This past week is the most positive I’ve felt about Vanderbilt football for a while, and that’s saying something, considering that I’m the eternal optimist in these parts (though not the Sunshine Pumper; that’s Patrick.) 63 points?! That’s something I hadn’t even been alive for before last Saturday.
And now, we get the second game of the season: tonight’s game against the Elon Phoenix, who might be a Top 25 FCS team and might be better than Hawaii, but against whom Vanderbilt is a 19-point favorite. Of course, after the last time we played an FCS team, we’re understandably nervous, because we’re always understandably nervous, because we all follow this football program.