was on the opposite side of that coin at 3-5. Import was a disappointing 2-6. Christian was an abysmal 1-7. Overall, the staff went 21-27. Overall, we are still […]
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Vanderbilt looks to make it 11 straight wins to open the 2025-26 season as they head three hours down I-40 to Memphis tonight. Memphis State is a disappointment early this season, with a 4-5 record and most recently losing 99-73 at Louisville on Saturday. Then again, there’s always talent there so you never know when […]
13 days ago | 1 read
6-4 (0-0) AP/Coaches: NR/NR NET: 69 Creme: Out December 15, 2025 7:30PM CT at Memorial Gymnasium SECN+ | Radio Call | Live Stats 9-0 (0-0) AP/Coaches: 15/14 Creme: 4-seed The SEC won the SEC/ACC Challenge 13-3 because it just means more, but it meant the most to Mikayla Blakes, who SEC Network selected as the […]
16 days ago | 1 read
Remember when the Heisman ceremony used to be appointment viewing? Ah, the 2000s. These days I have to Google to even know what time the ceremony is on (6 PM CT, on ABC.) Also, remember when the Heisman ceremony every year would invite four generic quarterbacks and pick one of them? Well, this year, Diego […]
17 days ago | 2 reads
Something that seemed unbelievable to start the season has happend. A 10-2 Vanderbilt is not in the College Football Playoff because maybe the 3rd best team in the ACC, whose champion is 8-5 Duke, and Alabama, who just got Dawg-walked by Georgia by 28-7 in the SEC championship had to be in or ESPN would […]
23 days ago | 1 read
The specific asinine nature of the College Football Playoff selection process has come out over the past week, and no, it’s not just because they’re going to leave Vandy out of it. Okay, partly because of that. But not completely. As conference championship weekend unfolds, we have two games serving as proof that the conference […]
24 days ago | 3 reads
The standings tightened slightly at the top thanks to an off week from Import (4-7) while Andrew was 8-3. It is just a 3-game lead now. Cole may be in striking distance through bowl season, but he is still 6 back after going 5-6. I am tied with you rabble after my 7-4 closed the […]
25 days ago | 2 reads
It’s December 3. Vanderbilt men’s basketball is 8-0 and ranked 17th in the country. Somehow, this is not anywhere close to the biggest story with Vanderbilt athletics on December 3. For instance, the basketball team has to win two more games just to match the football team. Anyway, my wife spent a year at SMU […]
27 days ago | 3 reads
Wynona’s got herself a big brown beaverAnd she shows it off to all her friendsOne day, you know, that beaver tried to leave herSo she caged him up with cyclone fence Sorry… let me put my bass guitar away and get back to sports. Since NoHo Clark and the Boys flipped 5* QB Jared Curtis […]
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6-2 (0-0) AP/Coaches: NR/NR NET: 34 Creme: Last Four In November 29, 2025 4:00PM CT at Memorial Gymnasium ESPN+ | Radio Call | Live Stats 8-0 (0-0) AP/Coaches: 15/17 Creme: 4-seed Mr. Donuts Charlie “Crispy” Creme is now projecting Vanderbilt to host the first rounds of the tournament. We’ve come arguably even a longer way […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
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 […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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