⚡ CFB Dashboard

- Pick/market: Tied 1-1 with uk in the 3rd set.

- Pick/market: That was my first Vanderbilt road game.

- Pick/market: We ran a 5-2 a TON with him or Bradley playing a DE

- Pick/market: The second TD.

- Pick/market: The OL was a comedy of errors.

- Pick/market: 6-6 BUT s bad as the first 3 weeks have looked- its almost impossible for us to look worse.

- Pick/market: 3-9 they are bad.

- Pick/market: I’m cool with 6-6 or 5-7 this year as long as JC2 gets all his reps and learning curve out of the way this year.

- Pick/market: Clark Lea coached football teams don’t quit.

- Entering its 2026 SEC opener at Auburn, Vanderbilt has 12 sacks through three games, tied for fourth nationally according to this preview; Auburn has allowed 13 sacks. The writer considers pressure without extra blitzes possible, not an announced Vanderbilt game plan. - Vanderbilt is 13th in the SEC at 139.3 rushing yards per game through three 2026 games, and quarterback Jared Curtis led its rushing against NC State, this preview reports. Clark Lea wants more horizontal and vertical stretch to aid the run game; he did not announce a new package or running-back rotation for Auburn. - NC State converted nearly half its third downs and 3 of 5 fourth downs against Vanderbilt, versus a 26.83% third-down conversion rate allowed by the Commodores over three 2026 games. Lea challenged the defense to prevent explosive touchdowns and force field goals at Auburn; that is a goal, not a confirmed coverage or blitz change.

- Entering Vanderbilt's 2026 Auburn game, Nick Rinaldi leads the team with 4.5 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, three hurries and four pass breakups. The report highlights Rinaldi and edge Miles Capers as pressure threats on a defense averaging four sacks per game, without guaranteeing that production against Auburn. - Junior Sherrill leads Vanderbilt entering the 2026 Auburn game with 18 catches, 252 receiving yards and two touchdowns, but the report also credits him with five drops against Delaware. The production identifies a major receiving option while the drops remain a reliability concern; no changed role or target share is announced.

- Injury: COLE SPENCE INJURY - They think they'll upgrade him tomorrow (he's listed as "questionable," I think).

- Injury: Here is everything that Vanderbilt's Miles Capers said at Tuesday's availability about his forced fumble that led to the game-winning touchdown and more.

- Injury: WR screen is the play missing from the playbook that has me so mind boggled.

- Injury: Per Clark Lea, Cole Spence did some football activity today and is day-to-day.

- QB/OL: On the surface I dont get a good feeling about this one, but then again I never have a good feeling.

- QB: I still wonder if he could have been a really good college QB.

- Pick/market: If we can win in the trenches we will win the game.

- QB/OL: No offense to all of our skill players, but we have to majorly upgrade at running back and receiver next year to help Jared Curtis be the best QB possible I don’t think I...

- QB: Underappreciated, but it is a huge testament to our program that we didn't rush the field.

- QB: I love that he gave Sea Snake credit on the big play for blowing up the left side and making their QB hesitate.

- QB/LB: I will add to your theories.

- NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Vanderbilt quarterback Jared Curtis was named SEC Freshman of the Week Monday for the first time after his first career start in a 35-31 win over NC State. - It marks the 10th freshman of the week award for the Commodores. - Jared Curtis named SEC Freshman of the Week after first career start

- QB/KICKER: Dang, it's a great feeling having a QB and Kicker who can do their thing from maximum distance.

- QB: They don't trust either QB to execute it, evidently, but especially not a true freshman.

- Pick/market: Two scoring drives in 3rd Q both in just over 1 minute - that’s big time college football with a big time QB .

- QB/LB: Clearly there’s an issue with backer(s) not being in the right spot and allowing huge runs.

- QB/OL: Vandy +9.5 which is a little higher than I thought to be honest.

- QB: well for what it's worth we almost lost to a team yesterday that used a two quarterback system.

- QB: The other oddity is why in the world did the NCSU coach or quarterback think they should be running around in the end zone.

- QB: when you're a freshman you're not likely to have it all sorted out yet, and he did get to play in the first two games.

- QB: First of all, Clark doesn't call the offensive plays, that's Beck's department.

- QB: This team is not very good and looking like they’re not well coached.

- QB/LB: Hey boys, my life depends on this message being read in entirety.

- Coaching: On defensive stops: Talks about the challenge of stopping the running quarterback on third and fourth and short situations.

- QB: If I were your kid, I wouldn't listen to you about much Good one

- QB: Trevor Lawrence and a slew of other QB’s I can’t remember who have made coaches say helllo

- QB: Worst part is - those stacking again and again are what makes your freshman QB start pressing and making dumb plays.

- QB: The qb power being avoid like the plague when pavia made his living doing it is mind blogging.

- QB: Fake the pressure he looked to the hot it was taken and then played bad qb play.

- QB: @chrislee you gotta ask after the game why they stayed so aggressive when the qb was picking the pressure apart.

- QB: 2026 all American backfield : Qb CJ Bailey RBs Gauss & Silver (last week)

- QB: This team has big talent deficiencies seemingly at every position.

- Pick/market: My joke was 'man, Tristan Brown and Jared must have developed a chemistry on some of those 2nd team reps when Blaze was taking starter ones" but regardless, I'll take good WR play to...

- Intel: This is on coaching, it 100% looks like a team still trying to gel.

- Clark Lea said Vanderbilt used a field-goal-block call on NC State's final snap and told the edge players to take direct paths toward the pocket. He expected an intentional safety and wanted time for a play after the free kick; instead, Miles Capers forced the fumble Cayden Daniels recovered for a touchdown. That expectation was Lea's reading of the situation, not confirmation of NC State's actual call. - Lea credited Jared Curtis' checks, hot throws and downfield connections in his first start, but cautioned against defining Vanderbilt's offensive identity from a game spent chasing a 17-point deficit. He wanted to clean up penalties, reestablish the inside run and build around Curtis' strengths, not permanently replace the running game with a pass-first offense. - Vanderbilt finished with 13 penalties for 116 yards against NC State. On the holding problems, Lea emphasized moving feet, covering defenders and fixing technique after reviewing film; he thought Curtis generally stayed disciplined between the tackles rather than escaping into edge restrictions. Lea did not announce replacement linemen or blame all the holds on quarterback movement. - Lea said Martell was brought inside for concussion checks, responded well and returned to finish the NC State game. His description confirmed the evaluation and return that day, not a diagnosed concussion, a recovery timetable or next-game availability. The supplied remarks do not justify expanding the injury beyond that account. - Lea faulted Vanderbilt for allowing three explosive touchdowns but praised the defense's late inside-out run wall against NC State's shotgun quarterback push plays. Getting the runner down and preventing a conversion preserved the final opportunity; he highlighted the need to end those plays quickly because each additional second reduced Vanderbilt's chances.

- Defense: Getting in to a formation quickly enables Beck to call an initial play and snap quickly if the defense lines up favorably.

- OL: If I’m barton, I’m sending JC highlights to all of the top transfer WRs and OL immediately!

- OL: They said in broadcast that it’s a standard provision in the contract — visiting team from out of conference gets to use officials from their conference.

- OL/LB: Glass half empty: Defense looks bad at times, tackling has been inconsistent, receivers have been inconsistent, offensive line constantly penalized, gaps aren't being consistently opened for running backs.

- QB: gotta give our coaches and players a lot of credit in these instances: offense started gelling in 2nd half great final drive resulted in an INT (I would have run on that play too)...

- OL: If you are taking questions: at this point do you just pretty much “abandon” the power run game and utilize the same offense that we did the back half of last season since Curtis...

- OL: At this point do you just pretty much “abandon” the power run game and utilize the same offense that we did the back half of last season since Curtis look pretty good running it...

- KICKER: Bad tackling, bad offense, penalties, bad execution, bad coaching, bad special teams.

- Offense: The 4th down conversion with 8 mins to go, down 10, was huge.

- Entering its 2026 Auburn game, Vanderbilt had 12 sacks through three games, but only one came against NC State; the other 11 came against Austin Peay and Delaware, according to the Sept. 25 Auburn opponent preview. The split tempers the season total rather than establishing a new blitz plan or an Auburn result. - Vanderbilt safety CJ Heard led the team with 21 tackles and had two sacks through three 2026 games, while edge Miles Capers had five tackles for loss and linebacker Nick Rinaldi had 18 tackles and 3.5 sacks, per the Sept. 25 Auburn opponent preview. These are current production totals, not newly announced roles.

- LB: I’ve got a four year old that is a future linebacker with a neck roll I may spend this on.

- DB: the problem was Bailey was apparently told to run out the clock (or that's how he interpreted it).

- DB: I wondered who the player was who wrapped up Bailey so Capers could do his thing— kinda punching the ball the ball out and down to where Daniel's could see it well enough and...

- LB: The issue is multiple times a game, 10 players do their job well on a down to down basis and the 11th doesn’t makes the play as often as he should.

- Defense: With how bad we’ve been specifically on 3rd downs, predictably playing cover 0 and blitzing 7 guys, does Clark Lea need to take over as DC… if I’m remembering correctly he was Co DC...

- Defense: good time to bump the fact that Vanderbilt's defensive coordinator scored a touchdown on one of the most famous fumbles in football history

- DB: CJ Bailey fumbles while trying to take a safety and Vanderbilt recovers for a TD to take the lead and win the game.

- Defense: Look at the defense we run.

- QB/RB: Bad defense and 68 rushing yards from your RB.

- Intel: A lot of Relief (from the interception late), competitive fire, and passion right there.

- Practice: 1) Ricardo Jones pass breakup on the 4th down play on NCSU’s last drive was obviously a game saver 2) We played NCSUs last play from scrimmage with only 10-men on the field

- Intel: Limited edition card available until September 24th

- Intel: The actual football played in the NFL is in fact of a better quality than college football and the more college football tries to become like the NFL in terms of scheduling, gameday presentation...

- Intel: Agreed, coaching master class, smart too to save that great coaching for the last olay of the game, no one saw it coming, brilliant!!

- LB: He will not make it when Vandy beats him for the second time.

- Intel: Perhaps Beau Johnson should start at tackle, but wtf do I know

- LB: we would've won that game without the interception that occurred so I don't agree that we weren't the better team.

- Intel: We are in Montana and watched the game on the laptop in the lodge lobby waiting for our room to be ready.

- Intel: Surprised you didn’t shave your beard off by halftime !!!

- Intel: That’s exactly who has a problem and they can kick rocks.

- Intel: It’s a tired post but today has to be worst big board management I’ve ever seen.

- Intel: No, hitting the pylon means the ball can pass the goal line out of bounds for a touchdown.

- Intel: Thank you for not blitzing and for the open field tackle!

- Intel: I still think Azubuike, McConnell, Cooper, Irving (at guard damnit), and Johnson (at tackle damnit) are the best starting 5.