Gameday heading to Nashville

by PowerOfDixieland on Sep 28, 2008 9:09 PM CDT Comment 3 comments

That's right. ESPN's College Gameday will be live from the campus of VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY on Saturday at 10 AM ET for the matchup between #13 Auburn (4-1) and #19 Vanderbilt (4-0).

http://www.collegegameday.com/

If you had told me before the season that Gameday would be going to this game, I would have laughed directly in your face. I probably would have said the same thing if you told me Vandy would have been ranked! It's definitely not going to be a typical Vandy game. If we aren't careful, Vandy could EASILY beat us. The line is opening at Auburn -4.5 right now. I would imagine that Vandy will do a "blackout" like they did against South Carolina. Hopefully if they do that, we handle it better than we did last year against UGA.

Interesting facts about College Gameday in 2008:

Five out of the six weeks of the season, one of the two teams in the on-site game has been from the SEC.
Eight of the twelve teams featured in the on-site games have been SEC teams
Four of the six weeks have been hosted by SEC schools, while a fifth was in Atlanta, home of the SEC championship game
Alabama and Auburn both have two appearances on the show, meaning the state of Alabama has been represented in two thirds of the shows this season
This will not only mark the first time Gameday has been to Vanderbilt, but also the first time Vanderbilt has been one of the on-site teams

War Eagle!!

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Our fans are pretty excited about it

Understandably so, given how unexpected this all is. I wish I felt confident but in my brain this is like the fusion of that Alabama game last year (where I heard the local AL media talk all week about how tough VU was, and I believed it) and the Auburn game last year (where I got together a bunch of alumni to get together in Baumhower’s to watch this great battle against an inconsistent Auburn team, uggh).

I don’t think either team has the offense to make it a blowout but I’m still worried y’all will shut us down. I’d take Auburn and lay the 4’ I think.

by PhilipVU94 on Sep 28, 2008 10:30 PM CDT reply actions

I'll be there with my "PLAY KODI" sign...

Just kidding about the sign, but I will probably be there Saturday morning to enjoy my first College Gameday experience. Since I live here in Nashville, naturally this is an easy choice to make. However, I still do not have tix to the game, so hopefully I will run into someone willing to part with a few before gametime. Either way, it’s exciting to see a AU-Vandy game that actually means something. Who’d ever think this would happen? Regardless, I hope our offensive woes are fixed this week in practice and we come out more inspired than we did against UT. Make no mistake, this Vandy team is hungry and would love to add another notch to its surprisingly undefeated belt. However, in typical Auburn fashion I think Tommy-T gets our boys inspired for this battle to show that we’re not as bad as we’ve shown so far…and that Vandy doesn’t really belong in the spotlight with the big boys of the SEC. War Eagle!

by crashmattb on Sep 28, 2008 10:58 PM CDT reply actions

Good Grief!!!! I am really not sure what to think about the state of the SEC when the ESPN gameday game of the week ends up being Auburn vs Vandy, wow. Enjoy Gameday up there in Nashville, it was quite a zoo down here and even thought I did end up getting quite a few ESPN pics while they were here, don’t expect to be able to get to close to the set.

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by scottfillmer on Sep 29, 2008 6:38 AM CDT reply actions