Vanderbilt football coach Clark Lea isn't making excuses for the Commodores being on the outside looking in on the College Football Playoff (CFP).

Although he advocated for his team to be one of the 12 in the playoff, like every other coach in the situation, Lea didn't harp on his team's case after the fact, and instead, took responsibility for Vanderbilt not being quite good enough to make its first CFP berth.

“We met to kind of announce the bowl site yesterday afternoon, that was before the guys were going into the weight room to lift, and the message was just, ‘Hey, we had control over this at Alabama and at Texas,' and we did not do enough. I think it's really important that we take ownership over the things that we did have control over, rather than complain about whatever

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