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Auburn's Emory Blake (80) celebrates with Cam Newton after
scoring a touchdown during the first ha lf o f the BCS National
Championship NCAA college football game against Oregon
Monday in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo)
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Oregon falls in
22-19 thriller
(AP) — For a brief moment.
Michael Dyer stopped running.
Hold on.
No whistle. No ref raising his
hand.
So he started running again —
past the tackier who thought he had
him down, deep into Oregon terri
tory. A once-in-a-lifetime run. the
kind that wins championships.
Dyer's stop-and-go maneuver set
up a short field goal on the last play
that sent No. 1 Auburn over the No.
2 Ducks 22-19 in the BCS title game
Monday night.
"All I knew was the whistle wasn't
blowing and my coach was saying
Go!'" Dyer said.
With his 37-yard run, sure to be
preserved in college football's high
light reel, the freshman running back
did what most fans thought was
impossible— he upstaged his team
mate, Heisman-winning quarterback
Cam Newton.
Three plays later, Dyer ran 16
yards to push the ball to the 1 and
set up Wes Byrum's 19-yard field
goal with no time left. It was his sixth
career game-winning field goal —
one that capped a perfect, 14-0 sea
son, brought the title back to Au
burn for the first time since 1957and
left the Southeastern Conference
on top for the fifth straight year.
"Fifty-three years, baby!" coach
Gene Chizik said to the cheering
crowd. "This is foryou. War Eagle!"
Auburn won The Associated
Press national title as well, earning
56 of the 59 first-place votes. TCU
was second and Oregon came in
third.
One of the most memorable cham
pionship games in recent memory
began with a moment of silence to
remember something much more
somber. The six victims of the week
end assassination attempt on Rep.
Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson were
honored by having their names read,
and a ch o ir sang "God Bless
America” while the crowd stood at
attention.
A few hours later, it was standing
for an entirely different reason.
Dyer was starring in a classic
sequence that closed out a wild
finish — five crazy minutes of foot
ball that made up for the first 55,
which were more of a bruising battle
than the offensive masterpiece ev
eryone had predicted.
The craziness began when Casey
Matthews, son of the 1980s NFL
linebacker Clay, knocked the ball
from Newton's hands while he was
trying to ice a 19-11 lead.
Oregon's offense, shut down by
N ick Fairley & Co. most of the night,
moved 45 yards over the next 2:17
and Darron Thomas threw a shovel
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