Considering how well Russell Wilson and the Badgers were playing at the end of the year, they could have made the Alabama-Oklahoma State BCS debate even more interesting if they'd had only one loss instead of two. But another impactful finish happened two years earlier: Michigan State quarterback Kirk Cousins' Hail Mary to Keith Nichol gave Wisconsin its first loss of the season. The Tigers won an SEC championship and lost to Florida State 34-31 in the final BCS National Championship.Ĭonnelly: November 2013 yielded an amazing string of wild endings. Two weeks later, Auburn beat Alabama 34-28 with the dramatic "Kick Six" in the Iron Bowl. The ball bounced right to Louis, who had his back turned, and he ran 73 yards for a touchdown and improbable 43-38 victory. But then UGA safety Josh Harvey-Clemons knocked the ball out of fellow safety Tray Matthews' hands. Two Georgia defenders stood there for something like 39 seconds, waiting for the lame duck to finally come down. If you're a Georgia fan, the memory of what happened next is forever etched in your brain with all of the other near misses ( hello, DeVonta Smith!).Īuburn quarterback Nick Marshall, a former UGA defensive back, dropped back and fired a wobbling pass over the middle for Ricardo Louis. Schlabach: Was it the Prayer at Jordan-Hare? In 2013, Auburn trailed Georgia 38-37 and faced fourth-and-18 with 36 seconds left. Which Hail Mary had the most significant impact on a season? These happen just enough that there's one for each age range, and we all know to keep watching until the final pass hits the ground, just in case. If I were younger, maybe Stewart-to-Westbrook or the Bluegrass Miracle would have been a more formative memory. If I were a smidge older, maybe I'd remember the 1980 Holiday Bowl pass more. Brent Musburger's call, Flutie's mid-80s belly shirt - it was perfect.īut we've been blessed with quite a few from which to choose. That was quite a gateway-drug-type of moment. A decent number of us in this writer community are in the same age range, and this was in the sweet spot in which college football was becoming a national thing. The Eagles' celebration on the field might have been the best part, and the fact that Flutie's roommate, Gerard Phelan, caught the winning TD made it even better.Ĭonnelly: Yeah, it has to be Flutie for me too. Flutie's Hail Mary pass was perfectly thrown over the top of them. I couldn't believe Flutie had the arm strength to heave it 63 yards - and neither did the Miami defenders, because they weren't even in the end zone. But the Hurricanes still couldn't seal the deal. Miami's Bernie Kosar threw for 447 yards, which was a lot back then. That 1984 game was incredibly entertaining. (I met Faust in an elevator at Notre Dame once, and I was struck by how genuinely kind he is.)
But Gerry Faust was coaching the Fighting Irish back then, so I'd retreat to the backyard by halftime most of the time. Growing up in Indiana, I'd watched plenty of Notre Dame games before that.
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Schlabach: I told you earlier this spring, Doug Flutie's last-second Hail Mary that gave Boston College a 47-45 victory over Miami in 1984 was probably the first football game when I vividly remember being glued to the TV until the very end. Before you watch Kordell Stewart and Michael Westbrook hook up at the very end (spoiler alert!), two of our experts, Bill Connelly and Mark Schlabach, break down the other great Hail Marys and wild finishes they've seen. Tonight's Throwback Thursday: CFB Classics celebrates one of the greatest endings of all - the 1994 Miracle at Michigan ( 7 p.m. The "I can't believe that just happened" plays that are as much a part of college football lore as Heisman winners and national champions. What's the best thing about America's best sport? The dramatic finishes. There are so many things to love about college football: tradition, pageantry, rivalries and marching bands. 10-seed MS State pulls away from 7-seed South Carolina.credits Stackhouse for turning Vandy around Stackhouse says Vanderbilt refused to quit vs.
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