Vanderbilt Commodores
FBS
Southeastern Conference · VAN
Team Vitals
+21.8
power · 2026 · #28 D1
+11.2 / +10.6
off / def (higher = better)
2–0
2026 record
117
roster (2026)
Team profile 2025 · vs 136 FBS teams
Percentile against every FBS team, from 2025 play with garbage time excluded. No 2026 game has been played yet, so this describes last season.
- Win rate 85%ile 0.769
- Offense (PPA/play) 99%ile 0.449
- Defense (PPA allowed) 45%ile 0.169
- Offensive success rate 98%ile 0.523
- Defensive success rate allowed 65%ile 0.396
- Explosiveness 94%ile 1.406
- Explosiveness allowed 32%ile 1.313
- Plays per game 19%ile 56.8
median · bars right of it are above the FBS average · pace is a style, not a grade
Upcoming 2026
| Date | Wk | Opponent | Site | Model Lean |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-19 | Wk 3 | NC State FBS | HOME | Vanderbilt 71% |
| 2026-09-26 | Wk 4 | Auburn FBS | AWAY | Auburn 53% |
| 2026-10-03 | Wk 5 | Georgia FBS | AWAY | Georgia 58% |
| 2026-10-10 | Wk 6 | Ole Miss FBS | HOME | Ole Miss 53% |
| 2026-10-17 | Wk 7 | Arkansas FBS | HOME | Vanderbilt 79% |
| 2026-10-24 | Wk 8 | Kentucky FBS | AWAY | Vanderbilt 63% |
| 2026-11-07 | Wk 10 | Mississippi State FBS | AWAY | Mississippi State 51% |
| 2026-11-14 | Wk 11 | Alabama FBS | HOME | Alabama 73% |
| 2026-11-21 | Wk 12 | Florida FBS | AWAY | Florida 50% |
| 2026-11-28 | Wk 13 | Tennessee FBS | HOME | Tennessee 58% |
Recent Results
| Date | Season | Wk | Opponent | Result | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-12 | 2026 | Wk 2 | Delaware vs | W | 35–26 |
| 2026-09-05 | 2026 | Wk 1 | Austin Peay vs | W | 28–9 |
| 2025-12-31 | 2025 | Bowl | Iowa vs | L | 27–34 |
| 2025-11-29 | 2025 | Wk 14 | Tennessee @ | W | 45–24 |
| 2025-11-22 | 2025 | Wk 13 | Kentucky vs | W | 45–17 |
| 2025-11-08 | 2025 | Wk 11 | Auburn vs | W | 45–38 |
| 2025-11-01 | 2025 | Wk 10 | Texas @ | L | 31–34 |
| 2025-10-25 | 2025 | Wk 9 | Missouri vs | W | 17–10 |
| 2025-10-18 | 2025 | Wk 8 | LSU vs | W | 31–24 |
| 2025-10-04 | 2025 | Wk 6 | Alabama @ | L | 14–30 |
| 2025-09-27 | 2025 | Wk 5 | Utah State vs | W | 55–35 |
| 2025-09-20 | 2025 | Wk 4 | Georgia State vs | W | 70–21 |
Season by Season
| Season | W | L | PF | PA | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 63 | 35 | +28 |
| 2025 | 10 | 3 | 500 | 297 | +203 |
| 2024 | 7 | 6 | 355 | 304 | +51 |
| 2023 | 2 | 10 | 274 | 434 | -160 |
| 2022 | 5 | 7 | 295 | 432 | -137 |
| 2021 | 2 | 10 | 189 | 430 | -241 |
| 2020 | 0 | 9 | 133 | 336 | -203 |
| 2019 | 3 | 9 | 198 | 381 | -183 |
| 2018 | 6 | 7 | 370 | 346 | +24 |
| 2017 | 5 | 7 | 295 | 376 | -81 |
| 2016 | 6 | 7 | 299 | 312 | -13 |
| 2015 | 4 | 8 | 182 | 252 | -70 |
Injuries
Not an injury report. College football has no league-wide mandated one, and the ESPN feed we poll has carried the same three players all season — so an empty table here means nothing has been reported to us, not that the team is healthy. Nothing on this page, and nothing in our model, uses it.
Player grades 2026 season
Box production, opponent-adjusted, ranked within position (50 = positional average). OL rows are team-inferred — college football publishes no individual OL box stats. Full leaderboard →
| Player | Pos | Grade | Pos rank | G | 2026 season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Rinaldi | LB | 90 | #7 | 2 | 13 tkl · 2.0 sacks · 3.0 TFL |
| CJ Heard | DB | 87 | #21 | 2 | 14 tkl · 1 PD |
| Miles Capers | DL | 87 | #23 | 2 | 9 tkl · 1.0 sacks · 4.0 TFL |
| Issa Ouattara | DL | 76 | #139 | 2 | 6 tkl · 2.0 sacks · 2.0 TFL |
| Jayvontay Conner | TE | 74 | #37 | 2 | 10 rec · 117 yds |
| Edwin Kolenge | DL | 71 | #274 | 2 | 3 tkl · 1.5 sacks · 1.5 TFL |
| Martel Hight | DB | 70 | #260 | 2 | 7 tkl · 1 PD · 1 INT |
| Sedrick Alexander | RB | 68 | #151 | 2 | 99 rush yds · 2 TD · 3 rec |
| Junior Sherrill | WR | 68 | #224 | 2 | 9 rec · 164 yds |
| Cayden Daniels | DB | 66 | #450 | 2 | 7 tkl · 1 INT |
| Bryan Longwell | LB | 63 | #363 | 2 | 10 tkl · 0.5 TFL |
| Walter Taylor | TE | 62 | #131 | 1 | 1 rec · 19 yds · 1 TD |
| Jared Curtis | QB | 62 | #150 | 2 | 270 pass yds · 1 TD · 0 INT |
| Glenn Seabrooks III | DL | 61 | #799 | 2 | 6 tkl · 0.5 sacks · 0.5 TFL |
| Tyler Ebel | P | 60 | #67 | 2 | 7 punts · 49.6 yd avg |
| Ricardo Jones | DB | 59 | #835 | 2 | 5 tkl · 1 PD |
| Brian Allen Jr. | DL | 59 | #926 | 2 | 3 tkl · 1.0 sacks · 1.0 TFL |
| Brock Taylor | K | 58 | #118 | 2 | 2 FG · 7 XP · 13 pts |
| Carson Lawrence | DB | 55 | #1131 | 1 | 4 tkl |
| Davin Chandler | DB | 54 | #1194 | 1 | 2 tkl · 1 PD |
| Josiah Broxton | LB | 54 | #748 | 2 | 3 tkl |
| Blaze Berlowitz | QB | 53 | #280 | 2 | 178 pass yds · 0 INT · 51 rush yds |
| Makhilyn Young | RB | 53 | #556 | 2 | 62 rush yds · 2 rec |
| Talan Carter | DL | 53 | #1435 | 1 | 2 tkl |
| Austin Howard | LB | 52 | #847 | 1 | — |
| Hayden Bray | DL | 49 | #1780 | 1 | 1 tkl · 0.5 sacks · 0.5 TFL |
| Jordan Matthews | DB | 48 | #1655 | 1 | 4 tkl |
| Jaylon Stone | DL | 48 | #1815 | 1 | 3 tkl |
| Kayleb Barnett | WR | 48 | #1067 | 2 | 3 rec · 31 yds |
| Jamezell Lassiter | RB | 48 | #737 | 2 | 51 rush yds |
| Mason Lewis | DB | 48 | #1697 | 2 | 3 tkl |
| Maurice Veney | TE | 47 | #356 | 1 | 1 rec · 20 yds |
| Tristen Brown | WR | 47 | #1132 | 2 | 3 rec · 25 yds |
| Bradley Mann | DL | 43 | #2257 | 1 | 2 tkl |
| Ja'Cory Thomas | WR | 42 | #1374 | 1 | 1 rec · 17 yds |
| Brycen Coleman | WR | 41 | #1387 | 2 | 2 rec · 13 yds |
| Bryce Cowan | LB | 40 | #1391 | 2 | 3 tkl |
| Jalen Gilbert | DB | 40 | #2307 | 1 | 2 tkl |
| Mason Carter | DL | 39 | #2526 | 2 | — |
| Vanzale Hinton | DB | 34 | #2629 | 1 | 1 tkl |