NASHVILLE – Two old friends will renew acquaintances Saturday at Vanderbilt Stadium.
Vanderbilt coach Derek Mason and Western Kentucky counterpart Mike Sanford worked together from 2011-13 as assistant football coaches at Stanford. Their current teams will face each other at 11 a.m. Saturday in a game broadcast by ESPNU.
Mason and Stanford enjoyed great successes during their time together with the Cardinal. The program went to three straight bowls then part of the BCS system, including two Rose Bowls, and won Pacific 12 Conference titles in 2012 and ’13.
Sanford coached running backs, quarterbacks and wide receivers at different points in his Stanford tenure from 2011-13, and also served his final two seasons there as recruiting coordinator.