re: Two most iconic/greatest endings to a game in your favorite program's history

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I’m going to go back a bit and pick Van Tiffin’s 52 yard FG to beat Auburn in 1985. That was a hell of a kick, especially for the time.

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Not to dis Van Tiffin's kick...

But kickers were still using kicking tees back then. A 52 yarder wasn't THAT big a deal.

All the longest field goals in NCAA history come from the kicking tee/missed field goals come back to the 20 yard line era.

Tiffin kicked with a tee but they had changed the rule to the missed field goal goes to the LOS. So by then we only got the long attempts at the end of halves. Which is probably why you got the impression that a 52 yarder was unusual. Because under the "new rule" it was.

But in the late '70s dudes were routinely kicking 50+ field goals so often that they had to change the rule.