Kickoff time, TV information announced for No. 10 Tennessee's regular-season finale at Vanderbilt
No. 10 Tennessee’s regular-season finale at Vanderbilt next Saturday will be a Noon Eastern Time start and will be broadcast by ABC. The Southeastern Conference on Monday announced the full schedule for November 30.
The Vols (8-2, 5-2 SEC) host UTEP on Senior Day at Neyland Stadium on Saturday, a 1 p.m. ET start streaming on SEC Network+. Vanderbilt (6-4, 3-3) goes to LSU this week for a 7:45 p.m. ET start on SEC Network.
Tennessee is coming off a 31-17 loss at Georgia Saturday night and will need to finish 2-0 to remain in the College Football Playoff hunt.
No. 10 Tennessee at Vanderbilt: How To Watch
Start Time: Saturday, November 30 Noon Eastern Time
TV: ABC
Radio: WNML-FM 99.1 in Knoxville (Bob Kesling, Pat Ryan, Brent Hubbs, Jayson Swain). The Vol Network radio broadcast can be heard on local affiliates across the state of Tennessee.
A Closer Look: The Vanderbilt Commodores
Vanderbilt started the season 5-2 with home wins over Alabama and Virginia Tech and a road win at Kentucky. The two losses came at Georgia State, 36-32 on September 14, and in double overtime at Missouri a week later, 30-27.
The Commodores enter this week having lost two of their last three, losing 27-24 to Texas at home on October 26 and 28-7 at home against South Carolina on November 9. In between was a 17-7 road win at Auburn.
Transfer quarterback Diego Pavia has starred for Vandy this season, throwing for 1,843 yards and 15 touchdowns and rushing for 628 yards and five more touchdowns after transferring from New Mexico State.
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Pavia had 308 total yards and two touchdowns in the 40-35 upset of Alabama on October 5. He has thrown two touchdown passes in seven of Vandy’s 10 games so far and has rushed for 50 or more yards in eight games, including a season-high 104 yards against Virginia Tech on August 31.
The Tennessee-Vanderbilt Series
Tennessee has an 80-33-5 all-time record against Vanderbilt in an in-state rivalry that dates back to 1892.
Of the 33 Vanderbilt wins 18 came between the start of the series on October 21, 1892, a 22-4 Vanderbilt win, through November 13, 1926, a 20-3 Vandy win.
The Commodores went 18-2-2 against the Vols over the first 22 meetings.
General Robert Neyland took over as head coach in 1926 and, after a 7-7 tie in 1927, Tennessee won 15 of the next 18 against Vanderbilt. The Vols are 78-15-3.
Tennessee won 22 straight in the series between 1984 and 2004, with Vandy winning 28-24 in Knoxville in 2005 to stop the streak. The ‘Dores won three straight from 2016-18 and five of seven between 2012 and 2018.
The Vols have won the last five meetings with an average margin of victory of 29.4 points per game.
