It lived up to the billing -- and then some. According to NCAA records, it was only the fourth time that a missed field goal was returned for yards. This finale even one-upped Auburn's last-gasp win over Georgia two weeks earlier. A deflected yard touchdown pass from Nick Marshall to Ricardo Louis dubbed "The Immaculate Deflection" with 25 seconds left set up only the second top-five Iron Bowl matchup and first since A team that went last season and had been destroyed by Alabama combined the past two seasons will play for an SEC title and perhaps a trip to the BCS championship game.
Undefeated Ohio State, which was third in the BCS standings this week and figures to move up to second behind Florida State, will have something to say about which teams play for the national title, too. No doubt the Buckeyes, who won their own thriller against Michigan earlier in the day, were celebrating Auburn's win almost as much as the Tigers. Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs told reporters it would be "a disservice to college football" if a one-loss SEC champion was left out of the national title game for Ohio State.
On the final play, Alabama turned to Griffith to replace Cade Foster , who had missed three field goals, with a potential clinching yarder going low and getting blocked in the final minutes.
Griffith was only 1 of 2 all season with a long of 20 yards. I was really proud of the way our guys competed out there today, but the fact of the matter is that we did not make plays when we needed to. Marshall had tied the game with a yard touchdown pass to a wide-open Sammie Coates with 32 seconds left after Auburn blocked a low field goal attempt. The Tigers moved 65 yards in 2 minutes all on the ground with Mason until that play.
Marshall raced toward the line with two defensive backs coming after him. Then he pulled up just in time with the ball tucked in his left hand, deftly switching it to his right and lofting the pass to Coates standing all by himself. Uzomah a few minutes into the third quarter.
The score would remain there for the next 15 minutes or so, until an Auburn punt was downed inside the one-yard line. However, their elation would be short-lived, as McCarron went over the top to Cooper on the next play, and he evaded a tackle and took the ball 99 yards to the house.
Things were looking dark for Auburn. It was able to block an Alabama field goal with less than three minutes remaining, but it needed a touchdown to keep the game alive. The Tigers hadn't had much success passing all day, but Marshall found Sammie Coates after scrambling for a wide open yard touchdown with 32 seconds remaining to tie the game.
Alabama had a chance for a yard field goal after the official ruled Yeldon stepped out of bounds with one second left. The kick unsurprisingly was short, but what happened next was one of the craziest things you'll ever seen on a football field.
Chris Davis fielded the ball deep in the end zone, and then proceeded to take it all the way back for the game winning score with no time left on the clock. In my nearly 29 years on this earth, I have never seen a football game like this one. This registers as crazier than the tipped Hail Mary win over Georgia just two weeks earlier. Cal-Stanford is a very big rivalry, no question; it's just that the Alabama-Auburn is just much, much bigger rivalry; four of the last five national champs were one of these two teams, folks.
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