There are, exactly, two things we know about the 2021 Vanderbilt football team.
- It is not coached by Derek Mason.
- It will not play a schedule consisting entirely of SEC teams.
Therefore, it is reasonable to think that Vanderbilt will win a football game this season. But what of its season opener? Vanderbilt enters the 2021 season having lost ten games in a row, but ironically, the Commodores will open the season by facing the last team they beat: the East Tennessee State Buccaneers, 38-0 losers to our Commodores back on November 23, 2019.