Written by Matt Zemek at Bloguin
Saturday night in Atlanta, the Florida State Seminoles became the victims of a play called the “Block Six,” the cousin of Auburn’s “Kick Six” against Alabama two years earlier.
The plays are eerily similar in more ways than one.
Not only did each sequence of events involve a long run — at least three-fourths of the field — they both featured a run down the left sideline…
… in front of the home team’s coaches and players…
… with the opponent failing to establish effective lines of pursuit…
… after a field goal attempt of at least 55 yards…
… from a team widely acknowledged as the foremost dynastic power in its respective Power 5 conference…
… coached by either Nick Saban or the man who worked for him at LSU, Jimbo Fisher…
… in a game the Saban- or Fisher-coached team had led by multiple scores at an earlier point in time.
Yes, you could identify and rattle off several obvious differences between the two situations. The chief difference is that whereas Auburn’s Gus Malzahn purposefully planned to have Chris Davis as a (missed) kick returner, Georgia Tech’s Paul Johnson was worried that his team would pull a “Leon Lett” in the Dolphins-Cowboys Thanksgiving snow game in 1993. He didn’t want his players to touch the ball.
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