BATON ROUGE — Scott Woodward’s reaction probably sounded similar to yours and to mine and to the millions watching on national television and to the 100,000 here at Tiger Stadium.
As the LSU offense trotted onto the field for a two-point conversion attempt—one play for all the marbles, a single snap to beat mighty Alabama, a few seconds to take down Nick Saban’s Crimson Tide—most collectively gasped.
“I thought, ‘holy s---!’” says Woodward, the Tigers’ athletic director. “And then I thought, O.K. He’s got ’em on the ropes. Knock ’em out!”
