Dec 13, 2020
This was shaping up to be the dullest day in months for the SI Top Ten. Four of the top five teams were not playing, and the fifth was prepping for a guaranteed blowout victory.
And then an LSU player’s cleat went sailing through the fog in The Swamp. And now things are very different. College football can always deliver, often when it’s least expected.
Marco Wilson did a very Florida Man thing Saturday night. The Gators had forced a punt late in a tie game, when junior safety Wilson grabbed the cleat of freshman tight end Kole Taylor as it lay on the turf and chucked it “20 yards downfield,” in the immortal words of referee James Carter. That drew an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty that kept the drive alive, and a few plays later Cade York drilled the preposterously clutch, 57-yard field goal to win the game.