I was listening to the Vandy-Tennessee game last night on XM Radio driving home from our game. Early in the third quarter Vandy had a long TD called back because of a clipping penalty. The UT radio announcers got going on a tangent about how when they reviewed the video of Vandy before this game there were a bunch of incidents in which Vandy offensive linemen had been diving into the backs of the knees of defensive linemen in their earlier games (resulting in several shoving matches). They also said that the incident in last night's game that resulted in the clipping penalty was one of the dirtiest things they had seen in a football game in some time.
Now, bearing in mind that college radio networks aren't an unbiased source (Bob Harris at Duke, anyone?), I'm wondering if there is anything to this. I haven't seen enough of Vandy to know, but are they in fact dirty in some of their blocking techniques?
On another note, I did get to see the end of the game/overtime, and the Vandy players looked totally disconsolate coming off the field. I'm betting we'll get a really good effort from them next Saturday, so we need to come ready to play.