Game Rewind: Florida vs South Carolina 2006
South Carolina opens the quarter with a incompletion and a Succop 47-yard field goal.
Florida is losing 10-7 in the 4th quarter.
The Gators finally kick it into gear.
DeShawn Wynn busts up the middle for 21 yards and Cornelius Ingram breaks free for 27 more.
Florida gets down to the 14 before the offensive line gets blown up for a 15 yard loss.
Florida gets it back and has a chance on 3rd-and-two.
Tebow is back in, rolls left, has an open Billy Latsko for a touchdown.
Except he overthrows him and it’s incomplete.
Everyone holds their breath for Hetland to make a 22-yard field goal and we are tied again at 10.
10 minutes left and the script is the same for South Carolina.
Mitchell is now 17 of 24 passing for a whopping 180 yards.
Mitchell actually throws the ball more than 10 yards and Kenny McKinley gets South Carolina down to the 30.
David gets them to the 23.
McKinley to the 11.
Davis up the middle and to the left finishes off the remaining 11.
South Carolina is up 16-10 with the extra point to come.
Snap good, hold good, line holds, kick is up.
Jarvis Moss gets his arm up and blocks the low kick.
No good and it’s still 16-10.
Florida still needs a touchdown and right away with six minutes left it’s 4th-and-one on their own 29.
Credit to Urban Meyer for sending out Tebow rather than punt.
Keep in mind this is still the era where going for it on 4th down was not as common.
Five yards up the guy, first down to keep everything alive.
Leak runs the read-option to perfection and picks up another 17.
With third-and eight, Florida gives a look that looks like the same screen play they ran in the first half and Carolina bites.
Leak instead goes QB draw up the middle for another massive first down.
We are down to 3:15 left and after Leak’s first down Tebow re-enters.
What made Tebow’s freshman year fascinating is that four out of five times when he came in you knew he was going to run the ball.
Tebow goes up the middle and South Carolina has a linebacker there.
He misses.
Two Gamecock defenders try to drag Tebow down.
They don’t.
Touchdown Florida.
It’s 17-16 and they might just survive this game.
Except Carolina starts marching again.
Closer, and closer, and closer.
30 seconds left and they have made it to the 32 yard line, well within Succop’s range.
22 seconds left and Mitchell find Rice up top to 10.
Not like this, not like this.
Play called back due to a false start.
Second chance, ball on the 40.
Incomplete, 18 seconds left.
Short pass, complete, timeout, and South Carolina has a 48-yard field goal to win it.
With the ball in the middle and Succop with the range to hit, everything could end for Florida with this kick.
Once again the snap is good, the hold is good, the line holds up, and the kick is away.
And it is in the moment that Jarvis Moss, a man who had 15 sacks and 81 total tackles in two seasons at Florida, etched his name into Florida lore.
Moss doesn’t breakthrough the line and is in fact still behind the line.
But with a leap for the ages, Moss skies above everyone, gets his arms up, and the kick is blocked.
Time runs out, Florida wins 17-16.
The Gamecocks had three kicks blocked on this day, leaving seven potential points on the field in a one point game.
Moss had two of those blocks to forever immortalize himself as the hero of the “Cock Block Game.”
As we know Florida would go on to win the national title in 2006, but it wouldn’t have happened without a memorable night on special teams.