After Justin's kick and celebration that followed, I thought that he has taken his place with other's making game winning kicks: Phil Dawson: 50 yard kick into a strong wind as tmie expired to beat a top ranked Virginia. Dusty Mangum: 37 yard kick as time expired to win the Rose Bowl over Michigan. Hunter Lawrence: 46 yard kick as time expired to win the Big 12 Championship Justin Tucker: 40 yard kick as time expired to beat Texas A&M in the final game in the 118 year old series. I think of all of those I'll remember Justin's kick as long as I live. While it won a regular season game it was also a great kick in the aggys butt to send their whining asses off to the SEC. Bragging rights forever! Thank you Justin and to the whole team. Hook 'em!! 76-37-5 that's a real tradition.
I believe Virginia was ranked somewhere about #14 when Phil Dawson kicked that field goal. I couldn't believe he made it. It just fell over the goal post. That was when James "I Feel good" Brown led the game winning drive. Wasn't there another game winning field goal against these same aggys in the late 90's?
I have never seen a football cut like a knife through an entire fanbase like that one did while splitting the posts. There may have been other kicks that had more importance but none have inflicted more pain. It was beautiful.
only an XP, but Happy Feller's XP vs Arkansas in the Shootout was damn near blocked. Ark kid came within an inch or 2 of tipping it. Justin's kick was perfection, as was the whole scenario.
No matter what shortcomings we blame on Mack, having a clutch field goal kicker has never been one of them. That was, by far, the most important game of the 2011 season. Before the season started (with A&M ranked in the Top 10), I gave the Horns only a 20% chance to win in College Station. Even with the improvement in our defense and running game over the course of the season, I still gave less than a 40% chance of pulling off the win on turkey day. Easily the most memorable and significant win of the year for Mack and Longhorn nation. Great never-quit attitude and team effort, despite the long odds and early deficit.
Kris Stockton kicked a final few seconds field goal to beat aggy in 1998, but it left about 7 seconds on the clock. It wasn't the last play of the game like the others were.
When is the last time we missed a kick to lose a game? It seems that never happens for Texas - or hasn't in a very long time. I can't remember one going back at least 15 years or so.
Mack's record in games decided by 5 points are less is something like 25-5. Alot of good kickers in clutch situations. And don't forget the kick to win 38-35 in Stillwater after being down 35-14.
This got me thinking. Texas seems to win more than their fair share of games as time runs out. Has UT lost any games on a last second FG or TD in the last say 20 years? The 2008 loss to Tech was close, but they still had to kick off after the winning TD, so there was still a chance for a TD return to win the game, but alas, it didn't go that way.
Seems in 1984 UT kicked a fg into the south wind, with no time outs. clock running out, as the kicking team had to rush onto the field, at Tech, to win 13-10. I was there but I can't remember the kickers name (maybe Stockton?).
All great moments, BevoJoe. I think out of all of them, Phil Dawson's is the most impressive without considering the rankings of both Texas and Virginia and the implications for the kick. I was at that game and I remember how the football just seemed to hang in the air for an eternity before floating over the uprights. And that wasn't just a light wind he was kicking into. In terms of importance, I think Dusty Mangum's kick ranks the highest. It resulted in a win in Mack's first BCS appearance after years of being dogged for never getting his team to a BCS bowl, and it catapulted a confident Longhorn team into a 2005 championship season.
Good call on Bailey's epic kick. Someone needs to revise the list to include Bailey, Stockton over A&M, Stillwater, AND Stockton to beat Okie lite in Austin, 1998. Quite a list with not a missed kick in the lot. The 1998 game was especially memorable to me. I sold that as a marriage enrichment trip with my wife. Pretty much everything but the game went wrong, so we've had no follow-ups since that time. Just me and the boys. As an aside, bittersweet day for Phil Dawson yesterday. He hit about a 54 yard kick to give Browns a late lead; he missed one about the same distance later. . Great kicker on a suck team
..or missed kicks by the opposing team. I was at the Cotton Bowl for TX/OU in 1990 when RD Lasher missed the field goal (as time expired?) that allowed Texas to bring home the victory. Seared. In Memory. Forever.
_________________________ 76-37-5 that's a real tradition. _________________________ Good T-Shirt or sig material. LOL Maybe the shirt could be sold in a nice maroon color in Colley Station.
Here's a question for some of you experts: Since the modern version of overtime, has Texas ever played an OT game? I seem to remember one OT game against OU but that was long ago and before the latest version of rules.
Texas has played one OT game - the loss to OU in 1996. Same version of shootouts/penalty kicks that college still has.
If my mind serves me still, I remember Erxleben missing a 50 odd yard field goal against Boston College in 76. I recall him getting a second chance when B.C. was offsides and missed that one too. Whether they were as time expired I can't recall. That being said, he was a hell of a kicker/punter and a helluva lot fun to watch. Perhaps someone with a sharper memory remembers the sequence better than I. That was a weird year. Ranked really high at the beginning of the year but a ton of injuries and no quarterback killed us. Royal hung it up at the end of the year.
dillohorn...if it was ´84 I'm sure the kicker was Jeff Ward and he would have been a sophmore. I had played against him in the State semi-finals in soccer in the Spring of ´83, when he was a Sr. in HS. Stockton was later.
