Last Saturday will go down in history for Vanderbilt Football. The Commodores came away from their clash with No. 1 Alabama on Oct. 5 with a 40-35 victory, marking the program’s first-ever defeat of a top-5 ranked team. As the game ended, students and fans alike immediately rushed onto the field following the upset to celebrate with each other, the players and the coaches. From there, students snatched the goalpost from the South end zone and carried it nearly three miles to Broadway before tossing it into the Cumberland River.
The Hustler gathered some of X’s best reactions to the pandemonium.
FOX College Football
Aaron Grisham, Producer of 247Sports and CBS Sports
Barstool Sports
Dov Kleiman, Sports Media Personality
On3 Sports
Arye Pulli, NFL Reporter for Official Sports Place
Jomboy Media
Willie Geist, Host of NBC’s Sunday TODAY and Co-Anchor of MSNBC’s Morning Joe
The Next Round
Steve Layman, Sports Anchor at News Channel 5 in Nashville
102.5 & 106.3 The Game
Sam Shamburger, Lead Forecaster at NWS Nashville
Old Row
Andrew Maraniss, Special Projects Coordinator for Vanderbilt Athletics and Best-selling Author
Collin Rugg, Co-Owner of Trending Politics
The goalpost was retrieved from the river at about 9:45 PM CDT, just a few hours after students threw it in. Vanderbilt is now selling four and eight-inch pieces of the goalpost to fans in order to help pay for the fines it incurred from storming the field.
Vanderbilt will face Kentucky at Kroger Field in Lexington on Saturday, Oct. 12 at 6:45 PM CDT.
