2023 Vanderbilt Commodores football team

The 2023 Vanderbilt Commodores football team will represent Vanderbilt University in the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 2023 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Commodores are expected to be led by Clark Lea in his third year as their head coach.

2023 Vanderbilt Commodores football
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
DivisionEastern Division
Record0–0 (0–0 SEC)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorJoey Lynch (2nd season as OC, 3rd overall season)
Defensive coordinatorNick Howell (2nd season)
Home stadiumFirstBank Stadium
(capacity: 40,550)
2023 Southeastern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
Team W L  W L 
East Division
Florida  0 –0   0 –0  
Georgia  0 –0   0 –0  
Kentucky  0 –0   0 –0  
Missouri  0 –0   0 –0  
South Carolina  0 –0   0 –0  
Tennessee  0 –0   0 –0  
Vanderbilt  0 –0   0 –0  
West Division
Alabama  0 –0   0 –0  
Arkansas  0 –0   0 –0  
Auburn  0 –0   0 –0  
LSU  0 –0   0 –0  
Mississippi State  0 –0   0 –0  
Ole Miss  0 –0   0 –0  
Texas A&M  0 –0   0 –0  
Championship: December 2023
As of May 13, 2023
Rankings from AP Poll

The Vanderbilt football team plays its home games at FirstBank Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee.

Schedule

Vanderbilt and the SEC announced the 2023 football schedule on September 20, 2022.[1][2] The 2023 Commodores' schedule consists of 6 home games and 6 away games for the regular season. Vanderbilt will host four SEC conference opponents Auburn, Georgia (rivalry), Kentucky (rivalry) and Missouri at home and will travel to four SEC opponents, Florida, Ole Miss (rivalry), South Carolina and Tennessee (rivalry) to close out the SEC regular season on the road. Vanderbilt is not scheduled to play SEC West opponents Alabama, Arkansas, LSU, Mississippi State and Texas A&M in the 2023 regular season. The Commodores' have two bye weeks this season.

Vanderbilt's out of conference opponents represent the ACC, Mountain West and SWAC. The Commodores will host two of the four non–conference games which are against Alabama A&M from the SWAC and Hawaii from the Mountain West. The Commodores will travel to two non–conference games which are against UNLV also from the Mountain West and will travel to Wake Forest from the ACC.

DateOpponentSiteResult
August 26Hawaii*
September 2Alabama A&M*
  • FirstBank Stadium
  • Nashville, TN
September 9at Wake Forest*
September 16at UNLV*
September 23Kentucky
  • FirstBank Stadium
  • Nashville, TN (rivalry)
September 30Missouri
  • FirstBank Stadium
  • Nashville, TN
October 7at Florida
October 14Georgia
  • FirstBank Stadium
  • Nashville, TN (rivalry)
October 28at Ole Miss
November 4Auburn
  • FirstBank Stadium
  • Nashville, TN
November 11at South Carolina
November 25at Tennessee
  • *Non-conference game

[3]

Coaching staff
Name Position Consecutive season at
Vanderbilt in current position
Clark LeaHead coach3rd
Justin LustigAssociate head coach/special teams coordinator/tight ends coach3rd
Joey LynchOffensive coordinator/quarterbacks3rd
Nick HowellDefensive coordinator2nd
Nick LezynskiLinebackers coach/Defensive Run Game Coordinator2nd
A.J. BlazekOffensive line coach3rd
Jovan HayeDefensive ends coach3rd
Larry BlackDefensive tackles coach2nd
Alex BaileyWide receivers2nd
Dan JacksonDefensive Backs coach2nd
Jayden EverettRunning Backs Coach1st

References
  1. Sallee, Barrett (September 20, 2022). "2023 SEC football schedule by team..." CBSSports.com. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
  2. Aria Gerson (September 20, 2022). "Vanderbilt football's 2023 schedule is complete: See the full list of opponents, dates". The Tennessean.
  3. "2023 Vanderbilt Commodores Football Schedule". FB Schedules.com. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
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