First Pac 12 opponent since 1961?!?

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First Pac 12 opponent since 1961?!?

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Vanderbilt Football tweeted this today:
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Given that other SEC teams occasionally play these intersectional games, 60 years seems like a long time for VU not to have played a Pac 12 team -- especially Stanford or Cal-Berkeley.


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FayetteDore wrote: Tue Sep 14, 2021 3:38 pm Given that other SEC teams occasionally play these intersectional games, 60 years seems like a long time for VU not to have played a Pac 12 team -- especially Stanford or Cal-Berkeley.
Not only is this the first Pac-12 opponent we've played since 1961, it's only the second Pac-12 program we've ever played. The only other was UCLA, the 28-21 loss in '61 in Los Angeles.
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That is pretty nuts. So much for using football to publicize our brand on the West Coast.
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Wow.
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I suspect there are only a small minority of the West Coast population that knows where Vanderbilt is even located. That is rather sad, and can only be blamed on a lack of effort to spread the message. I understand that academics is the prime objective of the university, but athletics can be a means to advance the notoriety and standing of an institution as well.
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