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Bowl/playoffs Coaches # AP ° Elliott Jones (Independent) (1890–1892) 1890: Vanderbilt: 1–0: 1891: Vanderbilt: 3–1: 1892: Vanderbilt: 4–4: W. J. Keller (Independent) (1893) 1893: Vanderbilt: 6–1: Henry Worth Thornton (Independent) (1894) 1894: Vanderbilt: 7–1: Charles L. Upton (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1895 ...
Ole Miss was Vanderbilt's cross-divisional rival in the SEC from 1992 to 2023. Vanderbilt and Ole Miss have played 98 times since 1894. [25] Ole Miss leads the series 56-40-2. [25] The largest margin of victory was by 91 points won by Vanderbilt in 1915. Vanderbilt also holds the longest win streak in the series (18) from 1894 to 1938.
Vanderbilt finished 1922 undefeated in one of the best seasons in Vanderbilt and Southern football history. [48] [49] The Commodores allowed no points at home. This was also the year that Vanderbilt entered the Southern Conference as a charter member. [50] Captain Jess Neely was one of the greatest ever and the team's best passer.
The 2023 season saw the tightest playoff race in history, with eight teams in plausible contention before the conference championship weekend. The eventual selection of the one-loss conference champions Alabama (SEC) and Texas (Big 12) was controversial as both teams were selected ahead of unbeaten ACC champion Florida State ; prior to 2023, no ...
The Tennessee–Vanderbilt rivalry is a college sports rivalry between University of Tennessee Volunteers and Vanderbilt University Commodores.As the SEC's two schools located in the state of Tennessee, and separated by just under 180 miles, the two schools are rivals in all sports, with the football, basketball, and baseball series being especially hotly contested.
The Vanderbilt Commodores are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Vanderbilt University, located in Nashville, Tennessee.Vanderbilt fields 16 varsity teams (6 men's teams and 10 women's teams), 14 of which compete at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC).
In addition, the team was projected by CBS Sports to win the SEC championship and to reach a No. 2 playoff seed. [18] The last game they played against Vanderbilt on September 24, 2022 saw quarterback Bryce Young throw for four touchdowns and 385 yards, defeating the Commodores with a 55–3 score. [17]
Unlike all selectors prior to 2014, the College Football Playoff does not use math, polls or research to select the participants. Rather, a 13-member committee selects and seeds the teams. [67] The playoff system marked the first time any championship selector arranged a bracket competition to determine whom it would declare to be its champion.