Kickoff times announced for MTSU and Nevada

The SEC announced the television schedule for the first three weeks of the 2018 regular season on Thursday afternoon. Vanderbilt will open the season against Middle Tennessee at 6:30 PM CT on September 1, in a game televised on the SEC Network Alternate channel. The Commodores will follow that a week later with an 11:00 AM CT kickoff against Nevada on the SEC Network.

(Vanderbilt’s game at Notre Dame on September 15 does not fall under the SEC’s television contract; that game was previously announced to kick off at 1:30 PM CT on NBC.)

The season opener is the fourth game of a four-year contract between Vanderbilt and MTSU, with the Commodores winning the first three meetings by scores of 17-13, 47-24, and 28-6. Vanderbilt leads the all-time series 14-3, with the three losses all occurring between 2001 and 2005.

Vanderbilt has never played Nevada before, though the Wolfpack does have a name that some Commodore fans will know: McLane Mannix, a longtime Vanderbilt commit, was Nevada’s second-leading receiver as a true freshman.