The 2018 season's largest margin: Vanderbilt 41, Nevada 10. A 31-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2018 — The Correction
2018 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 ShurmurQB3,130 passing yards
- Ke'Shawn VaughnRB1,244 rushing yards
- Khari BlasingameRB401 rushing yards
- Jamauri WakefieldRB353 rushing yards
- Kalija LipscombWR916 receiving yards
- Jared PinkneyTE774 receiving yards
- C.J. BolarWR440 receiving yards
- Jordan GriffinLB119 tackles
- Dimitri MooreLB84 tackles
- LaDarius WileyS78 tackles
- Kenny HebertLB4 sacks
- Josh SmithLB3.5 sacks
- Louis VecchioDL3 sacks
Season leaders, 2018.
The season's deepest loss: Vanderbilt 13, Georgia 41. A 28-point margin the season is remembered by.
The season's last act: Vanderbilt fell to Baylor 38-45 in the postseason.
"The League called it a scheduling accident; the program calls it a standard."
2018 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.