College kickers are often their own punchline, but on this Saturday they were the heroes in Ann Arbor and Waco ByPatForde on Jake Moody, Griffin Kell and a CFP shakeup that wasn’t
“Legend,” Wolverines coach Jim Harbaugh said of Moody, who made four field goals on the day and became the school’s career leader in that category. “I’ve been watching Michigan football since I was a kid. Pretty decent historian of Michigan football, and I am nominating him for legendary status.”TCU coach Sonny Dykes is probably ready to make a similar nomination for Kell. “Griffin just came in and knocked it down,” he said.
Kell, a fourth-year player from nearby Arlington, Texas, had the tougher last-second job of the two clutch kickers. He and the TCU field goal unit had to hustle on the field in a fire-drill setting as the clock was ticking toward zero, get lined up and get the play off. “That looked like chaos, but we practice it every Thursday exactly like that,” Dykes said.
Down 28–20, they scored a touchdown but couldn’t convert the two-point try. That meant they had to stop Baylor, get the ball back and make another drive. It all came together like clockwork, even with some risky time management by Dykes. “It was bothering him,” Harbaugh said, but declined to offer additional information about the injury or Corum’s status for the huge showdown with With backup running back Donovan Edwards out, freshman third-teamer CJ Stokes was pressed into a bigger role in the second half. Then Stokes went out for a while, and Harbaugh had to turn to Isaiah Gash, who came into the game with 16 carries and zero receptions on the season.
But on the next possession, Harbaugh wasn’t afraid to call Gash’s number with the game—and season—on the line. Facing a fourth-and-three from the Illinois 45, McCarthy threw in the flat to Gash for eight yards to keep the drive alive. Moody’s winning kick sparked a jubilant celebration and a communal sigh of relief from the Michigan faithful. The weather was brutal enough that the student section thinned out noticeably in the second half, while those who remained huddled together to endure mounting anxiety as this game went down to the wire against a sizable underdog.
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