Here was irrefutable proof the Nick Saban era is over for the Crimson Tide: an uninspired loss to a team that had never beaten a top-five opponent.
On the third floor of the Tuttle Garage across the street from Ohio Stadium on Saturday night, four Ohio State Buckeyes fans were huddled around the tail bed of a white Toyota Tacoma. A bag of Fritos and a few soft drinks were nearby, but they never took their eyes off the iPad they had set up.
Similar scenes were assuredly playing out around the nation. At other stadiums. In living rooms. At sports bars. America stopped what it was doing and became riveted to a game nobody was talking about when the day began—Vanderbilt 40, Alabama 35 was simply inconceivable. An inspired Vanderbilt team opened the season by upsetting the Virginia Tech Hokies, moved to 2–0 against FCS Alcorn State—then walked into an ambush against the Georgia State Panthers of the Sun Belt Conference. They dropped a 36–32 upset and it very much seemed to be a Same Old Vandy situation. The Dores followed that with a hard-fought loss at Missouri, then had an open-date advantage while Alabama played that slugfest with Georgia.
This was Vanderbilt’s biggest non-academic contribution to the SEC since James Franklin left for Penn State in 2013—at least. The Dores helped all the other league members who are jockeying for position to make the SEC championship game. Pavia led the perennial lightweight NMSU program to a 10-win season last year, then hit the portal and immediately injected some competitive attitude into the Vanderbilt program. That has showed up on the field to a remarkable degree. Against Alabama, Pavia kept making big play after big play as Vanderbilt kept moving the ball and kept scoring against a bewildered Bama defense.
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