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Predicting Vanderbilt football’s game times

While pretty much every sport plans its schedule in advance — you generally know, at the beginning of the season, what time Vanderbilt basketball’s final game of the regular season will be played — college football is different. The first three weeks of the regular season are done that way, but everything else is done a week or two before the game. That’s because the television networks that run the sport want the flexibility to decide, for example, to have a key November game in prime time instead of being stuck with what they thought would be a good game that’s actually irrelevant because one or both teams decided to have a bad season.