Two years ago, Vanderbilt went to Georgia for the Bulldogs’ homecoming game. Kirby Smart overthought a 4th-and-1 play call, Zach Cunningham stuffed Isaiah McKenzie, and Vanderbilt walked out with a 17-16 win, Derek Mason’s first SEC road win.
Now, Vanderbilt is an even bigger underdog heading into Athens (once again for Georgia’s homecoming.) The Commodores entered the 2016 game as a 14-point underdog; in 2018, against the #2 team in the country, Vanderbilt is a 26.5-point underdog. (That’s actually less than the line in the 2014 game in Athens, in which Vanderbilt was a 33.5-point underdog, but that was more a reflection of Vanderbilt being objectively terrible than anything else.