In the hours leading up to last weekend’s SEC championship game, from the streets of Atlanta to the rows of the press box high atop Mercedes-Benz Stadium, there were two primary topics of conversation. First, who would win the game — Georgia or Alabama — and how would the outcome affect the College Football Playoff?
And second, would anyone in this game — or heck, anyone in any of the weekend’s conference title matchups — finally step up and seize control of what had been a meandering if not lackluster and thus oft-forgotten 2021 Heisman Trophy race? Between the Dawgs and the Tide, the SEC game featured three would-be candidates whose names could be scribbled onto a very large pile of undecided ballots still in the hands of a very large electorate of uninspired voters for college football’s most coveted individual prize.
“Bryce Young, Will Anderson, Jordan Davis, all of these guys can still win this thing, but they need to do something to spark some imagination tonight,” said a man overlooking the SEC playing field as kickoff drew near. It was a man who knows a little something about the Heisman Trophy, which will be presented Saturday night (8 p.m. ET, ESPN). Tim Tebow owns one. “I don’t know if I really believe that guys have to have that one ‘Heisman moment’ to win it, that one play that people always talk about. I don’t know if I ever had a real Heisman moment. But if there was ever a race and a night that needed someone to step up and have a Heisman moment, this is it.”
Not even an hour later, everyone standing on the Alabama sideline believed they had just seen one. It was early in the second quarter when the Tide trailed 10-7 as they faced second-and-10 at the Georgia 27-yard line. Young took the snap and scrambled all the way back nearly to midfield when he was flushed out of the collapsing pocket and decided to tuck and run. He cut left to dart past Davis. He barely shed a would-be tackler in linebacker Travon Walker. Then, just as the…
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