Top Moments of the 2009 Season: The Elite Eight - Cody 5 vs Ingram's Final TD
by Todd on Mar 2, 2010 8:00 AM CST
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Ok, so when I thought yesterday's might actually be close? Wrong. Anders' forced fumble makes it to the Final Four with 89% of the vote where it will face another MNC moment, Dareus' TD, for a shot at the championship game. Today we're pitting Upchurch's game winning catch at Auburn with Ingram's MNC clinching TD against Texas. If things go like I imagine they will, we'll have an Ingram-less Final Four, which just boggles my mind. Just goes to show that we've got a team that put together a perfect season and not just one star player when a Heisman winner can't even crack the Final Four. Vote away:
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| Cody 5 |
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Could have
won the NC without Ingrams TD (granted, it was much easier with it), but there is no way we even get there without Cody-5 (which, by the way, should be renamed Upchurch-5, or something like that). Easy vote.
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by RememberTheRoseBowl on Mar 2, 2010 8:07 AM CST reply actions
i agree
it took me two rounds to remember that this was the auburn TD by Upchurch. But maybe im just stupid lol.
by tidefanstuckatlsu on Mar 2, 2010 8:17 AM CST up reply actions
no way we even get there without Cody-5
Tiffin still could have made the kick and given us the lead. Not a foregone conclusion that Tiffin makes a FG that short (I’d actually be more comfortable with him kicking a ~30yarder, he seems to have concentration issues with the gimmes), but not all hope would have been lost.
I’m probably in the minority, but this one is kind of tough for me. Everybody thinks of Ingram’s TD as putting the exclamation point on what was a foregone conclusion at that point, but that’s 3rd down and if he gets stopped we’re either going to have to go for it on 4th, or we’ll be up less than a TD with a couple of minutes left and the momentum will be with Texas. Plus the celebration after this TD is the iconic moment of the Championship game
It was a closer vote for me
I think that both players were critical. While Cody-5 did give us the lead, both plays where on third down. Both field goals were at a spot that they would have been a pretty high probability. (but yes, not a certainty) I think that I would have been more scared of Texas with a six point lead than Auburn with a two point lead, given the time left.
by tide96 on Mar 2, 2010 8:59 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Agreed...
Easy vote. I didn’t watch the Upchurch 5 live (was listening to Eli on the radio), great feeling I laid on the horn for about 5 minutes straight. If it wasn’t for that play (great call BTW) we wouldv’e been playin a few days before Jan. 7. Also I love the fact that the Barners thought they were about to pull off the biggest upset of the year, and we stomped all their hopes and dreams with one sweet PA pass. HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA AwwwwwBurn.
Still after 14-0 and heisman and nat’l champ they still can’t get it through their thick skulls they are our lil bro. Always have been always will be. Nuff said.
"I like my Johnnie Walker red and my women bolnde."
- Joe Namath
"Still after 14-0 and heisman and nat’l champ they still can’t get it through their thick skulls they are our lil bro. Always have been always will be. Nuff said."
+1! And now we have to hear from them that their 2004 team could be our 2009 team! God I hate Allburn!
Agreed...
dashing the Aubie’s hopes of taking us out of the National Championship Game was probably the pinnacle of the season.
It was definitely up there
but there’s no way it tops beating Florida in the SECCG… the problem is that all of the awesomeness of that game was spread out over tons of plays instead of just one like the auburn game.
In my opinion, the pinnacle of the season was seeing Tebow crying. The reason is not so much because we made him cry. It was more because that moment was when I was certain that the butt-whippin was complete. Our ticket to the MNC was stamped.
Just my 2 cents.
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dude...
i nearly crapped myself when Upchurch caught that pass….
Lane Kiffin took the meaning of "Volunteer" WAY too seriously....
b/c of that play?
or just b/c that’s what old people do?
"Yeah, it's Tennessee, that's the way it is sometimes." - Corey Zickefoose, Pulitzer Prize winner and robbery victim
"This is not the end. This is the beginning." - The Great and Powerful Saban
by Thomas Walker Esq on Mar 2, 2010 2:57 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Zing!
It's not what you've done but what you are doing that matters.
by AlabamaJammer on Mar 2, 2010 3:07 PM CST up reply actions
Thought I would
be in the minority picking “Cody 5”.
I think we kick a FG and still beat Auburn, but Upchurch getting the TD was sweet…..plus it was Auburn.
We're switching criteria?
I thought it was what made you more happy? I never thought the MNC game was in doubt after Darius scored the TD before the half, no matter how close UT tried to make it.
Until that last drive I thought the perfect season was over and Auburn would revel in destroying our BCS chances. When I saw Roy get a little daylight I started screaming in joy. In fact my neighbor (who doen’t understand being in Arizona) came to the fence and was asking why I was bellowing like some mad man.
It's not what you've done but what you are doing that matters.
Our odium for Auburn...
is clearly betokened.
"When you give a Gatorade bath, you're not suppose to hit the coach in the head with the bucket !" - Saban
Call me crazy
But Ingram’s second effort to get that TD was the exclamation point to the season.
Lee Corso: How would you describe tailgating at Alabama?
Kirk Herbstreit: Barbecue and Ralph Lauren
Crazy
It's not what you've done but what you are doing that matters.
by AlabamaJammer on Mar 2, 2010 11:56 AM CST up reply actions
now all you
“Upchurch’s run was better than Ingrams” cry babies can please be quiet! :)
Lane Kiffin took the meaning of "Volunteer" WAY too seriously....
Spoken like a true parent....
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Mar 2, 2010 2:47 PM CST up reply actions
Stunning.
I thought Ingram’s TD would run away with this. The celebration is the iconic image of the season:
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Prostitute....
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Mar 2, 2010 3:03 PM CST up reply actions
I believe Jack White said it best...
“You can’t be a pimp and a prostitute too.”
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That quote...
…doesn’t necessarily work in your favor…but I like it…and I hope you know I’m just playin’….
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Mar 2, 2010 9:04 PM CST up reply actions
oh how they both literally make me weep with joy...
…but i am voting with which one made the rest of the team the happiest and i think it is pretty obvious
"You have to create 6 seconds of hell each play..."
Coach Nick Saban
No doubt...
…it’s Cody 5.
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Mar 2, 2010 9:05 PM CST up reply actions
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