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NASHVILLE -- Tennessee and Vanderbilt may have new coaches, but the result in this rivalry game stayed the same. The Volunteers won again, this time 24-10. With his future on the line at Vanderbilt, coach Robbie Caldwell's Commodores desperately needed a win against their in-state rival. But that was a tall order since the Commodores are just 2-28 against the Vols in the past three decades. Indeed, a victory was just too much to ask. Behind true freshman quarterback Tyler Bray, the Vols leapt out to a 14-0 lead and coasted home en route to their third consecutive November victory.
A Tennessee season that began 2-6 looks as if it may well end in a bowl game, perhaps here in Nashville, so long as the Vols can manage to beat Kentucky for the 26th consecutive year. The teams play next Saturday at Tennessee.
For Vanderbilt, this year's loss was more of the same. Yet again Vanderbilt Stadium turned into a miniature Neyland Stadium that roared with delight with each Volunteer success. Yet again Vanderbilt hung just on the periphery of victory against the Vols.
But the Commodores could never make the play, be it a field goal or a turnover, that would change the outcome, balance the scales and alter the course of football history in a series that is far from even. By Saturday evening, as the Commodores fell to 2-9 on the season, it seemed likely that Caldwell, the unlikely Vanderbilt coach, had been on the sideline as the head man for the final time in an SEC game.
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