Click here for linkThe Cyclones were still hanging around in overtime No. 2 when Weeden tried to force a pass into coverage. Jake Knott tipped the pass, and Ter'Ran Benton grabbed it. All Iowa State needed was a field goal to shock the world.
Rhoads didn't want to kick a field goal. The Cyclones had iced a win against Kansas by running the same play four times in a row. They figured they would try the same strategy again. Woody got the call.
First and 10 from the 25: "Hold on to the da#@ ball," Woody remembered thinking as he surged for six yards.
Second and four from the 19: "I was literally suspended in the air by the ball," Woody said of his 15-yard rumble. "I had a death grip on it."
First and goal from the four: ""I'm 240," Woody said. "Let inertia do its work." Later, he would continue the physics lesson. "When I'm in motion," he said, "I tend to stay in motion."
Woody steamrolled into the end zone, and the stands emptied. Fans sang Sweet Caroline, and everyone hugged. Meanwhile, voters and talking heads prepared to spin a new set of scenarios.
At the moment, it seems likely that LSU and Alabama will meet in the BCS title game in a rematch of their 9-6 overtime slugfest -- or snoozefest, depending on the viewer's tastes -- from Nov. 5 in Tuscaloosa. It also seems an Oklahoma win in Bedlam has been seriously devalued. Oregon has new hope, but a season-opening loss to LSU muddies the picture. Everything can change in the time it takes a back to drag five tacklers into the end zone. There is no guarantee top-ranked LSU will beat Arkansas on Black Friday. Shoot, we don't know whether Houston Nutt might stick it to the Tigers one more time before he leaves Oxford and I take over.
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