Opponent: Mercer Bears
Date: September 5, 2020 (everything’s subject to change, duh)
All-time Series Record: Vanderbilt leads, 4-0
Last meeting: September 24, 1932. Vanderbilt won, 20-7.
Last year: 4-8, 210th in Sagarin.
Head coach: Drew Cronic (first year at Mercer; 47-6 overall, 4 years.)
Somehow, Vanderbilt’s season opener against Mercer will mark the first time since 2011 that the Commodores have faced an FCS team in the season opener.
Mercer is coming off a 2019 season in which the Bears went 4-8, scoring 323 points on offense (26.