College GameDay Jumps on the Vanderbilt Bandwagon

Everyone is drinking the Vanderbilt Kool-Aid after the Commodores knocked off Alabama. That includes the people on the College GameDay set.

In the “Superdog” segment, the ESPN analysts each pick one big underdog to pull off an upset. Not one, but TWO are hopping on the Vanderbilt bandwagon, former Michigan Wolverine Desmond Howard and Nick Saban.

“I’ve been getting killed all week on making comments on Vandy not being so hard a place to play, so I’m going to jump on the bandwagon and become a Vandy person and I’m picking Vandy today +13 at Kentucky,” said the former Alabama head coach.

Rece Davis acknowledged that the Kentucky defense is playing as well as anyone, even better than Bama. But in a strange twist, Kirk Herbstreit took a shot at one of his favorite programs. “Kentucky invented having a big win and then losing.”

Now we're talking! pic.twitter.com/Jco317GCa1

— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) October 12, 2024

Pregame Features Spotlight Vanderbilt

The Vanderbilt Commodores have been the talk of college football all week. That did not change on the ESPN pregame shows. The College Gameday crew traveled to Nashville to follow Diego Pavia around campus.

Meanwhile on the SEC Network, Vanderbilt head coach Clark Lea spent some time chatting with the SEC Nation crew at the Red River Shootout. This week he’s been in the spotlight quite a bit. He doesn’t want to shy away from it, but have his team double down on what went well so that they are prepared to play Saturday night in Lexington.

“We’ll understand what that result meant to us as we reflect back on it at the end of the season. What. we need to do now is try to leverage it, try to amplify it, try to pull it forward,” and build upon it. What that requires is for us to not sit here and linger on it.”

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