Opinion: Tennessee's postgame field celebration was a selfie trip, not a storming

Not everyone was charmed by the scene on the field after Tennessee beat Alabama. In a USA Today opinion column, the writer argues that the fans who poured out of the stands afterward did not really storm anything. In the columnist's telling, they treated the field like a photo opportunity, a selfie field trip, and the verdict on the whole display is one word: lame.

The column taps into a running debate in college football about what field celebrations mean now. Storming the field used to be reserved for the rarest upsets; the writer's complaint is that Tennessee beating Alabama in Knoxville has become common enough that the celebration felt more like a routine social media stop than a spontaneous eruption.

Tennessee fans are unlikely to lose sleep over the criticism. The Vols got the win, the fans got their moment on the field, and the only real cost of the celebration is columns like this one.