Vanderbilt was in a couple of their college football columns today...
Vanderbilt: No program in the country is as reliably awful in crunch time as the Commodores. Year after year, coach after coach, recruiting class after recruiting class, Vanderbilt’s ability to lose winnable games is as consistent as the sunrise. The Commodores had their chances to register a huge win at Missouri on Saturday, but kicker Brock Taylor missed a 50-yarder with 3:06 remaining for the lead in regulation and a 31-yarder to extend the game to a third overtime as Vanderbilt lost a Missouri, 30-27. And it’s not like Taylor is a bad kicker: He made a 57-yarder earlier in the game but just couldn’t connect when the pressure was on. This is just what happens at Vanderbilt, where head coach Clark Lea is now 2-23 in the SEC.
Fourth Down: The rise of ... Vanderbilt?
Diego Pavia deserves better. Better than a hooked chip shot field goal in an overtime loss to Missouri. Better than the Vanderbilt defense folding with a minute to play in last week’s loss to Georgia State, and giving up a 75-yard game-winning touchdown drive in 55 seconds.
Vanderbilt – yes, Vanderbilt – should be 4-0, and we should all be celebrating the most impactful transfer quarterback of 2024 instead of lamenting same ol’ Vandy.
More impactful than Dillon Gabriel or Will Howard or Riley Leonard ― all of whom landed on ready-made championship teams. Pavia has elevated one of the worst Power Four conference teams into the land of respectability.
But for a missed 31-yard field goal against Missouri, Vanderbilt could have eventually earned another significant upset (Virginia Tech) in the first month of the season behind the quarterback who last went viral for urinating on a rival’s practice field.
Vanderbilt: No program in the country is as reliably awful in crunch time as the Commodores. Year after year, coach after coach, recruiting class after recruiting class, Vanderbilt’s ability to lose winnable games is as consistent as the sunrise. The Commodores had their chances to register a huge win at Missouri on Saturday, but kicker Brock Taylor missed a 50-yarder with 3:06 remaining for the lead in regulation and a 31-yarder to extend the game to a third overtime as Vanderbilt lost a Missouri, 30-27. And it’s not like Taylor is a bad kicker: He made a 57-yarder earlier in the game but just couldn’t connect when the pressure was on. This is just what happens at Vanderbilt, where head coach Clark Lea is now 2-23 in the SEC.
Fourth Down: The rise of ... Vanderbilt?
Diego Pavia deserves better. Better than a hooked chip shot field goal in an overtime loss to Missouri. Better than the Vanderbilt defense folding with a minute to play in last week’s loss to Georgia State, and giving up a 75-yard game-winning touchdown drive in 55 seconds.
Vanderbilt – yes, Vanderbilt – should be 4-0, and we should all be celebrating the most impactful transfer quarterback of 2024 instead of lamenting same ol’ Vandy.
More impactful than Dillon Gabriel or Will Howard or Riley Leonard ― all of whom landed on ready-made championship teams. Pavia has elevated one of the worst Power Four conference teams into the land of respectability.
But for a missed 31-yard field goal against Missouri, Vanderbilt could have eventually earned another significant upset (Virginia Tech) in the first month of the season behind the quarterback who last went viral for urinating on a rival’s practice field.
