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The program has had 28 head coaches since it began play during the 1890 season. [1] The team has played 1,250 games over 126 seasons of Vanderbilt football. [1] In that time, six coaches have led the Commodores to postseason bowl games: Art Guepe, Steve Sloan, George MacIntyre, Bobby Johnson, James Franklin and Derek Mason. [2] [3] Four other ...
From 1903 to 1905, the Commodores outscore opponents 372–22 and posted a 22–2–1 record. In both 1905 and 1906, Vanderbilt played seven home games, winning all of them. The only loss in both cases came on the road at Michigan. The 1905 team beat Sewanee by the largest margin in school history, 68–4.
The Commodores compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the East Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They are led by head coach Clark Lea. Vanderbilt plays their home games at FirstBank Stadium, located on the university's Nashville, Tennessee campus.
Vanderbilt head football coach Steve Sloan, right, applies a new “Vandy Football 73” bumper sticker to his own automobile with an assist from Vanderbilt Quarterback Club president Buddy Stack ...
Coach Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs Coaches # AP ° Elliott Jones (Independent) (1890–1892) 1890: Vanderbilt: 1–0: 1891: Vanderbilt: 3–1: 1892: Vanderbilt: 4–4: W. J. Keller (Independent) (1893) 1893: Vanderbilt: 6–1: Henry Worth Thornton (Independent) (1894) 1894: Vanderbilt: 7–1: Charles L. Upton (Southern ...
Vanderbilt quarterbacks have played prominent roles in American society off the gridiron as well. Irby Curry, the starting quarterback for the "point-a-minute" 1915 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, served in World War I after graduating in 1916, dying in aerial combat in France. Rand Dixon was a decorated World War II veteran.
Clark Lea (born November 11, 1981) is an American football coach who has been the head football coach at Vanderbilt since 2021. He previously served as the defensive coordinator at the University of Notre Dame from 2018 to 2020. Lea began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2006 and ...
Under previous coach James Franklin, the football program enjoyed somewhat of a renaissance; since Franklin's arrival at Vanderbilt in 2011, the Commodores have appeared in consecutive bowl games for the first time in school history (2011 and 2012), and the 2012 team posted Vanderbilt's first 9-win season in over 80 years.