When you go to the Southeastern Conference’s official website, the first thing you see is this:
Except that “every” comes with an asterisk. “13 of the 14 SEC football teams elected to play a spring game this year.”
Guess who that 1 that didn’t elect to play a spring game was? Yep, Vanderbilt.
Only... this is all about semantics. Vanderbilt will be holding a “spring showcase” on March 25, which is the last practice of the spring, open to the public, and will include Vanderbilt’s first-team offense scrimmaging its first-team defense. That sounds an awful lot like a “spring game.