Vanderbilt

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Week 10 · updated Wednesday, Nov 4

Vanderbilt has lost five straight, its first run that long in the regular season since 2023.

Fan mood in the week of the Kentucky game: on the bright side, brighter than usual for them

Fan mood in each Vanderbilt game week this season

Compared with other fanbases in r/CFB game threads that week. Each row is a week, named for its game; the further right the dot, the brighter the talk.

sourerbrighterbefore the seasonnot enough talk to readvs Delaware W 35-26middle of the packvs NC State W 35-31on the sour sideat Auburn L 15-21middle of the packat Georgia L 14-38middle of the packvs Ole Miss L 17-52sourvs Arkansas L 21-31not enough talk to readat Kentucky L 17-34on the bright sidesourerbrighterbefore the seasonnot enough talk to readSep 12vs DelawareW 35-26middle of the packSep 19vs NC StateW 35-31on the sour sideSep 26at AuburnL 15-21middle of the packOct 3at GeorgiaL 14-38middle of the packOct 10vs Ole MissL 17-52sourOct 17vs ArkansasL 21-31not enough talk to readOct 24at KentuckyL 17-34on the bright side
  • W 28-9 vs Austin Peay
  • W 35-26 vs Delaware
  • W 35-31 vs NC State
  • L 15-21 at Auburn
  • L 14-38 at Georgia
  • L 17-52 vs Ole Miss
  • L 21-31 vs Arkansas
  • L 17-34 at Kentucky
  • Next: at Mississippi State, Saturday, Nov 7

Scores ours first.

The last two weeks

Vanderbilt lost 17-34 at Kentucky.

The whole Kentucky game

Before Mississippi State

Mississippi State has won 10 of the last 12 meetings, including the last five; Vanderbilt's last win was 31-13 in 2004.

Clark Lea and Jeff Lebby meet as head coaches for the first time.

Vanderbilt needs three wins in its last four games to reach six.

The playoff simulation gives Vanderbilt a 41% chance at Mississippi State on Saturday, Nov 7.

In the playoff simulation, the Mississippi State game has a bowl on it for Vanderbilt.

Mississippi State game on Now

What the Mississippi State game is worth

How fan mood is read

Fan mood compares what Vanderbilt fans wrote in r/CFB game threads with every FBS fanbase with enough talk that week. A week runs Monday to Sunday and is named for the game in it. The read is redrawn 300 times from the same commenters, re-ranking every fanbase each time. Sour or all in means the read sat in the bottom or top fifth in at least 70 of every 100 draws; on the sour side or on the bright side, in the bottom or top two fifths in at least 80; anything less settled is middle of the pack. A bright label also needs more positive talk than negative, and a sour one the reverse. Brighter or sourer than usual compares the week with the team's own earlier weeks, after taking out how every fanbase read that week. Each dot sits at the read's rank that week. A week read before these labels keeps the word it was first given, the fifth it sat in (sour, uneasy, mixed, hopeful or all in). Season averages are the mean of a season's reads, in fifths from sour to all in, and seasons before 2026 were read from each week's wider talk, so a comparison across seasons is rough.

Fan mood, week by week

Mood over time

Position = mood · width = volume · color = the kind of feeling

What the reporters say

What reporters say

25 quotes collected this season

What the beat said, in their own words.

Scam messages happen all the time, especially when a chat’s been quiet for a bit
Parkes · Vanderbilthustlerthe day after Vanderbilt's 2026 game against Kentucky
I usually see it with people that are selling [fake] tickets in the Vanderbilt ReUse GroupMe
Kane · Vanderbilthustlerthe day after the 17-34 game
Olivia Rodrigo is coming to Nashville in November during Thanksgiving week, and I really want tickets for that. There are people who keep saying they’re going to sell out these tickets for free. [That] never ends up happening
Subramanian · Vanderbilthustlerthe day after the 17-34 game

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Fan chatter

Fan chatterThe loudest night of the season and what a usual night looks like.

Fan chatter this season

Firestorm

The loudest night was the 35-31 win over NC State.

FirstSecondThirdFourthVanderbilt fansNC State fansusual

A usual night for Vanderbilt fans is busy.

Arguments

The argumentThe one thing this fanbase can't agree on, with receipts.

Inside the fanbase: all 6 corners

Cr/CFB
GGoogle News
LLocked On
AAnchor Of Gold
CCampus paper
BBluesky
YYouTube
7 outlets & communities talking

The split, staged

Warmest corner+0.37
National take
Most bought-in cohort
vs
Coldest corner+0.25
Local
Coolest cohort

How Vanderbilt fans actually talk

Rr/CFBFan talk

The good news: SEC Shorts finally figured out something to do with Vandy without resorting to the same exact Swaggerbilt joke for the millionth time The bad news: We eat glue now

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One of the crowd’s most upvoted takes — read for mood, not as a side. The cohort read is the measured part.

From the team’s own coverage

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Locked On

Vanderbilt’s Best Shot at an SEC Win This Season

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All 6 corners of the fanbase

negative
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positive
Local+0.25 to National take+0.37

Cohort sentiment is a source-weighted model read — never a quote pinned to a person.

What this fanbase keeps coming back to

fan energy
31%
recent results
20%
where the program is headed
15%
the coaching staff
6%
the schedule
5%

Topics are model-labeled from Reddit — a rough signal of what this fanbase is circling right now.

week 10. The sources and the divergence rank are measured. Cohort labels and sentiment are a source-weighted model estimate, never a quote attributed to a person.
ArgumentsRecurring arguments this fanbase keeps returning to.

What fans are saying

position battleLimited signal that season

fans believe Jared should be the starter

Blaze isn't really the starter. We kind of expected them to play Blaze a bit and then play Jared a bit and there's no way that I can say it without it sounding stupid.

I feel for Blaze man, but it could have been anyone. We want Jared. We won’t be happy until he’s out there

Based on 2 comments from 2 posters across 2 threads · Sep 5, 2026–Sep 6, 2026 · via CFB

program directionOne fan's take

One fan believes this play will be remembered for years

In a moment that will be cemented in college football history, Vanderbilt recovered a fumble in the end zone in the final seconds of game time to beat NC State.

Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Sep 19, 2026 · via Vanderbilt

player performanceOne fan's take that season

One fan thinks Curtis would elevate the team’s offense

Curtis looks legit and our offense is humming whenever he’s out there.

Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Sep 12, 2026 · via CFB

player performanceOne fan's take that season

One fan thinks Blaze Berlowitz needs to improve his stats

This settles it. Blaze Berlowitz needs to show whether he can match Curtis’s performance next week. It’s only fair.

Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Sep 12, 2026 · via CFB

recruiting resultOne fan's take that season

One fan believes the team is signing top-rated high school prospects

we just picked up a 4 star QB out of Texas and another 4 star Qb out of GA is very high on us as well

Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Oct 18, 2025 · via CFB

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player performanceOne fan's take

One fan believes Curtis elevates teammates’ performance

The scoreline looked mediocre but this game honestly gave me a lot of confidence for the rest of the season(well, more than last game at least). Obviously there’s plenty of stuff that needs to be cleaned up(tackling for example lol) but Curtis looks legit and our offense is humming whenever he’s out there.

Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Sep 12, 2026 · via CFB

player performanceOne fan's take that season

One fan argues Vanderbilt’s defense improves after halftime

Crazy how absolutely solid Vanderbilt’s second half was after kicking themselves in the foot with penalties in turnovers in the first half.

Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Sep 7, 2025 · via CFB

Rival talk

The obsessionThe rival this fanbase can't stop bringing up.
Rent Free · r/CFB fan posts, 2026 season
Vanderbilt fans 16% of posts bring up another team#68 of 77 saltiest · mostly about Tennessee
Who Vanderbilt fans can’t stop bringing up
  1. Tennessee3%
  2. Virginia2%
  3. Ole Miss2%
  4. NC State2%
  5. Delaware1%
share of Vanderbilt’s football posts that mention each team
Vanderbilt lives rent-free in
  1. Arkansas7%
  2. Auburn5%
share of each rival fanbase’s football posts that bring up Vanderbilt
Rivalry wordsNumbers from Words for this program and its tier-1 rival, staged side by side.
What the sport says about this rivalry 2026 season · from Words

The watchlist words in play for this rivalry, Vanderbilt vs. Tennessee, staged head to head. A number is how much a program uses that word against the average FBS program — above or below 1.0× — not raw volume, and not a claim about who says it about whom.

Vanderbilt Tennessee
The whole board →

How Vanderbilt fans talk

Who they talk aboutThe people this fanbase names more than anyone else does.
Who they talk about Against the field · 2026 season

The names this fanbase says more than anyone else does — players, coaches, the places they keep coming back to. Not slang: these are the people carrying the conversation.

Jared Curtis
×513.6 the field
Signature — named ≥10× as often as the rest of college football
Jared Curtis×513.6
Clark Lea×603.3
Blaze Berlowitz×431.2
Diego Pavia×243.6

“Looked rough last 2 games but special teams have been phenomenal. Jared Curtis its your time to shine.”

reddit/CFB · fan post
Fans on Jared Curtis
  1. Got to see my boy Jared Curtis make a cameo during the Sooners game
  2. We’re obviously terrible per usual but Jared Curtis is the best Vandy recruit of all time and has looked overall great (though young).
  3. Jared Curtis will leave at the end of the year. We are back to the old Vandy for the foreseeable
  4. Not a GA fan but not sure what Jared Curtis was thinking, think he understands now....it's Vandy. Do you want to win big games
  5. Jared Curtis. He has an incredible arm from what I’ve seen and UT being a bigger school I wonder
  6. As a UGA OG, I have no ill feelings toward Jared Curtis. He wanted to play right away and at Georgia he'd have had to wait at least a year
  7. jared curtis could start. Cough cough junior sherill. I dont care i said what I said.
  8. Corey Burton is RIGHT ON. Get Vandy on the same page with QB1 Jared Curtis. Give #2 tempo, give him ownership, and meet him where he is right now—then build
What they're calledThe slang the sport reaches for about this program more than most.
What the sport calls them 2026 season · from Words

How often college football reaches for these watchlist words about Vanderbilt — against the average FBS program, or against their own usual rate — said by rival fans and national media as readily as by their own people.

  • “aura”1.9×more than the average program · #3 of 48
The whole board →
Voice profileHow this fanbase sounds vs. every other fanbase.
Doomers
Optimism
14th
Joy
12th
Anger
87th
Doom
35th
Sarcasm
72nd
Vs the 127 highest-volume fanbases - 2026 season
Vocabulary by eraThe words that defined each chapter of this program.

Season vocabulary

2026blaze
blazecurtislinejaredrunstart
blaze took the first snap of the scrimmage
2025league
leaguetechtennesseetexasvirginiaiowa
league office protection of CFP hopefuls is all I have because historically Vanderbilt has been boned by SEC refs
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