Defensive plays to win the game
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4th down stop vs USC to give the ball back to VY for game winning drive. So many great defensive stops in that game.
Blame Gideons interception of Graham Harrell’s pass to seal the deal in 2008
Fixed.
Aaron Ross forced fumble in the snow to set up game winning field goal in Lincoln. Can't remember the year.
Phillip Geiggar interception on a hail mary against Arkansas in 2004
The Cedric Griffin interception with 5 min left is more etched in my memory, though.
The Cedric Griffin interception with 5 min left is more etched in my memory, though.
Granted, tOSU would have had to drive ~65 yards in under half a minute to have a chance to win the game, but Aaron Harris’s sack of Troy Smith for a safety in 2005 was still pretty big.
While we're at it, we can also go way back to the game that makes Pig fans choke with bitter anguish to this day. It's 53 Veer Pass on 4th-and-3 that everyone remembers from the Big Shootout / Game of the Century, but Texas needed two huge defensive plays in the fourth quarter to guarantee the win and the national championship.
Arkansas could have taken a 17-8 lead with a short FG with just 10 minutes to play and likely sewn up the championship for themselves, but instead of just running on third down to center the ball for the chip-shot FG, Bill Montgomery threw a bad pass from our seven-yard line that Danny Lester intercepted in the endzone, keeping Texas within one score.
And even after Texas had improbably come from being down 14-0 at the start of the fourth to taking a 15-14 lead with just under four minutes to play, Arkansas had plenty of time to drive for the win. Montgomery hit four passes and moved the Hogs perilously close to FG range. With a little more than a minute to play and Arkansas at the Texas 39, Montgomery rolled to his right and threw a pass that Mike Campbell's son Tom wrestled away from the Arkansas receiver for the INT at the Texas 20. If Montgomery had led his receiver by just another six inches, the Street-to-Peschel connection is probably just a meaningless footnote, and Texas fans would be the ones feeling that undying bitterness 49 years later.
Arkansas could have taken a 17-8 lead with a short FG with just 10 minutes to play and likely sewn up the championship for themselves, but instead of just running on third down to center the ball for the chip-shot FG, Bill Montgomery threw a bad pass from our seven-yard line that Danny Lester intercepted in the endzone, keeping Texas within one score.
And even after Texas had improbably come from being down 14-0 at the start of the fourth to taking a 15-14 lead with just under four minutes to play, Arkansas had plenty of time to drive for the win. Montgomery hit four passes and moved the Hogs perilously close to FG range. With a little more than a minute to play and Arkansas at the Texas 39, Montgomery rolled to his right and threw a pass that Mike Campbell's son Tom wrestled away from the Arkansas receiver for the INT at the Texas 20. If Montgomery had led his receiver by just another six inches, the Street-to-Peschel connection is probably just a meaningless footnote, and Texas fans would be the ones feeling that undying bitterness 49 years later.
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