{"id":55855,"date":"2016-10-02T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/espn-yesterday_college_football_has_a_day_for_the_ages\/"},"modified":"2016-10-02T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T15:00:16","slug":"espn-yesterday_college_football_has_a_day_for_the_ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55855","title":{"rendered":"ESPN&#8211;Yesterday, College Football has a day for the Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>f you were looking for starker examples of those crushing moments of fan disbelief, Saturday provided them. In college football, we have a name for those moments of utter incredulity &#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/video\/clip?id=14237467\">&#8220;Surrender Cobra&#8221;<\/a>&#8212; and none was more indelible than what happened in the final seconds of No. 11 Tennessee&#8217;s 34-31 victory over No. 25 Georgia at Sanford Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>After blowing a 17-point lead, the Bulldogs trailed 28-24 with 19 seconds to play. But freshman quarterback Jacob Eason fired a 47-yard touchdown to freshman Riley Ridley down the left sideline to put Georgia ahead 31-28 with 10 seconds left.<\/p>\n<p>Almost immediately, several Tennessee fans locked their hands above their heads, which has become the universal sign of disbelief when a team makes a disastrous play or an opponent does something amazing.<\/p>\n<p>What happened next resulted in a rare double &#8220;Surrender Cobra.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/page\/gamedayfinal100116\/clemson-tigers-louisville-cardinals-deliver-death-valley-tennessee-volunteers-beat-georgia-bulldogs-hail-mary\">Read it all<\/a> and if you haven&#8217;t seen what happened, please do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>f you were looking for starker examples of those crushing moments of fan disbelief, Saturday provided them. In college football, we have a name for those moments of utter incredulity &#8212;&#8220;Surrender Cobra&#8221;&#8212; and none was more indelible than what happened<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55855\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,111,125,128,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-education","category-men","category-sports","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}