Vanderbilt defeats LSU by 31-24. Coming out of a bye week, the Commodores ended their 10-game losing streak against the Tigers. QB Diego Pavia helped Vanderbilt recover from a 35-year drought, securing their first win against LSU since 1990. Before the bye week, Pavia took the blame for the loss against Alabama, but Johnny Manziel believed in him, saying, “That is my Dawg.” The former Aggie has been repeatedly asked why he supports Pavia over A&M’s Marcel Reed, and we finally have an answer from the Heisman winner.
On the October 18 episode of Nightcap , Johnny Manziel joined Shannon Sharpe and Chad Johnson to review the Week 8 action of college football. When discussing Vanderbilt’s win over LSU, Manziel cleared up a question that was doing the rounds in college football discourse. Wh