Halfway though Derek Mason's third year at Vanderbilt, the general consensus was that he was once again losing his team and Vandy was just same old Vandy.
The Commodores, considered by some to be a bowl team in 2016, were sitting at 2-4 with a bad opening loss to a less talented South Carolina team and a blowout loss to Georgia Tech on their resume. Back-to-back losses to Florida and Kentucky amounted to defeats by a combined 14 points.
The defense left everything it could on the field, and the offense did everything it could to keep that defense on the field.