Vanderbilt and Missouri square off in one of the SEC’s three ranked-on-ranked matchups as college football’s Week 9 action kicks off, so let’s lock in our final

Nate Bargatze opened his time on "College GameDay" by urging five-star quarterback Jared Curtis, a Nashville Christian senior star, to flip from Georgia to Vanderbilt. And Bargatze ended it by emphatically picking Vanderbilt to beat Missouri on Oct. 25 in a key SEC football game with College Football Playoff implications.

According to SP+, the Tigers grade out as the eighth-best team in the country, boasting the 11th-best offense and No. 20-ranked defense. That defense will be tested against Vandy’s prolific offense, but Mizzou’s attack should have some success against the Commodores’ defense, which is not on par with most of the other contenders in the SEC.

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