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The 2016 season's largest margin: Vanderbilt 47, Middle Tennessee 24. A 23-point win — the year's high-water mark.
Vanderbilt·SEC
2016 — The Correction
2016 is a losing-side chapter for Vanderbilt. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.
Lost the Independence Bowl
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
Who carried it
- Kyle ShurmurQB2,409 passing yards
- Ralph WebbRB1,283 rushing yards
- Khari BlasingameRB449 rushing yards
- Darrius SimsWR271 rushing yards
- C.J. DuncanWR494 receiving yards
- Trent SherfieldWR472 receiving yards
- Caleb ScottWR466 receiving yards
- Zach CunninghamILB125 tackles
- LaDarius WileyS76 tackles
- Ryan WhiteS75 tackles
- Adam ButlerDL4 sacks
- Oren BurksLB3.5 sacks
- Nifae LealaoDL2.5 sacks
Season leaders, 2016.
The season's deepest loss: Vanderbilt 7, Georgia Tech 38. A 31-point margin the season is remembered by.
The season's last act: Vanderbilt fell to NC State 17-41 in the postseason.
"The League called it a scheduling accident; the program calls it a standard."
2016 sits in Vanderbilt's crisis ledger. The program does not moralise it. The next season begins the day this one ended and the crisis chapter closes when the ledger does.