You might have heard this, but the Alabama Crimson Tide are good at football. You might even say they’re the best team in the country. The AP and Coaches polls think they are. So, too, do the S&P+ and Jeff Sagarin’s computer ratings.
This will be Vanderbilt’s eighth game all-time against the #1 team in the AP poll, and the Commodores are 0-7 in those games:
- Lost at #1 Tennessee, 13-0, on November 18, 1939
- Lost at #1 Tennessee, 35-27, on December 1, 1951
- Lost at #1 Oklahoma, 25-23, on September 10, 1977
- Lost at #1 Alabama, 41-0, on September 27, 1980
- Lost to #1 Florida, 28-21, on November 9, 1996
- Lost to #1 Tennessee, 41-0, on November 28, 1998
- Lost at #1 Florida, 27-3, on November 7, 2009
So, yeah.