20 Years Ago Today

LSU 7
Vandy 6

I bought the game on TigerVision but, per the usual, TigerVision didn't work on TCI in Denham Springs, so I had to listen to the game on WJBO.

LSU went up 7-0, Cecil "the Diesel" Collins broke his ankle on the astroturf in Nashville, and the score remained 7-0 into the final seconds of the game. In those final seconds, Vandy found a way to get in the endzone and make it a 7-6 game.

Vanderbilt's Woody Widenhoffer decided to go for two and when the game right then and there. There was a school of thought in the mid-90s that if you are going for two, you have a better chance to convert from eight yards out instead of three, so Vandy decided to take a delay of game penalty, backing them up to the eight yard line.

Vandy, through all the excitement and emotion of winning the game via the two point conversion, lost count of the play clock and incurred a second delay of game penalty, backing them up to the 13 yard line.

The school of thought was now that, since you are at the 13 yard line instead of the 8, you had a better chance of kicking an extra point and winning in overtime as opposed to converting via a two-point conversion from the 13. So Vandy lines up to kick the now 30-yard extra-point, and big #98 Arnold Miller does what he did better than any other LSU Tiger in school history, block an extra point.

LSU wins in thrilling (and mediocre) fashion, 7-6.