Opponent: East Tennessee State Buccaneers
Date: September 4, 2021
All-time series record: Vanderbilt leads, 1-0
Last meeting: November 23, 2019; Vanderbilt won 38-0
Last year: 4-2, 150th in Sagarin
Head coach: Randy Sanders (fourth year at ETSU, 15-15 record)
As you already know if you’ve been following our countdown to kickoff series in the Anchor Drop, Vanderbilt will play East Tennessee State on September 4 to open the 2021 football season. The Commodores enter the season on a ten-game losing streak and ironically their most recent win came against these same Buccaneers in the second-to-last game of the 2019 season, and it’s a decent bet that the Commodores will end the losing streak with a win against the Bucs.