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Name an often forgotten about thing that happened in big football game.

Posted on 1/30/24 at 12:44 pm
Posted by Billy Blanks
Member since Dec 2021
3814 posts
Posted on 1/30/24 at 12:44 pm
2004 Arkansas Texas. Texas won the toss and opted to kick the ball.

Arkansas of course opted to receive with the second option.

Still lost though.
Posted by Streetcleaner
gas huffer, TX
Member since May 2023
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Posted on 1/30/24 at 12:45 pm to
GOAT thread. You’re an artist.
Posted by Roll Tide Ravens
Birmingham, AL
Member since Nov 2015
42952 posts
Posted on 1/30/24 at 12:47 pm to
2010 Iron Bowl. Mark Ingram fumbles the ball and it’s rolls forever down the sideline and through the endzone for a touchback. Crucial piece of the Camback.
Posted by jamespatterson
Member since Aug 2023
2102 posts
Posted on 1/30/24 at 12:48 pm to
Arkansas has never played in a big football game.
Posted by Faurot fodder
Member since Jul 2019
2411 posts
Posted on 1/30/24 at 12:48 pm to
Laces out Dan
Posted by WG_Dawg
Hoover
Member since Jun 2004
86564 posts
Posted on 1/30/24 at 12:48 pm to
Xavier Carter caught a kickoff in the endzone, started to bring it out, panicked, then kneeled. Unfortunately he had already left the endzone so LSU started on their own 1



UGA would go on to beat a Saban/Fisher/Muschamp led team 45-16. One of the worst defeats of Saban's career on a day David Greene could practically do no wrong.
This post was edited on 1/30/24 at 12:50 pm
Posted by Landmass
Member since Jun 2013
18191 posts
Posted on 1/30/24 at 12:50 pm to
I think the state of Arkansas' basketball and football programs has made the fans lose their minds.
Posted by TheTideMustRoll
Birmingham, AL
Member since Dec 2009
8906 posts
Posted on 1/30/24 at 12:56 pm to
I would imagine most fans old enough to have watched it remember that Ryan Pflugner missed an extra point in overtime in the 2000 Orange Bowl which caused Alabama to lose to Michigan. Many may not remember that Alabama blocked a Michigan field goal attempt on the last play in regulation to send the game to OT in the first place.

In a similar vein, everyone remembers Tua's 2nd-and-26 TD pass to beat UGA in OT in the NCG for the 2017 season. Everyone may not remember that Bama missed a FG as time expired that would have won the game in regulation.
Posted by Texas Gentleman
Texas
Member since Sep 2015
2635 posts
Posted on 1/30/24 at 1:00 pm to
2004 A&M vs Texas, the 1 point safety. One of the few instances its ever happened in a college football game.

Longhorns score a touchdown, A&M manages to block the extra point. As the player scoops up the ball hoping to take it 98 yards to the house for 2 A&M points, he fumbles the ball back into the endzone where another A&M player just falls on it. It’s ruled a 1 point safety for the longhorns.
Posted by paperwasp
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Posted on 1/30/24 at 1:03 pm to
In the third quarter of the NFC Championship on Sunday, down 17 and facing third down, Jauan Jennings made an unbelievable one-handed catch for a first down, setting up an eventual FG several plays later.



But everyone mostly remembers their next offensive play, a 51-yard bomb.



Without that first down grab and the series of events that followed, the comeback may have never happened, and the 49ers could be sitting at home for the Super Bowl.
Posted by Pickle_Weasel
Member since Mar 2016
3819 posts
Posted on 1/30/24 at 1:17 pm to
Dak pooped himself during the 2015 Egg Bowl.
Posted by ThunderSnow
Member since Jan 2019
435 posts
Posted on 1/30/24 at 1:21 pm to
Kick Six game, McCarron threw a 99 yd TD pass

Also, back to back 4th down stops by both defenses. Some really good plays forgotten due to the ending.
Posted by Morpheus
In your Dreams
Member since Apr 2022
4287 posts
Posted on 1/30/24 at 1:27 pm to
Forgot my extra flask circa 2001
vs Florida.
Needed it that day.
Posted by BigScoreboard
Member since May 2021
945 posts
Posted on 1/30/24 at 1:48 pm to
SEC 2023 title game. Downs didn't make a big catch when ball was supported by the ground. Refs moved the chains and nobody reviewed it. What's that about?
Posted by VADawg
Wherever
Member since Nov 2011
45075 posts
Posted on 1/30/24 at 2:24 pm to
quote:

Name an often forgotten about thing that happened in big football game


Jermaine Kearse Super Bowl catch

Also, incredible awareness by Malcolm Butler to get up and get him out of bounds.
Posted by FootballFrenzy
Member since Oct 2023
1393 posts
Posted on 1/30/24 at 3:01 pm to
2012 Texas A&M at Alabama. With less than a minute to go in the game and pinned deep on 4th down, Texas A&M prepared to punt. However, before the ball was snapped, the official whistled the play dead and gave Texas A&M a first down because an Alabama linesman jumped offside.
Posted by Freon
Sah Kurlahna
Member since Dec 2018
687 posts
Posted on 1/30/24 at 3:24 pm to
2010 SC/Alabama, opening drive of the second half and Garcia runs out of our own end zone for a safety, no one remembers because the cocks won
Posted by Cheese Grits
Wherever I lay my hat is my home
Member since Apr 2012
54792 posts
Posted on 1/30/24 at 4:47 pm to
I am still trying to forget the Hog fumble in the Vols game, I feel like the Indian in the litter commercial from the 70's still.
This post was edited on 1/30/24 at 4:48 pm
Posted by RAB
Member since Aug 2019
991 posts
Posted on 1/30/24 at 5:39 pm to
2013 Iron Bowl. 99 yard touchdown pass that no one remembers.
Posted by Funky Tide 8
Tittleman's Crest
Member since Feb 2009
52810 posts
Posted on 1/31/24 at 12:37 pm to
3 Bama WRs caught TDs in the 2015, and 2016 SECCGs. Those WRs were Ardarius Stewart, Richard Mullaney, and Greg Dieter.
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