The Bulldogs jumped out to a 23-point lead Saturday, and Texas was unable to recover in a game eventually decided by a 30-15 score.

The Bulldogs earned an emphatic 30-15 win over Texas on Saturday night and remain firmly in the College Football Playoff conversation.

Vanderbilt football had plenty of concerns from its performance against Ball State, but Diego Pavia wasn't one of them.

In the preseason, The Tennessean projected a 4-8 record for Vanderbilt. That seems likely to miss the mark. Here's a re-prediction of the Commodores' remaining six games: This score may seem low, but Vanderbilt's strategy of playing slow and chewing clock tends to keep scores − and margin of victory − down with the number of possessions limited.