Alabama’s Jalen Milroe and Isaiah Bond ship a miracle to stun Auburn in Iron Bowl

On the tenth anniversary of the Kick Six, you had a sense the annual Iron Bowl battle between Alabama and Auburn would have one thing particular up its sleeves.

And it didn’t disappoint.

Auburn had the Crimson Tide on the ropes, holding a 24-20 lead with slightly below 5 minutes remaining. Alabama confronted a 4th and 1 on the Tigers’ 10-yard line, and Nick Saban elected to maintain his offense on the sphere, moderately than try a area objective to cuth the Auburn result in one.

Alabama picked up the primary down as working again Roydell Williams took a pitch from quarterback Jalen Milroe — after the Crimson Tide confirmed Auburn a “Tush Push” alignment — and Alabama had a contemporary set of downs on the Auburn 7-yard line.

That’s when the errors piled up for Alabama, and it seemed like the sport was slipping away from them.

Williams was stopped for a three-yard loss on first down, and on second down the snap from middle Seth McLaughlin caught Milroe unexpectedly. The ball bought previous the Alabama quarterback, and he slipped to the turf to recuperate the ball, on the Auburn 26-yard line.

Then dealing with third and objective from the 26-yard line, Milroe purchased a while after which rolled to his left, earlier than trying a throw close to the tip zone. The cross fell incomplete, and a flag fell as nicely. Milroe had crossed the road of scrimmage, and the five-yard penalty pushed the Crimson Tide additional again.

Saban elected to name the group’s ultimate timeout moderately than settle for the ten-second runoff, so the Crimson Tide confronted a 4th and objective from the Auburn 31-yard line. With simply 32 seconds left, this was their whole season.

That’s when this occurred:

By some means, a way, Milroe discovered huge receiver Isaiah Bond within the again nook of the tip zone to utterly stun the Auburn sideline, and maybe change the trajectory of the Faculty Soccer Playoff:

Whereas the nickname for the Kick Six introduced itself moderately simply, arising with a technique to describe … that … was robust. However not unattainable

“The 30-yard nook to Bond. Isaiah Bond,” is how Brad Nessler described the play on CBS.

The following further level gave Alabama a 27-24 lead, and Auburn’s ultimate drive ended on an interception, sealing an Iron Bowl for the ages for the Crimson Tide.

As you may count on, social media exploded after Bond’s landing:

The win retains Alabama’s slim Faculty Soccer Playoff hopes alive, as they now are set to sq. off with Georgia within the SEC Championship Sport subsequent weekend. And, on a 12 months the place a couple of totally different Heisman entrance runners have emerged, it might need delivered a “Heisman Second” for the Alabama quarterback.

But when nothing else, it delivered an Iron Bowl that shall be talked about for many years, if not longer.