Vanderbilt

Home-field advantage · Vanderbilt · 2018–present · FBS opponents

Vanderbilt is worth +1.1 points more at home than on the road.

Bottom tenth of FBS, 6th percentile of 133 programs

41% at home, 24% away against FBS opponents since 2018 (19–27 home, 10–31 away). Interval ±4.7.

Our model gives every stadium the same flat 2.3-point home edge — per-team modelling was tested and did not survive scrutiny (why) — and the books use about 3. Against the closing line, Vanderbilt has beaten the number by −2.4 more at home than away over 74 games — inside the ±7.6 that many games can resolve. Results here cannot tell the flat number apart from the building, and that is the honest reading of nearly every FBS stadium.

FirstBank Stadium seats 40,351 and has averaged 74% full (29,985, 27 games reported). Visitors cover a median 359 miles to get here since 2018 — 56th-shortest of 135 FBS venues, inside the ordinary range. 14% of the 2026 roster (15 of 111 located players) grew up inside 100 miles of the stadium.

Edge = half the gap between average home margin and average road margin, FBS opponents only, non-neutral games since 2018; the interval is 95%. Market line: closing spread, seasons with lines on file. Trip length is straight-line miles from the visiting team's campus to the venue, measured across all 54 home games since 2018.