Just over two hours before kickoff, Pavia posted what seemed to be a message towards Auburn on his Instagram story. The post was a screenshot of lyrics from the song “Heyy” by Lil Baby, with the line, “They thought I got lucky last time” highlighted.

Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia entered Saturday's game at Auburn with a personal list of items to cross off. One of those was to earn his second win over the Tigers in as many years, the other was to make Hugh Freeze and the coaching staff to regret not recruiting