How To Watch: No. 7 Tennessee at Vanderbilt
The regular-season finale is here for No. 7 Tennessee … and everything is on the line. The Vols are on the road at Vanderbilt on Saturday in a Noon Eastern Time start on ABC, seemingly needing a win to advance to the first 12-team College Football Playoff.
Tennessee (9-2, 5-2 SEC) is coming off a 56-0 win over UTEP last week on Senior Day at Neyland Stadium. Vanderbilt (6-5, 3-4) has lost three of its last four games, but earlier this season beat Alabama at home and won on the road at Auburn and Kentucky.
The College Football Playoff selection committee on Tuesday had the Vols ranked No. 8 in the CFP Top 25 and seeded ninth in the current 12-team bracket.
No. 7 Tennessee at Vanderbilt: How To Watch
Start Time: Saturday, 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.
SiriusXM: Ch. 119 or 191 | App: Ch. 961
The Line: Tennessee -10.5
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.
Vanderbilt has lost three of its last four games, losing 27-24 at home against Texas on October 26, 28-7 at home against South Carolina on November 9 and 24-17 at LSU Saturday night. Vandy won 17-7 at Auburn on November 2.
Quarterback Diego Pavia, the New Mexico State transfer, has starred for Vandy this season, throwing for 2,029 yards and 16 touchdowns and rushing for 671 yards and six more touchdowns on the ground. He had 229 total yards and two touchdowns at LSU.
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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 11 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.
