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College golf facilities: Vanderbilt opens renovated $11 million Vanderbilt Golf House

The Legends Club got a big upgrade.

One of the best facilities in college golf recently finished a major upgrade.

The Vanderbilt Golf House recently opened after an $11 million renovation that also included work to other facilities at Vanderbilt Legends Club, where the men’s and women’s teams call home.

The new Vanderbilt Golf House increased the building’s size by nearly two-thirds. It includes a new lobby, hall of fame, team lounge, locker rooms, meeting rooms, fitness area, outdoor terraces and offices.

Additionally, there were renovations to the Cleo and Lewis Conner, Sr. Short Game Practice Facility and driving range tee boxes. The putting greens were enhanced with different types of grasses to better mirror playing conditions on competition courses.

The upgrades came thanks to seed gifts from alums Brandt Snedeker, Toby Wilt and Lew Conner and their families. The Golf House, Training Center and Conner Family Hitting Bays at Vanderbilt Legends Club were dedicated in 2013, and now the Golf House has taken the facility to another level.

Here’s a look at more college golf practice facilities.

Photos: Vanderbilt Golf House

Mistakes doom Kentucky football in latest SEC home loss

Kentucky’s latest home loss to an SEC opponent was an ugly one.

The Kentucky Wildcats fell 20-13 to Diego Pavia and the Vanderbilt Commodores on a mistake-ridden Saturday night for Mark Stoops’ team at Kroger Field in Lexington.

The loss was Kentucky’s sixth straight at home in SEC play dating back to last year’s 33-14 win over the Florida Gators, who the Wildcats (3-3 overall, 1-3 SEC) will face next Saturday.

Pavia, the toast of college football after leading Vanderbilt (4-2, 2-1) to a historic 40-35 upset win over the Alabama Crimson Tide in Nashville a week earlier, completed all but three passes in a 15-of-18 performance for 143 yards and two touchdowns.

Pavia threw his first interception of the year when D’Eryk Jackson came down with a pick in the second quarter.

But it was the mistakes Kentucky made that stood out the most on this night instead of anything Pavia did.

Midway through the third quarter, with Vanderbilt leading 17-7, Kentucky drove to the Commodores’ 1-yard line only to see a false start penalty push them back to the 6.

Two plays later, on fourth down, punter and holder Wilson Berry fumbled a snap on a would-be chip shot field goal for Alex Raynor that would have made it a one-score game. Berry was forced to scramble and attempt an ill-fated pass that was intercepted.

It was a mere microcosm of the unforced errors Kentucky made in its latest home dud against an SEC opponent. The Wildcats were penalized 12 times for 105 yards.

Pavia led the Commodores on a 97-yard touchdown drive on their first possession that was fueled in part by another self-inflicted Kentucky wound.

With the Commodores at their own 15-yard line, Jamon Dumas-Johnson was flagged 15 yards for roughing the passer. The penalty gave Vanderbilt a first down at the 30-yard line. Later, Pavia ended the drive with a 20-yard touchdown pass to AJ Newberry.

Brock Vandagriff was 15-of-25 for 158 yards and a touchdown pass. His 22-yard touchdown toss to Dane Key came in the fourth quarter and cut the Vanderbilt lead to 20-13, but Berry dropped the snap on the extra point try and had to scramble.

Tailback Demie Sumo-Karngbaye had his fourth rushing touchdown of the season — and the Wildcats’ first score of the night. He capped a 12-play, 78-yard drive that spanned 6:02 with a one-yard run to tie the game at 7-7 early in the second quarter.

Vanderbilt never trailed in Saturday’s contest. The Commodores won their second straight in Lexington after knocking off the Wildcats, 24-21, in November 2022.

Next Up

The Wildcats will head to Gainesville for a scheduled 7:45 p.m. ET kickoff (SEC Network) against the Florida Gators in Week 8. Billy Napier’s team fell 23-17 in overtime to the Tennessee Volunteers at Neyland Stadium Saturday night.

Kentucky football unveils unique look for Week 7 home game vs. Vanderbilt

A look at Kentucky’s Week 7 uniform combination against Vanderbilt, which features a new look for the Wildcats.

The Kentucky Wildcats will renew their rivalry with the Vanderbilt Commodores Saturday night at Kroger Field.

Kickoff is set for 7:45 p.m ET. The game can be seen on SEC Network with the broadcast crew of Tom Hart (play-by-play) and Jordan Rodgers (analyst) in the booth. Cole Cubelic will provide sideline coverage.

As they do each week before game day, Kentucky took to social media to unveil its weekly uniform combination. For the game against Vanderbilt, the Wildcats will wear their alternate black jerseys over blue pants, with blue helmets.

It’s the first time this season that Kentucky will wear its black home alternates. The Wildcats have worn blue jerseys in all but one of their home games this year; they wore their gray/anthracite jerseys and matching pants in Week 3 against the Georgia Bulldogs.

The last time fans saw the Wildcats’ black jerseys was in their 38-21 home loss to the Missouri Tigers on Oct. 14 last year. Unlike this week’s game against Vandy, though, Mark Stoops’ team donned matching black pants to complement the black jerseys vs. Mizzou.

RELATED: Kentucky vs Vanderbilt: Five things to watch for

Kentucky (3-2 overall, 1-2 SEC) will be seeking its third straight victory after defeating the Ohio Bobcats in Lexington on Sept. 21, one week before a thrilling 20-17 upset win on the road against the Ole Miss Rebels in Oxford. The Wildcats were idle last Saturday.

Vanderbilt (3-2, 1-1) is coming off the biggest win in program history after stunning the previously unbeaten and No. 1-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide, 40-35, in Nashville last Saturday.

Quarterback Diego Pavia threw for 252 yards and two touchdowns on 16-of-20 passing, and the Commodores throttled the Crimson Tide in time of possession — 42:08 to 17:52.

Kentucky won last year’s meeting against Vanderbilt, 45-28, on Sept. 23 in Nashville. In that game, Maxwell Hairston had two interception returns for touchdowns to help the Wildcats improve to 4-0.

Since Stoops’ second season in Lexington in 2014, Kentucky has won eight of the last 10 meetings against the Commodores. The Wildcats lead the all-time series with Vanderbilt, 48-43-4.

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Vanderbilt charged $1,005 for goalpost pieces from its Alabama win (and sold out quickly)

Oh, right, Vandy grads have stupid money.

The Vanderbilt Commodores had never beaten the nation’s top-ranked team in the modern era of college football. It had been 40 years since they’d beaten Alabama, period.

But quarterback Diego Pavia and a hyperactive defense did just that Saturday, stifling the then-No. 1 Crimson Tide in a 40-35 win at home. It was such a monumental upset Vandy fans and students not only tore down their goalposts but got a police escort for the nearly three-mile march from campus to downtown Nashville. There, the equipment was summarily dunked into the Cumberland River as a raucous crowd celebrated.

The goalposts were later retrieved and returned to the university. Now, pieces of the discarded delineations between field goals and failure are on sale. Vanderbilt fans and alumni can now own a piece of last week’s historic upset.

For just $1,005.

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A four-inch piece of the waterlogged posts would have run you $1,005 at the school’s live online auction. Eight-inch pieces wound up selling for $4,035. As of publication time, both auctions are sold out. Thrifty shoppers can put in bids for the end zone pylons, which currently range in price from $1,300 to $1,500. Game balls range from $4,600 to $6,800 while the price for a custom gameday helmet is already up to $31,000 with three days remaining.

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That isn’t the only way Vandy is trying to monetize a literally unprecedented victory. When the clock struck zero Saturday night, staffers inside the university’s development office got to work thinking up potential donation amounts.

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Per sources inside Vanderbilt’s administration who wished to remain anonymous, the past year has been at least mildly difficult from a financial standpoint. The university is dealing with a triple whammy of construction costs, lower-than-expected fundraising turnout and the cost of buying out former basketball coach Jerry Stackhouse’s contract — not to mention a $100,000 fine for storming the field after Saturday’s win.

As such, you can’t blame the Commodores for milking this cow until it’s nothing but skin and bones. And with a wealthy alumni base eager to pay these prices, it’s clear this strategy works.

US LBM Coaches Poll drops Alabama after historic road loss

Alabama falls in updated US LBM Coaches Poll.

After one of the most shocking losses in program history, people were quite curious to see how far the Alabama Crimson Tide would fall in the Week 7 US LBM Coaches Poll. Fortunately, the Tide were not punished too harshly for their loss as they only dropped five spots to No. 7 overall.

While Vanderbilt has been a historically bad program, they are still a Power 4 program and will be competing for bowl eligibility this year. The Commodores have looked like a much-improved team this year with a win over Virginia Tech and took top ten Missouri to 2OT earlier in the year as well. If not for a bizarre loss to Georgia Southern, they’d probably be competing for a spot in the Top 25.

Regardless, there is no excuse for an Alabama team to give up 40 points and lose to Vanderbilt. Even Nick Saban dropped a game to Louisiana Monroe in his first year, so I am not ready to throw in the towel on Kalen DeBoer yet. How Alabama responds in the following weeks will tell us a lot about the character of this team.

Here is the latest US LBM Coaches Poll after Week 6:

Ranking Team Record Points
1 Texas Longhorns 5-0 1,364 (44)
2 Ohio State Buckeyes 5-0 1,330 (11)
3 Oregon Ducks 5-0 1,215
4 Georgia Bulldogs 4-1 1,174
5 Penn State Nittany Lions 5-0 1,163
6 Miami Hurricanes 6-0 1,085
7 Alabama Crimson Tide 4-1 1,035
8 Ole Miss Rebels 5-1 935
9 Tennessee Volunteers 4-1 856
10 LSU Tigers 4-1 839
11 Clemson Tigers 4-1 818
12 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 4-1 807
13 Iowa State Cyclones 5-0 695
14 Texas A&M Aggies 5-1 564
15 BYU Cougars 5-0 549
16 Oklahoma Sooners 4-1 541
17 Utah Utes 4-1 479
18 Missouri Tigers 4-1 473
19 Kansas State Wildcats 4-1 360
20 Indiana Hoosiers 6-0 358
21 Michigan Wolverines 4-2 224
22 Boise State Broncos 4-1 213
23 Illinois Fighting Illini 4-1 179
24 Pittsburgh Panthers 5-0 170
25 SMU Mustangs 5-1 123

Schools dropped out

No. 15 USC; No. 22 Louisville; No. 23 UNLV

Others receiving votes

USC 102; Nebraska 68; Army West Point 36; Navy 26; Colorado 16; Kentucky 12; Arizona 12; UNLV 11; Texas Tech 8; Virginia 7; Washington 5; Liberty 5; Vanderbilt 4; Rutgers 3; Arkansas 3; Tulane 2; Louisville 2; Iowa 2; Syracuse 1; Arizona State 1

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Alabama drops in AP Poll after shocking loss to Vanderbilt

AP Poll drops Alabama after embarrassing loss to unranked Vanderbilt.

Almost a full day has passed and it’s still hard to believe that the Vanderbilt Commodores knocked off the Alabama Crimson Tide 40-35. The loss breaks Alabama’s 12-game winning streak over the Commodores. It is probably the biggest upset the Crimson Tide have suffered since Louisiana Monroe knocked off Nick Saban in Tuscaloosa in his first year.

Fortunately, it was a day filled with upsets as five of the top 11 teams lost and Miami somehow avoided an upset for a second straight week. The Tide was one of three SEC teams ranked in the top ten to fall to an unranked opponent alongside the Tennessee Volunteers and Missouri Tigers.

Jalen Milroe threw a pick-six and had a crucial fumble in the fourth, but it’s hard to blame him for either with the interception taking a bad bounce and an OT whiffing a block on a sack fumble. Most of the loss will be shouldered by the defense. You can’t give up 40 points to Vanderbilt.

Fortunately, the AP Poll didn’t punish the Tide too harshly dropping them just six spots to No. 7. Alabama’s Playoff hopes are clearly still intact, but they will have to play much better from here on out. The penalties have been a cause of concern that absolutely have to get cleaned up now.

AP Top 25 Poll Week 7

Rank Team Record Points Change
1 Texas 5-0 1516 (52) +1
2 Ohio State 5-0 1473 (9) +1
3 Oregon 5-0 1348 +3
4 Penn State 5-0 1305 +3
5 Georgia 4-1 1299 –
6 Miami (FL) 6-0 1187 +2
7 Alabama 4-1 1182 -6
8 Tennessee 4-1 1001 -4
9 Ole Miss 5-1 978 +3
10 Clemson 4-1 861 +5
11 Iowa State 5-0 853 +5
12 Notre Dame 4-1 853 +3
13 LSU 4-1 827 –
14 BYU 5-0 753 +3
15 TAMU 5-1 702 +10
16 Utah 4-1 473 +2
17 Boise State 4-1 463 +4
18 Kansas State 4-1 459 +2
19 Indiana 6-0 459 +5
20 Oklahoma 4-1 459 +1
21 Missouri 4-1 352 -12
22 Pitt 5-0 196 –
23 Illinois 4-1 182 +1
24 Michigan 4-2 170 -14
25 SMU 5-1 165 –

Others receiving votes:

Southern Cal 98, Nebraska 51, Navy 43, Army 33, Vanderbilt 26, Arkansas 17, Washington St. 8, Iowa 8, Texas Tech 7, Syracuse 6, Washington 4, Louisville 4, Colorado 3, Kentucky 1.

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Huge Vanderbilt fan Nate Bargatze used SNL to shout out the Alabama upset

What a night for Vanderbilt.

What a night for Vanderbilt.

Not only did the Commodores knock off No. 1 Alabama in an incredible college football game, but the tortured Vandy fan Nate Bargatze hosted Saturday Night Live. You have to wonder if he saw the goalposts being carried down Broadway before he went on.

And it was on the NBC live sketch comedy show that Bargatze shouted out his favorite team with the hand signal after his monologue. Then, at the end of the show, he talked about the massive upset on Saturday: “VANDERBILT BEAT ALABAMA!”

Here are those two moments, and you can imagine that Bargatze is on cloud nine right now:

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Nashville Fire Dept. retrieves Vandy goalposts from river

Vanderbilt goalposts wound up in the river after the upset of Alabama

Vanderbilt fans had big reason to celebrate after defeating Alabama on Saturday. And party they did.

The goalposts never stood a chance. They made the journey to the Cumberland River, some three miles away.

There, the Nashville Fire Department went to work to retrieve the goalposts.

Photos from Alabama’s Week 6 upset loss at Vanderbilt

The Crimson Tide fell at Vanderbilt on Saturday afternoon.

In what was the first SEC road game for Kalen DeBoer as head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide, the program suffered their first defeat of the season Saturday afternoon when the nation’s No. 1 ranked team was upset by the Vanderbilt Commodores, 40-35.

The Commodores first victory over Alabama since 1984, here are some of the best photos from the Crimson Tide vs. Vanderbilt in Week 6:

Photos from Alabama’s 40-35 loss at Vanderbilt

Kentucky football’s next opponent gets a massive upset victory

Kentucky’s next opponent, Vanderbilt, knocked off Alabama in a stunner, 40 – 35.

One week ago, Kentucky was pulling off a huge upset over Ole Miss, and The Alabama Crimson Tide were winning the game of the year so far against the Georgia Bulldogs. What a difference a week makes.

The Wildcats had a bye week, and are preparing for Vanderbilt to come to town. However, the Commodores had to play Alabama. It was all but assumed that Vanderbilt would get rolled by the number one team in the country, but that’s why they play the games.

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Alabama went on the road to play Vandy, and the Commodores shocked the world. They jumped out to an early lead, and continued to make plays in the biggest moments. The Tide scored late, but Vanderbilt held on for a 40 – 35 win.

Now, Vanderbilt travels to Lexington to play Kentucky. Quarterback Diego Pavia and company put up over 400 yards of offense against Bama, so the Wildcats defense will need to play well once again.

Before the start of the season, many fans probably penciled in Vanderbilt as an easy win for Kentucky. With their win today, they’ve proven they won’t be an easy win for anybody.