Vanderbilt is now guaranteed to have a worse record than last year. Dropping to 2-8 with games at South Carolina and Tennessee ahead of them, this season now has to be considered an unequivocal disappointment. A miracle finish that included 3 SEC wins might have been enough to spur similar energy to last year’s two late wins over Florida and Kentucky, but most of the same issues that plagued this team all season showed up again. Most of them are down to coaching, too.
Lessons We Are Learning
There are two slight glimmers of progress from season’s start to this point.