Vanderbilt’s Brian Kimbrow, centerVanderbilt’s 40-0 vanquishing of Kentucky last Saturday at Commonwealth Stadium confirmed what Wildcats football coach Joker Phillips had professed days earlier.
This is the most complete Commodores team he can remember.
“If you look at the Vanderbilt roster, they’ve done a good job of keeping kids in their program,” Phillips said. “We’re playing against a veteran team with a lot of juniors and seniors, and that’s the one thing you haven’t seen from them in the past. They’re one of the more athletic Vanderbilt teams that you’ve seen.
“They’re doing what you have to do in this league to win, which is stop the run and run the football.”
In racking up their largest victory over an SEC foe since a 48-7 thrashing of LSU in 1948, the Commodores improved to 5-4 overall and 3-3 in league play. The four teams to defeat them — South Carolina, Northwestern, Georgia and Florida — are a combined 30-6.