Of course this one came down to the wire.
Vanderbilt has now played eleven games this season; eight of them have been decided by fewer than ten points. In those games, the Commodores are 4-4, so they haven’t been exceptionally unlucky; they’ve played a bunch of close games and gone .500 in them. It’s certainly noteworthy that with the exception of Memphis and possibly this NC State team, they’ve all come against teams worse than the median SEC team; and, of course, it’s extremely noteworthy that two of those games were home games against Wofford and Grambling.