The 1990 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented

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in the 1990 NCAA Division I-A football season as a member of the

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(SEC). The Commodores were led by head coach

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in his fifth season and final season at his Alma mater. With a record of one win and ten losses (1–10 overall, 1–6 in the SEC). This was Vanderbilt's 101st year of playing football. It took Vanderbilt 50 years to make it to the 100 loss mark, and in the next 50 years Vanderbilt, would lose another 300 football games. In Vanderbilt's 3rd game of the 1990 season they lost to

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for the school's 400th all time loss.

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