Rexrode: It's time to believe in Derek Mason, question Butch Jones

Masons Vanderbilt Commodores scored the programs biggest win in many years Saturday at Vanderbilt Stadium, 45-34 over Jones 24th-ranked Tennessee Volunteers in a rivalry shootout for the record books. How many years? If youre looking for the last Vanderbilt triumph over a winning UT team, youre going back to 1982.

If you want the last win over a nationally relevant UT team, you might have to stretch all the way back to the Great Depression and General Robert Neylands 1937 Vols. Of course, nationally relevant is quite a stretch anymore for this UT team, which started the regular season in the top 10 as the clear SEC East favorite and ended it in a haze of Kyle Shurmur bombs.

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