The 2017 season's largest margin: Vanderbilt 42, Alabama A&M 0. A 42-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2017 — The Correction
2017 is a losing-side chapter for Vanderbilt. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Kyle ShurmurQB2,823 passing yards
- Ralph WebbRB831 rushing yards
- Trent SherfieldWR729 receiving yards
- Kalija LipscombWR610 receiving yards
- C.J. DuncanWR517 receiving yards
- LaDarius WileyS88 tackles
- Oren BurksLB82 tackles
- Jordan GriffinLB62 tackles
- Charles WrightLB9.5 sacks
- Dare OdeyingboDL4.5 sacks
- Dayo OdeyingboDL2.5 sacks
Season leaders, 2017.
The season's deepest loss: Vanderbilt 0, Alabama 59. A 59-point margin the season is remembered by.
"The League called it a scheduling accident; the program calls it a standard."
2017 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.