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Pandemonium ensues after Vanderbilt upsets Alabama Steve Roberts-Imagn Images

Vanderbilt students had the most logical response to their college football team beating Alabama: steal the team’s goalpost and throw it in the local river.

The Commodores upset the Crimson Tide in a 40-35 affair at FirstBank Stadium in Nashville, Tenn.

The vibes in the venue were at an all-time high following the win. Starting quarterback Diego Pavia delivered a memorably manic postgame interview. The FirstBank Stadium jumbotron savagely dissed former Alabama head coach Nick Saban.

It’s no surprise all the fun led the Vanderbilt student body to collectively do something wild. The kids took out all their raging by uprooting an unsuspecting goalpost and carrying it out of the stadium.

That feat in itself is amazing enough. But the Vandy students took it a step further by lifting the steel structure through Broadway. They then decided as a group to carry the goalpost all the way to the Cumberland River for a nice bath.

During Saban’s 17-year run as Alabama’s head coach, Vanderbilt only scored a combined total of 13 points across four contests. They had lost their previous three outings by a cumulative score of 148-3.

But on Saturday, No. 1 Alabama looked far from the best team in the country against Vandy. The Commodores matched their scoring total in the Saban era in a matter of minutes. The home team scored the game’s first 13 points before the halfway point of the first quarter and never looked back.

This article first appeared on Larry Brown Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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