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  • Auburn Hail Mary Pass Lifts Tigers Over Georgia [VIDEO]

    The Georgia Bulldogs had a comeback against the #7 Auburn Tigers last night that many teams dream of, but never see. After getting beat like a drum during the first three quarters, the Bulldogs were able to rally back from a 20-point deficit in the fourth quarter to pull ahead of the Tigers. Auburn got the ball back with less than two minutes to go, and just when it seemed like a victory for the Bulldogs was guaranteed, the Tigers pulled of a 73-yard Hail Mary touchdown pass that you would not believe.

    Watch the video of the Auburn Hail Mary pass below:

    The Tigers were 4th and 18 and had 73 yards to go with only 36 seconds left on the clock. What happened next was simply amazing. Auburn quarterback Nick Marshall took the shotgun snap and stepped into the pocket. Rather than throw to an open receiver, he threw the ball down the field into double coverage, and it looked like the ball was going to be intercepted. Sure enough, a Georgia safety got his hand on the ball. Instead of coming down with it or knocking it down, though, he tipped it right next to receiver Ricardo Louis.

    “When I saw it get tipped around, I knew we still had a chance,” Marshall said. “It was a live ball. I saw that Ricardo still had his eyes on the ball. That’s something we work on at practice: keep your eyes on the ball.” After the ball was tipped, Louis reached out, bobbled the ball a couple of times and then took possession of it and ran straight to the end zone. Judging from Louis’s reaction in the end zone, he was just as shocked as the rest of us.

    “I couldn’t believe it,” Louis said. “It just landed right into my hands. I saw it once it got over my shoulder. It got tipped, I lost track of it…but when I looked over my shoulders, it was right there.”

    As for Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray, it was easy to see he was frustrated with how the end of the game played out. After leading his team to three touchdowns in the fourth quarter to take the lead, only to see an almost guaranteed victory snatched away brought a strong reaction from the senior quarterback on the Georgia sideline. Murray was seen slamming his hat on the ground in disgust after the touchdown.

    “That’s a freak play,” Murray said. “It’s like a nightmare. You try to wake up, and we are celebrating victory. It’s tough. This is going to be a tough one to get over.”

    Auburn’s win over Georgia guarantees the Tigers keep their Top 10 ranking this week and kills any chance the Bulldogs had of winning the SEC-East. Now that the Bulldogs lost, Missouri will take the East unless they lose one more game. If that happens, the South Carolina Gamecocks will claim another division title.

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  • Nebraska Hail Mary Defeats Northwestern [Video]

    Nebraska pulled the ultimate miracle in their game yesterday, sending up a Nebraska Hail Mary in order to defeat Northwestern. The game ended when Nebraska’s quarterback Ron Kellog III threw up a desperation attempt to the end-zone and the pass was tipped and caught by Jordan Westerkamp. The touchdown was scored with no time left in the game, and the final score of the game was 27-24.

    Nebraska lost to Minnesota last week, and this win may just be enough to save their season, and their coach Bo Pelini’s job. While they are now able to control their own destiny with a 6-2 record in the Big Ten Legends division, they have some tough games coming up against Michigan and Michigan State. Although, if Michigan plays anything like they did against Michigan State yesterday, Nebraska should have no trouble in that game.

    Kellog described the Nebraska Hail Mary that he threw as “a crazy play,” and a crazy play it was, to say the least.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfG1mZ-XtUI

    The game continued to go back and forth all afternoon, and when Northwestern took a 3-point lead with 1:20 left, it seemed that the game was all but over. Nebraska was forced to start the final drive from their own 17 with no timeouts, a seemingly impossible feat to overcome. Northwestern took an early lead, but simply lost control after that. They went up 21-7, but their following 11 possessions resulted in 10 punts and an interception.

    Ron Kellog III’s Hail Mary for Nebraska came at just the right time, and while he was only the third-string quarterback coming into the season, Bo Pelini has said that if they ever needed to drive the field in the final 2 minutes, Kellogg would be the guy he called on.

    The Nebraska Hail Mary that was executed on November 2nd was perhaps its most dramatic since Matt Davison’s “Miracle at Missouri” that kept their national championship hopes alive in 1997.

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