Auburn vs Cal: Kick Six vs The Play

Give me the actual greatest play ever, thanks.

I’ll go with the play

Way too much shite has to go perfect for those plays to succeed

I think they're both awesome for what they were. The Play with its zaniness and the band being on the field and the Kick Six for its pressure and unexpectedness.

Pretty sure "the play" never would have stood had there been instant replay back then. That one player's knee looks down before he pitches the ball back.

Even as a kid I thought the play was unremarkable

No serious person thinks the play is more interesting than Kick Six from a CFB perspective

Arguably it's funnier and has more going on to watch, but it's inferior in every way that matters.

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Cal vs. Auburn: Who has the greatest college football play ever, and why is it the Play?

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Both were dramatic, and unbelievable moments, BUT, there were 2 or 3 times where The Play could have been stopped but the guy being tackled miraculously tossed the ball to another Cal player to keep the play going.

Add in the band, and it was a better moment, but only slightly.

Kick Six

I feel like kick six and the prayer at Jordan-Hare are somehow tied together, even if they’re separate plays. I can’t imagine being an Auburn fan in November 2013.

ETA - as much as I hate hearing it - Bramblett also had a lot to do with the Kick 6 experience. An amazing call that nailed the moment.

If not for the band that play is looooong forgotten.

The Cal kick return. A LOT has to go into that. The Kick 6 was basically Bama being lazy. Dude ran down one sideline.

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Who has the greatest college football play ever

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When you have a game played over a century ago that is still talked about today, my guess is this would be up there for "the greatest". A historic Yankee team played at home against a lowly and dismissed team from the South. A single play altered college football forever. I was not alive at the time but knew many of the players later in life. In a game well fought but thought to end in a tie at best (the Yankee team was HEAVILY favored) but the Southern back announced it was time to score and went roughly 1/3 of the field to score on the next play. At least 3 Yankee defenders rose up to stop him but were discarded like dishrags. While the "Iron Men" may be the greatest team ever to play college football, this humble Southern school in a single play redefined football in the South.


It was called the greatest upset of the century by a historic paper this century. I am pretty sure it was in the Top 5 or 10 of all time by ESPN in the history of college football. When the 75th anniversary rolled around the Southern team offered to play a rematch on the Yankee's home field. The Yankee's declined.