Auburn Football: Relive Nick Marshall’s game-winning TD throw against UGA in 2013

On this day seven years ago, Auburn football pulled off one of the most miraculous last-second plays in recent history via the “Prayer at Jordan-Hare”.

There are times when college football seems scripted because of how genuinely satisfying the ending of a game could be. Auburn football scored that season’s signature victory seven years ago today in what was arguably the most exciting game of the entire 2013 SEC slate…if not the entire NCAA football season in general.

Auburn quarterback Nick Marshall–who had been kicked off of the University of Georgia football team two years prior–launched a downfield heave 60 yards downfield with the Tiger down by a single point with time ticking down to zero.

The rest, as they say, is history:

Ricardo Louis caught the hail mary toss after bouncing off of two UGA defenders’ hands and gave the Tigers the College Football Playoff-sealing win to propel Auburn football to the National Championship game.

While a second title in five years was not to be for the Tigers in 2014–with Jameis Winston taking the world by storm and leading the Florida State Seminoles to a national championship–that Tigers team was the best Gus Malzahn squad this side of Cam Newton.

This game was Marshall’s to shine. The Tigers were a team that relied heavily on the run in 2013, leading the nation in rushing with 335.69 yards per game. Tre Mason was the team’s offensive centerpiece, rushing for 1,621 yards and 22 touchdowns. Nick Marshall was effective more as a game-manager than a big-play arm, throwing for just 1,759 yards, 12 touchdowns, and five interceptions. He was more effective on the ground, rushing for 1,023 yards and punching in11 touchdowns, and leading a grind-it-out Auburn offense to an SEC title and National Championship berth.

On this night in 2013, though, it was Marshall’s arm that made him the hero of the night against the Bulldogs in one of the All-Time matchups between the SEC rivals.