These are the iconic moments that belong in college football's time capsule. These are the moments that define the game: not just the great plays, but the meaningful ones. Not just the Hail Marys, but the plays that hailed change, either in the rule book, the playbook or, where color is concerned, the game's Facebook.
It would have been easy to fill the list with nothing but the sport's equivalent of walk-off home runs. The 2006 NCAA Football Record Book lists 163 game-ending winning plays that took place between 1971 and 2005 alone. That excludes 10 years of overtime, not to mention the cardiac moments that happened in the final minute, the fourth quarter or, in the case of Gene McEver of the 1928 Tennessee Volunteers, on the opening kickoff.
GENE MCEVER'S 1928 KICKOFF RETURN FEATURED IN ESPN.COM'S ''THE 100''
06-25-2007, 02:10 PM
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