DeBoer took the Alabama job to be The Guy After The Guy, inviting the comparisons to the greatest college football coach of all time, and he was always going to be raked over the coals by fans whenever his first loss came. But his first loss wasn’t supposed to be this, a setback arguably worse than any loss Saban suffered with the Tide.

Down goes number one! The Vanderbilt Commodores pulled off a shocking upset at home Saturday beating the Alabama Crimson Tide 40-35. Vanderbilt had never beaten the number-one team in the country and Alabama had lost just once in their last 124 games against unranked opponents.