Vanderbilt Kickers Help Fellow Students Prepare For Pat Mcafee's Field Goal Challenge

For nan first clip since 2008, ESPN's College GameDay is heading to Vanderbilt arsenic nan No. 10 Commodores hole to big No. 15 Missouri. Vanderbilt is not taking nan opportunity for granted.

Every week connected College Gameday, expert Pat McAfee hosts a kicking title and invites a student from nan crowd to effort a 33-yard section goal. If nan section extremity is successful, nan student has a chance astatine making hundreds of thousands of dollars.

So acold this season, an Ohio State sophomore, Oklahoma freshman, Penn State student and Georgia student person each successfully made section goals and cashed in. Additionally, Kirk Herbstreit won an Alabama elder $300,000 by throwing nan shot done nan uprights, while state vocalist Jelly Roll enlisted kicker Rodrigo Blankenship to make nan section extremity and donate $600,000 to Alabama charities. Through 8 weeks successful nan 2025 season, a mixed $1.85 million has been doled retired to these students and charities.

Vanderbilt is besides looking to spot 1 of their students rate successful connected nan challenge. Per The Athletic, nan school's student newspaper, The Vanderbilt Hustler, came up pinch nan thought of having nan shot team's kickers thief students effort to hole for a section extremity attempt. Their scheme was put into action connected Thursday, erstwhile kicker Brock Taylor and punter Nick Haberer held a session for students to amended their chances astatine making nan section extremity and winning nan prize.

We'll spot Saturday if nan efforts extremity up helping a Vanderbilt student locomotion distant pinch a important prize.

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