Overview
- The game is set for Saturday, Oct. 17 at 6 p.m. CT at FirstBank Stadium in Nashville and will be broadcast on ESPN2.
- Both schools enter 0-3 in SEC play with Vanderbilt 3-3 overall and Arkansas 2-4, and the loser will remain the lone SEC team without a conference win.
- Vanderbilt will start freshman Jared Curtis after Blaze Berlowitz was sidelined with a broken collarbone, leaving Curtis to lead an offense that has struggled with turnovers and penalties.
- Arkansas coach Ryan Silverfield has publicly criticized the Razorbacks' special teams and punting, and the program also carries a 14-game SEC losing streak that the team is trying to reverse.
- Sportsbooks opened Vanderbilt as a roughly 6- to 6.5-point favorite, and both teams rank in the SEC's bottom quarter in total yards and scoring while relying heavily on top receivers Junior Sherrill and Chris Marshall.