Texas Longhorns quarterback Colt McCoy almost cost his team a shot at the national title…with an incomplete pass. Just before the Longhorns kicked a last-second field goal, McCoy threw a high-arching pass out of bounds as time–or so everyone thought, expired.
McCoy says he thought the clock stopped on a pass out of bounds as soon as it crossed the first-down marker. Had he known the rule, he says, he wouldn’t have floated a long and high pass over the bench area that didn’t touch down until it appeared to hit a railing near the stands.
After McCoy’s pass, the clock hit :00 and the Cornhuskers began to celebrate. But one second was put back on after officials looked at a replay, enough time for Texas to kick the winning field goal. –the monolith.
McCoy didn’t even know that that was in the rulebook. And I only bring this up because Texas might be the worst No. 2 to ever make the national title game since Oklahoma in 2003 to play for the BCS title. Here’s hoping that McCoy throws one more incomplete, and that Nebraska juggernaut Ndamukong Suh–and not McCoy–walks out with the first-ever Heisman Trophy won by an exclusively defensive player.
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Had time expired that would have been the most epic fail in college football history. Alabama will beat then by at least 10 points.
The 2002 Buckeyes were also awful. But it’s nice to see that us white people have our own McNabb-esque QBing moron.
“Ndamukong Suh?”
“No thanks, I haven’t finished this one yet.”
/I know it’s pronounced Soo, hey I’m trying.
2000 Florida State team was the least deserving #2 under the BCS format. Miami and Florida State had identical 11-1 records, yet Fl. State got the number 2 spot even though Miami beat them earlier in the year. The Seminoles showed there true colors though as they could only muster up a safety klate in the 4th quarter in the Championship game.
Another screw job by Florida State that year was when Chris Weinke won the Heisman over Drew Brees(Maxwell award winner) and LaDainian Tomlinson(Walker award winner). But I guess time told the tale on that one.
Charles Woodson in 1997 was a primary defensive heisman winner. Check your facts, bro.
^^^Yes, but he played WR and was a great KR/PR. Suh plays ONLY defense which is what he was alluding to.
Maybe people need to look up the meaning of “primarily”, as it doesn’t mean exclusive. Woodson rushed the ball 11 times, received 25 passes and served as a punt returner over his 3 years, but his primary position was CB. The NCAA, Heisman committee, Wikipedia and every other source states that Charles Woodson is the first and only primarily defensive player to win the Heisman. So all of that being said, Punte specifically stated that Suh would be the first “exclusive” defensive player to win, a statement that is true to fact.
Sorry, but Charles Woodson was not just a defemsive player in college. You might want to do some research on that one.
I would bet any amount of money that had the teams been turned around and Nebraska was the team throwing the ball out of bounds that the officials would have not allowed 1 second back on the clock. The BCS was in panic mode for Texas to somehow win this game for their almighty computer system that disapoints year in and year out.