Week 8 of SEC action has officially arrived, and it is set to feature several high-stakes showdowns from some of the conference’s top contenders, and that includes a rare top-25 meeting between the LSU Tigers and Vanderbilt Commodores.
These 2 squads will enter this pivotal midseason matchup with one conference loss apiece, and their SEC Championship Game destiny firmly in their own hands heading into the back half of their respective schedules.
ESPN analyst Bill Connelly recently dropped his SP+ projection for this pivotal Week 8 meeting between the Tigers and the Commodores, and his model is predicting a neck-and-neck affair down in Nashville this Saturday — 26.1-25.7 in favor of Vanderbilt.
ESPN’s SP+ is a predictive model that takes various statistics and historical trends and uses them to both craft power rankings for ESPN and project the outcome of any given game from week to week.
When it comes to this highly anticipated clash between the Bayou Bengals and the Commodores, Connelly’s model is projecting a Vanderbilt win, but the projected margin of victory for the Commodores is just 0.4 points.
This just goes to show how evenly matched the SP+ views these 2 squads as being, and if things end up being as tight as Connelly’s model is projecting they will be, then this could end up being an all-time classic in Nashville.
