Photographic memory: Lindsay Scott

The funny part about it is I wasn’t even in the game on the play before that. The way the system was at the time, the receivers platooned a lot of the times to get another player in quickly. I was actually on the sidelines on the play before that because Charles Junior had come in for me. They actually threw it to Charles; it was an incompletion, and I went back into the game on the next play.

I didn’t think much about the play call, all I knew was just like everybody else -- somebody needs to make something happen. It turned out to be a 93-yard score, but we knew that at least we had to get a first down.

After I caught the ball, I expected to be hit in the middle of the field. You can tell how I cradled the ball, I was impacting for a hit, so I took the ball away. Once I hit the ground, I did something I learned back in high school -- tuck it and get upfield and get as many yards as you can. I stumbled a little and when I caught my balance, I just thought I’m gonna get as much as I can. Once I see that, ‘hey, we got a little room here,' I just took advantage of the situation. I was able to run away from everybody that day.

I was just fortunate enough to run it upfield and take it all the way. That was a team deal; lots of guys made blocks to make that play happen. The biggest block was probably from Nat Hudson to even allow Buck to get the pass off. And then you had Chuck Jones downfield; his ability to just be down there and occupy one man, that opened things up.

All I was trying to do was get to the end zone. I ran, and I ran and I ran. Coach [Vince] Dooley always preached doing the right things and not making turnovers, so I made sure I was across the goal line first, and then I raised the ball over my head and was celebrating with everyone else.