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Vanderbilt Commodores

The SEC on Thursday night revealed its schedule for 2026, the first with a nine-game conference schedule. Here are our takeaways.

The conference is better off with one division, which has led to better matchups even if it means minor headaches.

Fans are mad again, but this time it isn't all about the format — its about the people running it.

The season started with a QB's dad fighting the QB's brother and included the banning of tortillas, among many other bizarre things.

Sign of the times: No. 1 Indiana has more representatives (five) on our All-America teams than any single SEC team.

This final straw poll featured the narrowest gap of the season between first and second place.

After another controversial CFP release day, it's worth checking on how an idea that didn't get very far earlier this year would have fared.

Love tallied 1,652 scrimmage yards, Mendoza led Indiana to the CFP's No. 1 seed and Pavia carried Vanderbilt to its first 10-win season.

Vanderbilt coach Clark Lea explained why the Commodores will play in the ReliaQuest Bowl against Iowa after missing out on the CFP.

If the committee had followed my ranking process and my results, they could have avoided many of their problems.

No team should be as aggrieved as Florida State in 2023, but a few fan bases can be angry their teams were left out Sunday.

The field should always be selected by humans. The fix is more access. More explanation. More transparency. More accountability.

Here's college football's 2025-26 bowl schedule, which begins on Dec. 13 and extends into January.

After some unexpected outcomes on championship weekend, the bowl schedule has been thrown into flux.

Kramer became SEC commissioner in 1990, after 12 years as Vanderbilt's athletic director, and ran the league until his retirement in 2002.