A day after No. 2 Notre Dame earned the win of the weekend with its 31-17 worse-than-the-scoreboard-indicated win at No. 19 North Carolina, Vanderbilt offered the moment of the weekend when kicker Sarah Fuller became the first female to play in a Power Five football game with her boot to open the second half.
A day later, Vanderbilt became part of the Irish storyline and not just the national conversation when the university fired head coach Derek Mason in his eighth season, a campaign that reached a new low with a 41-0 loss at Missouri on Saturday, national and cultural breakthrough aside.