Yahoo Sports national columnist Dan Wetzel and senior college sports reporter Ross Dellenger are joined by Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde to discuss the Crimson Tide's surprising loss to the Commodores and how the playing field has become more balanced in college football. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.

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Stunning.

This wasn't for turnovers and driving sleet and somehow Vandy pulls off some 1312 miracle.

They just beat him up.

It is beat the tide up and, uh, that to me was more, more it than anything else.

Um We're gonna get to all these other games, but I wanna ask this question because when you watched it, you did not see, obviously Alabama's got more talent.

Alabama should be better all that.

And there's gonna be tremendous pressure now on Kaylen de Boer right off the bat, I mean, there is not, he two weeks from now when they play Tennessee, which who also lost that game is a monster, right?

Um But Clark Lee brought in 51 new players this off season between recruiting high school recruiting and the transfer portal.

They are spending money.

I still contend that the sport is flatter than ever and I thought this game kind of showed it.

Alabama does not have the depth that they once had and Vanderbilt has a lot more talent and, and, and their own depth is, is all these losses a sign of like, man, anybody could beat, not, it's not quite anybody can beat anybody.

There's a lot more teams that could beat anybody.

Yes.

When you say flat, you obviously don't mean like unexciting but flat in terms of the differential between programs Vanderbilt could have kept scoring.

They, they, you know, they, they took a knee at the end, they were driving again, they could not be stopped.

And I remember talking to Clark Lee in May at Destin and he said, yeah, this is our best team and coaches say that a lot, but he seemed to believe it.

You can make a different team, year to year.

Look at the Indiana Hoosiers with a Mac quarterback and a bunch of other guys from the sunbelt.

It can happen.

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