As Bill Connelly mows through his season preview series, it’s going to be a while before he comes to the SEC and Vanderbilt.
But we have his preseason S&P+ projections from February, which have Vanderbilt as the 75th-best team in FBS with a rating of -1.0 (0 is exactly average.) We’ve taken the projected spreads (using 3.5 points for homefield advantage) and plugged them into a spread-to-moneyline converter to get the likelihood of winning each game. The results:
- #83 Middle Tennessee State (Sept. 1): Projected spread: 5.4 points; odds of winning: 65%
- #101 Nevada (Sept.