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VU Announces 2005 Football Schedule 3/6/2005 Commodores to Host Five Straight Games After Opening with Road Contests at Wake Forest, Arkansas 2005 Schedule Nashville, Tenn. – The Commodores will host five consecutive games after opening the 2005 football season with road encounters at Wake Forest and Arkansas, Vanderbilt athletic officials announced today in releasing the squad’s upcoming schedule. From Sept. 17-Oct. 15, the Commodores will host Ole Miss, Richmond, Middle Tennessee, LSU and Georgia on consecutive Saturdays. Vanderbilt’s last home game of the season is against SEC East rival Kentucky on Nov. 19th. An announcement regarding 2005 Vanderbilt season ticket prices is expected later this week. The 2005 Vanderbilt schedule follows:
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* Nashville games will be played in Vanderbilt Stadium. Kickoff times are CST
Bobby Johnson, entering his fourth season at the helm of Commodore football, said the 2005 schedule provides plenty of challenges.
“It’s a very difficult schedule, but it always is when you play in the Southeastern Conference. It definitely offers our team and all Commodore fans a lot of excitement,” Johnson said. “LSU and Georgia will come to Nashville with two of the SEC’s top teams, and Ole Miss and Kentucky should be improved from a year ago. The Middle Tennessee game also has a lot of appeal to local college football fans. This a pretty exciting home schedule.”
The Commodores open the season with two road games for the first time in seven years. The opener against ACC foe Wake Forest is a night encounter scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 1. The last time Vanderbilt visited Wake Forest, the Commodores won 17-10 in Winston-Salem, N.C. The second road game against Arkansas will be Vanderbilt’s first visit to the campus in northwest Arkansas. The Commodores’ three previous road games versus Arkansas were played in Little Rock.
The schedule features five consecutive home games for the Commodores, starting with the squad’s annual outing with Ole Miss on Sept. 17. Vanderbilt has played five straight home games only 10 times in its 115-year football history. The team’s last such home streak, in 2001, resulted from the events of Sept. 11th when the VU-Ole Miss game in Oxford was moved to Dec. 1.
Besides Wake Forest and Arkansas, the Commodores travel to three of the SEC’s largest venues with encounters at South Carolina, Florida and Tennessee.