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The 2024 Alabama vs. Vanderbilt football game was a regular season college football game between the Vanderbilt Commodores and Alabama Crimson Tide played at FirstBank Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 5, 2024. Entering the game, Alabama had a 4–0 record and was ranked No. 1 in the AP Top 25 poll following a win against No. 2 Georgia; the Crimson Tide held a 63–18–4 lead in their series against Vanderbilt. As Vanderbilt's first win over Alabama in 40 years and first win over a No. 1 team in program history, the game was immediately hailed by media outlets and fans as one of the sport's biggest upsets in recent history, even drawing comparisons to prior upsets such as the 2007 Appalachian State vs. Michigan game. The win was also Vanderbilt's first against any team ranked by the AP in the top five, breaking a 60-game losing streak, the longest of any team since the beginning of the AP Poll in 1936. It was the first time since 1996 that Alabama allowed more than 20 points to Vanderbilt in a single game and the most points they had allowed to Vanderbilt since 1906. Due to these and other factors, several news outlets and publications declared the game "historic", and called it the biggest and most significant in the history of Vanderbilt's football program, as well as one of the biggest, if not the biggest, upsets in Southeastern Conference (SEC) and in overall college football history.