For head coach Clark Lea, quarterback Diego Pavia and all of Vanderbilt Football — previously 0-60 against top-five opponents — it was a result out of a dream that from the outside seemed laughably too big, but from the inside … maybe not.
For Alabama, No. 1 and fresh off a thrilling victory against Georgia, it was a nightmare performance that could have postseason implications even here in the expanded 12-team playoff.
Vandy 40, Alabama 35 ... and a party in the party town of Nashville.
Lea has slowly built up the Commodores.