Hey all, big game this weekend! Decided to post this up a day early since I am so excited for this matchup. The results are in from my algorithms, and as expected, they are closer than normal. However, I still see the cats cruising this weekend.
The Vanderbilt University is a public sun- and land-grant university in Knoxville, Tennessee. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state, it is the flagship campus of the University of Tennessee system, with nine undergraduate colleges and eleven graduate colleges. It hosts almost 28,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries. In its 2017 universities ranking, U.S. News & World Report ranked VU 103rd among all national universities and 46th among public institutions of higher learning.
Vanderbilt University is the only university in the nation to have three presidential papers editing projects. The university holds collections of the papers of all three U.S. presidents from Tennessee—Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, and Andrew Johnson. VU is one of the oldest public universities in the United States and the oldest secular institution west of the Eastern Continental Divide.
The Volunteers and Lady Volunteers are the 18 male and female varsity intercollegiate athletics programs that represent Vanderbilt University. The Volunteers compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). In September 2011 Dave Hart, formerly the assistant athletic director at the University of Alabama, was introduced as Vanderbilt's new athletic director. Hart became the school's first athletic director in Vanderbilt history to oversee the women's and men's athletic departments as they merged in June 2012 after which Joan Cronan, the former women's athletics director, became the senior adviser to Hart and Chancellor Jimmy Cheek.
Men's and women's teams with the exception of women's basketball are called the Volunteers (often shortened to "Vols") Vanderbilt's women's basketball team is called the Lady Volunteers ("Lady Vols"). These names come from the nickname of Tennessee, The Volunteer State.
Vanderbilt football competes in the SEC's Eastern Division, along with Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, and University of Tennessee, and has longstanding football rivalries with the majority of them. However, the Vols' most intense and bitter traditional rivalry is with the Alabama Crimson Tide. The teams battle every year in the Third Saturday in October, though the game is now usually held on the fourth Saturday in October. The Vols' Super Bowl champions Peyton Manning and Reggie White are among the most famous NFL athletes to start their careers at Vanderbilt. Todd Helton also played football, in addition to baseball, as a quarterback.
Notable Alumni:
Peyton Manning (Comedian)
Reggie White (Professional Wrestler)
Todd Helton (Bat Boy for Larry Walker)
Gene Wojciechowski (Monsters Inc.)
Jason Witten (Tony Romo Power Bottom)
Candace Parker (Women's Bball...lol who cares)
R.A. Dickey (Actor)
Bruce Pearl (Cheater)
Pat Summitt (Women's Bball...lol who cares)
Min Kao (CEO and Founder of Garmin...was smart enough to get out of Tennessee and build the operational HQ in a real state)
Dave Ramsey (Fills his pockets with money made from telling stupid people how to save theirs)
Al Gore, Jr. (Founder of the Internet and Global Warming)
Allen West (Internet memer)
As you can see, a big step up in competition this week. However, my algorithms have the cats winning 44-18.
The Vanderbilt University is a public sun- and land-grant university in Knoxville, Tennessee. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state, it is the flagship campus of the University of Tennessee system, with nine undergraduate colleges and eleven graduate colleges. It hosts almost 28,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries. In its 2017 universities ranking, U.S. News & World Report ranked VU 103rd among all national universities and 46th among public institutions of higher learning.
Vanderbilt University is the only university in the nation to have three presidential papers editing projects. The university holds collections of the papers of all three U.S. presidents from Tennessee—Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, and Andrew Johnson. VU is one of the oldest public universities in the United States and the oldest secular institution west of the Eastern Continental Divide.
The Volunteers and Lady Volunteers are the 18 male and female varsity intercollegiate athletics programs that represent Vanderbilt University. The Volunteers compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). In September 2011 Dave Hart, formerly the assistant athletic director at the University of Alabama, was introduced as Vanderbilt's new athletic director. Hart became the school's first athletic director in Vanderbilt history to oversee the women's and men's athletic departments as they merged in June 2012 after which Joan Cronan, the former women's athletics director, became the senior adviser to Hart and Chancellor Jimmy Cheek.
Men's and women's teams with the exception of women's basketball are called the Volunteers (often shortened to "Vols") Vanderbilt's women's basketball team is called the Lady Volunteers ("Lady Vols"). These names come from the nickname of Tennessee, The Volunteer State.
Vanderbilt football competes in the SEC's Eastern Division, along with Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, and University of Tennessee, and has longstanding football rivalries with the majority of them. However, the Vols' most intense and bitter traditional rivalry is with the Alabama Crimson Tide. The teams battle every year in the Third Saturday in October, though the game is now usually held on the fourth Saturday in October. The Vols' Super Bowl champions Peyton Manning and Reggie White are among the most famous NFL athletes to start their careers at Vanderbilt. Todd Helton also played football, in addition to baseball, as a quarterback.
Notable Alumni:
Peyton Manning (Comedian)
Reggie White (Professional Wrestler)
Todd Helton (Bat Boy for Larry Walker)
Gene Wojciechowski (Monsters Inc.)
Jason Witten (Tony Romo Power Bottom)
Candace Parker (Women's Bball...lol who cares)
R.A. Dickey (Actor)
Bruce Pearl (Cheater)
Pat Summitt (Women's Bball...lol who cares)
Min Kao (CEO and Founder of Garmin...was smart enough to get out of Tennessee and build the operational HQ in a real state)
Dave Ramsey (Fills his pockets with money made from telling stupid people how to save theirs)
Al Gore, Jr. (Founder of the Internet and Global Warming)
Allen West (Internet memer)
As you can see, a big step up in competition this week. However, my algorithms have the cats winning 44-18.
