The Vanderbilt Commodores are bowling for the ninth time in school history after Saturday’s 38-13 beatdown of the hated Tennessee Volunteers. But where will the Commodores go?
Strange as it may sound, we may have to watch the College Football Playoff rankings — and the conference championship games.
There are eleven bowl-eligible teams from the SEC this year; everybody but Tennessee, Arkansas, and Ole Miss finished with six or more wins. Vanderbilt is likely the last team in the bowl pecking order. Normally we’d complain about the unfairness of that, but Vanderbilt really has little room for complaint after sneaking in at 6-6 and 3-5 in the SEC; nine of the other ten teams are 7-5 or better, and South Carolina can get to 7-5 with a win over Akron on Saturday (a makeup game for a previously-cancelled game against Marshall.