Notre Dame football will be taking on the Vanderbilt Commodores this Saturday in South Bend. The Commodores finished 1-7 in SEC play last year and posted a 5-7 record overall for the 2017 campaign. Vanderbilt is 2-0 on the season thus far, however, with two lopsided victories against Middle Tennessee 35-7 and against Nevada 41-10.
The points scored stands out in these contests, but so too do the points against, especially for a Vanderbilt team that gave up 346 points in conference play last year which provided for the worst in SEC history. But with 6 takeaways in two games (they had 9 total in 12 games last season) and 8 sacks (6 against Middle Tennessee alone), there has already been marked improvement on the defensive side of the ball.