Vanderbilt heads to Tuscaloosa on Saturday, and, well... this has not been a happy place for Vanderbilt historically, but you knew that.
The Commodores’ last win in Tuscaloosa — or over Alabama, period: 1984. The last time Vanderbilt scored a point against Alabama: 2007. (Okay, okay, Vanderbilt has only played Alabama twice since then. We’d rather forget the 2017 game.)
Through three games this season, Alabama has sandwiched two typical Alabama performances, a 55-0 win over Utah State and a 63-7 win over UL-Monroe, around a last-second, 20-19 win at Texas. The bad news for Vanderbilt, of course, is that while we’re significantly better than either Utah State (which also lost 35-7 to FCS Weber State) or UL-Monroe, we’re also closer to those two than we are to Texas.