FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) Vanderbilt has dedicated its season to running back Kwane Doster, who was shot to death last December while in Florida for the holidays.<br>
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The Commodores have kept Doster's locker set up.<br>
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``As far as we're concerned, he's still a member of our team this year and will be with us,'' coach Bobby Johnson said this week.<br>
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Vanderbilt's players have worn a decal on their helmets, and the Commodores will have a ceremony in Doster's honor at their home opener next Saturday against Mississippi.<br>
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Arkansas faced Vanderbilt for the first time since 1995 Saturday night. The teams won't wait nearly as long before their next meeting.<br>
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The Razorbacks will play Vanderbilt next year and again in 2010 and 2011. In 2002, the Southeastern Conference adopted a schedule format in which teams play their five division opponents, as well as one permanent and two rotating non-division opponents each season. Each school faces every SEC member at least four times during a 10-year span.<br>
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Vanderbilt freshman defensive end Steven Stone was a high school teammate of Arkansas tailback Peyton Hillis' at Conway. Their 2003 team went 11-2. ... Arkansas' matchup with Vanderbilt marked the Razorbacks' earliest start to SEC play since 2001, when they lost to Tennessee in the season's second week.<br>
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