Vanderbilt and Missouri square off in one of the SEC’s three ranked-on-ranked matchups as college football’s Week 9 action kicks off, so let’s lock in our final

Nick Saban once called Vanderbilt the easiest SEC venue, now he's jumping on their bandwagon after their historic rise.

Vanderbilt student Tyler Hwang won $500,000 on ESPN’s “College GameDay” on Saturday morning by making a 33-yard field goal during host Pat McAfee’s weekly kicking contest. McAfee also donated another $250,000 to charity, bringing the successful kick’s total to $750,000.

In 2024, Sedrick Alexander ran for two touchdowns, Randon Fontenette scored on a pick-six and Diego Pavia outplayed Heisman Trophy candidate Jalen Milroe as Vanderbilt stunned Alabama 40-35 for the Commodores’ first win over the nation’s top-ranked team.

Nate Bargatze opened his time on "College GameDay" by urging five-star quarterback Jared Curtis, a Nashville Christian senior star, to flip from Georgia to Vanderbilt. And Bargatze ended it by emphatically picking Vanderbilt to beat Missouri on Oct. 25 in a key SEC football game with College Football Playoff implications.

ESPN’s College GameDay was electric Saturday with Pat McAfee broadcasting live from Nashville and Nick Saban was unexpectedly in the mix. Saban surprised many when he publicly jumped on the “Vanderbilt bandwagon.

Lea has guided Vanderbilt to a 6-1 record entering the weekend, a stunning turnaround for a program long regarded as the SEC’s bottom-feeder.

NASHVILE—Pat McAfee stepped through the patted down grass behind College Gameday’s stage on Vanderbilt’s Wyatt Lawn and was stopped.  McAfee was the most intera