Regular season ·
Vanderbilt beat Alabama
Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.
Vanderbilt beat No. 1 Alabama by 5 points.
Alabama was No. 1 in the AP poll before the game; Vanderbilt was not ranked.
How the game turned
Q4 5:07 Vanderbilt 40, Alabama 28
Vanderbilt 77% to win
Pavia 6-yd TD pass to Johnson, Vanderbilt leads 40-28
Big moments
- 1Q1 8:46 · Vanderbilt 7, Alabama 0Vanderbilt's win chance rose from 10% to 14%.Alexander 7-yd TD run, Vanderbilt goes ahead 7-0
- 2Q1 8:03 · Vanderbilt 13, Alabama 0Vanderbilt's win chance rose from 14% to 24%.Fontenette return TD, Vanderbilt leads 13-0
- 3Q2 9:32 · Vanderbilt 20, Alabama 7Vanderbilt's win chance rose from 19% to 38%.Alexander 1-yd TD run, Vanderbilt leads 20-7
- 4Q3 2:53 · Vanderbilt 30, Alabama 21Vanderbilt's win chance rose from 23% to 49%.Pavia 36-yd TD pass to Sherrill, Vanderbilt leads 30-21
- 5Q4 5:07 · Vanderbilt 40, Alabama 28Vanderbilt's win chance rose from 50% to 77%.Pavia 6-yd TD pass to Johnson, Vanderbilt leads 40-28
Vanderbilt's lowest chance to win was 7 percent. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.
The biggest swing
With 5:07 left in the 4th quarter, Vanderbilt's chance to win went from 50 percent to 77 percent when Vanderbilt scored a touchdown.
The score went from Vanderbilt 33, Alabama 28 to Vanderbilt 40, Alabama 28.
The play: Pavia 6-yd TD pass to Johnson, Vanderbilt leads 40-28.
It was Vanderbilt's first win over Alabama since the 1984 season, after 23 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.
What happened next
Vanderbilt's next game: W 20-13 at Kentucky, Oct 12
7 days laterAlabama's next game: W 27-25 vs South Carolina, Oct 12
7 days laterThe teams' next meeting after Oct 5, 2024: Alabama 30, Vanderbilt 14, Oct 4, 2025
about 12 months later
Related pages
Scores, dates and the stage: ESPN. Win chance: our curve from play-by-play; the turn is its largest one-play change that moved with the score.