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What Is the Best Single Play in THE GAME During the Tressel Era?

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What Is the Greatest Single Play in THE GAME During the Tressel Era?

  • 2001: Jonathan Wells' 46-yard TD run on fourth-and-inches

    Votes: 8 4.0%

  • 2002: Maurice Hall's game winning TD run (Krenzel runs the option in the red zone)

    Votes: 7 3.5%

  • 2002: Will Smith's sack, strip, and fumble recovery against John Navarre with less than two minutes

    Votes: 3 1.5%

  • 2002: Will Allen's game-saving interception at the goal line as time expires

    Votes: 28 13.9%

  • 2004: Smith to Gonzalez for a 68-yard touchdown (beating Ernest Shazor)

    Votes: 4 2.0%

  • 2004: Teddy Ginn's 82-yard punt return for a touchdown

    Votes: 12 6.0%

  • 2004: Santonio Holmes schools Marlin Jackson on a 12-yard TD reception

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 2005: Smith to Gonzalez for 27 yards to set up the game-winning TD as time runs down (The Catch)

    Votes: 78 38.8%

  • 2005: Antonio Pittman's game-winning TD run (Burgess and Crable get trucked at the goal line)

    Votes: 5 2.5%

  • 2006: Beanie Wells' 52-yard TD run (beats Shawn Crable with a spin move in the backfield)

    Votes: 13 6.5%

  • 2006: Play-action pass from Smith to Ginn for a 38-yard TD on second-and-inches

    Votes: 23 11.4%

  • 2006: Smith to Robiskie for the game-winning 13-yard TD pass (burning Morgan "Slappy" Trent)

    Votes: 2 1.0%

  • 2007: Beanie Wells ices the game with a 62-yard TD run, part of his 222 yards on the afternoon

    Votes: 7 3.5%

  • 2008: Beanie Wells smokes the Wolverines for the third year in a row, this time for a 59-yard TD run

    Votes: 1 0.5%

  • Some other play (and there are many, many others....)

    Votes: 10 5.0%
  • Total voters
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The Catch by Gonzo. "Houdini" runs straight at Harris, plants and leaps backward at full speed, and finds Gonzo for a tremendous catch.

For symbolism, Pittman & co trucking the two wayward Ohioans en route to the endzone.

There were a number in 06, but it's hard to pick a game with such sloppy defense. Otherwise Teddy's TE trickeration might get into the mix.
 
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The Catch. Two outstanding individual efforts on that play...the escape by Smith and The Catch itself by Gonzo. Without both of those efforts on that play, we may not complete the comeback.
 
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The greatest? Will Allen's Int.

Sealed the game and our trip to the desert. Is it possible that play losses some luster if we dont beat Miami? Well, fortunately we'll never know :biggrin:


That said. My personal favorite? Ginn deep on 2nd down in 06. The look on the scUM defenders faces was "yeah, we've got problems" ...
 
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I'm going with Will Allen, out of pure hindsight. It's not my favorite play (for the record, my favorites are The Catch and the playaction), but it was the most important considering what the Bucks went on to do following The Game that year.
 
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Buckeneye;1597309; said:
The greatest? Will Allen's Int.

Sealed the game and our trip to the desert. Is it possible that play losses some luster if we dont beat Miami? Well, fortunately we'll never know :biggrin:


That said. My personal favorite? Ginn deep on 2nd down in 06. The look on the scUM defenders faces was "yeah, we've got problems" ...
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I don't know...lot's of big plays, but to me, there was something so unbelievable when Will Allen made that pick and ended the game in 02. It was almost surreal as a fan to think that the team had actually done it and made it through the season unbeaten. At that moment, I didn't even care about the National Championship. All that mattered was that the Bucks had just done the impossible (in my mind). They made it past so many obstacles and each time came out on top. And to finish the season perfect when it seemed so rocky at times. Just an amazing moment to be a Buckeye fan watching the fans pour on the field and Krenzel riding off into the sunset!
 
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