From the outside, Vanderbilt head coach Derek Mason looks fantastic at SEC media day. His Commodore-gold blazer is par for the course.

But it’s what’s on the inside that counts. Mason took off his jacket in Hoover and revealed this beauty:

Coach Mason wins best-dressed at SEC media day by a landslide. Even if Steve Spurrier and his signature visor weren’t retired, he’d have some stiff competition.

Mason and the Commodores will kick off their season against SEC rival South Carolina on September 1.

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Joe Boozell has been a college basketball writer for NCAA.com since 2015. His work has also appeared in Bleacher Report, FOXSports.com and NBA.com. Joe’s claim to fame since joining NCAA.com: he’s predicted the correct national championship game twice… and picked the wrong winner both times. Growing up, Joe squared off against both Anthony Davis and Frank Kaminsky in the Chicagoland basketball scene. You can imagine how that went.

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