Vanderbilt defeated No. 1 Alabama 40-35 on Saturday. As expected – or should have been – fans at FirstBank Stadium in Nashville celebrated the Commodores' first-ever victory over a top-five team.

Not only did the crowd storm the field, but the goalposts also fell.

Once they came down, the goalposts left the stadium, carried by the cheering Commodores supporters.

Did those fans carry the goalposts all the way to Broadway in downtown Nashville, two miles away? Yes, they have. Adrenaline can do wonders for a pumped-up fan base after defeating one of college football's all-time powers.

Those fans may also have been fired up by a quote from former Alabama coach Nick Saban, who dismissed Vanderbilt as a difficult place for SEC football teams.

“The only place in the SEC that isn’t difficult to play in is Vanderbilt,” Saban recently said on The Pat McAfee Show.

“When you play at Vanderbilt, you have more fans there than they do,” he added. “This is no disrespect to them. That's just the truth.” Here's the full clip from the show:

Will the goalposts find their way into the Cumberland River like the posts that found their way into the Tennessee River after the Volunteers' win over Alabama in 2022?

Everything is possible.

Imagine being in downtown Nashville on a Saturday night and potentially seeing a crowd of soccer fans carrying goal posts down the street.

Finally, the celebration was accompanied by a police escort.

And yes, those goalposts finally made it to the Cumberland River. You did it, folks. What a night in Nashville. What a demonstration to celebrate the greatest victory in Vanderbilt football history.

On social media, fans wondered if Vanderbilt fans ever had a reason to tear down the goalposts at their home stadium.

To be fair, stadium security was probably unprepared for fans to tear down the goalposts because the staff had never faced such a scenario before.

Honestly, fans seemed hesitant about what to do at first. They didn't immediately rush across the field or immediately attack the goalposts. But that's okay. This is new, exciting territory for Vanderbilt and a certain amount of uncertainty was understandable for fans before pure joy and frenzy set in.