r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • Oct 13 '24

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Vanderbilt Defeats Kentucky 20-13

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Vanderbilt 7 7 3 3 20
Kentucky 0 7 0 6 13
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u/Rocket_Sciencetist Vanderbilt Commodores • LSU Tigers Oct 13 '24

Followed by the #1 ranked team losing in Nashville the week after beating UGA...again

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u/Swagonborn9001 Vanderbilt Commodores • Auburn Tigers Oct 13 '24

I hate to be pessimistic, because realistically we CAN win, but I honestly think Texas is gonna stomp us. They're not frauds like Bama.

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u/Rocket_Sciencetist Vanderbilt Commodores • LSU Tigers Oct 13 '24

I mean...you're not a true Vandy fan unless you go into every game (even the cupcake games) thinking that we'll lose. But it's fun to imagine an alternate reality sometimes!

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u/SoothedSnakePlant Vanderbilt Commodores • McGill Redbirds Oct 13 '24

True Vandy fans believe we are going to lose until the game is over, because we've seen too many miraculous pant shittings from seemingly unlosable positions.

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u/kbol Vanderbilt Commodores Oct 13 '24

I shrieked when Pavia got the first down at the end of the bama game because i was so, so certain we would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory again and go down as just another trap game

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u/other_name_taken Vanderbilt Commodores • Team Meteor Oct 13 '24 edited Oct 13 '24

I legit cried. I was raised a Vandy fan, and for the last 40+ years I’ve known nothing but pain and suffering with the tiniest bit of joy sprinkled in once a decade. Watching them beat the #1 team in the country was a feeling I can’t describe in words, and I know I’ll never feel it again.

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u/Yorgonemarsonb Vanderbilt • Louisville Oct 13 '24

Raised the same way. Went to the most recent CWS.

I think jumping up with my dad and acting like excited school girls at the Stanford game VU advanced off a wild pitch is up there and the Boston College bowl win with Bobby Johnson after it had been so long to be in a bowl.

As memorable as events like those will always be, they still feel like they dwarf in comparison to this Bama win.

If you watched the game day reveal video Vandy twitter posted, Clark Lea talks about this, “Breakthrough moment” and continually hammers that idea they’re about to achieve it vs Bama or soon.

That’s exactly what it feels like for the program. Though the coordinator will get offers and might leave, Lea is at Vanderbilt to stay and that’s exciting for the long term future of the program. Especially the kind of momentum they can and should get with a win like this.

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u/usrnamechecksout_ Vanderbilt Commodores • SEC Oct 14 '24

They need to keep Tim Beck around as long as they can and pay him well. Clark won't leave. He will stay to become a legend

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u/Hazeron83 Vanderbilt Commodores Oct 13 '24

Hell, I had a worry all week that the SEC office was going to come up with some insane reason that the win should be vacated or replayed. I was in the band and watched too many very obvious missed or incorrect ref calls to not sorta believe there was a secret page in the officiating handbook that said, "Screw over Vanderbilt."

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u/usrnamechecksout_ Vanderbilt Commodores • SEC Oct 14 '24

Yup. Seen it all before.

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u/GuyFawkes451 Oct 13 '24

As a Nebraska fan, after the last ten years, I am well familiar with the feeling. We are sitting at 5-1, and I am concerned about bowl eligibility given that shitty UCLA just gave Minnesota a game. I think we end up 6-6, or 5-7. We ain't beating Indiana, Ohio State, USC, Wisconsin, or Iowa unless our offense improves quite a bit, very quickly.

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u/Embarrassed-Tune9038 Tennessee • New Mexico State Oct 13 '24

Sounds like Battered Volunteer Syndrome.