ARLINGTON, Texas - - Alex Bauman realized immediately he had scored likely the greatest score in Tulane history, even after the genuine first year recruit tight end's challenged 6-yard get toward the finish of the Cotton Bowl was at first administered fragmented.
"I held my hands under the ball," he said.
The long replay survey demonstrated Bauman made the catch with 9 seconds left, even with linebacker Eric Nobility hung over him as they turned over in the end zone. That covered a wild eyed finish for the sixteenth positioned Green Wave in a 46-45 win over Heisman Prize champ Caleb Williams and negative. 10 Southern California on Monday.
"I could have had a cardiovascular failure," Tulane mentor Willie Fritz said on the field minutes after the challenge finished up.
Green Wave quarterback Michael Pratt shared his opinions on the wild completion.
"Assuming you let us know before the game that we had one drive, a single an open door to go down there and dominate the match, then we'd remove that 10 from multiple times," Pratt said.
The Green Wave (12-2) scored 16 focuses in the last 4:07, the game-dominating score coming after they got the ball back following a wellbeing.
Over the beyond five seasons, groups had been 1-1,692 while following by at least 15 focuses with five minutes or less leftover in the final quarter, as per ESPN Details and Data research. The solitary success came in 2020, with Texas returning against Texas Tech.
"Colossal win for the program, enormous win for the college, immense win for the city," said Fritz, who helped Tulane to a FBS-record nine-win circle back subsequent to going 2-10 last season.
Williams was 37-for-52 passing for 462 yards and a Cotton Bowl-record five scores, precisely one month in the wake of experiencing a hamstring injury in USC's misfortune to Utah in the Pac-12 title game that kept the Trojans (11-3) from making the four-group School Football Season finisher.
Tulane's Tyjae Lances ran for 205 yards, his FBS-best eighth sequential 100-yard game. His vocation best fourth score began the last scoring flood for American Athletic Gathering champion Tulane, which was in the New Year's Six game as the most elevated positioned Gathering of 5 group.
The Green Wave played in their most huge bowl since the Sugar Bowl on New Year's Day in 1940, when they were still in the Southeastern Meeting, and it was their greatest bowl win since the 1935 Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, where their grounds is found.
After Lances' 4-yard scoring run with 4:07 left, the Green Wave selected to kick profound as opposed to attempting an onside kick. Mario Williams motioned for a fair catch however bobbled the ball too far out at the 1. Two plays later, cautious tackle Patrick Jenkins met running back Austin Jones in the end zone and covered him for a wellbeing.
"We were discussing the decision about whether to onside kick," said Fritz, the seventh-year Tulane mentor. "Clearly, it was incredible that we got it on the 1 and got the security."
Pratt finished just 8 of 17 passes for 234 yards however had two 24-yard consummations on that last drive after the security. He likewise mixed 8 yards on a fourth-and-6 play.
The initial 24-yard culmination to Bauman changed over a fourth-and-10. Wide recipient Duece Watts then hung on regardless of a devastating hit from a USC protector that left the two of them on the ground following a 24-yard gain to the 6 with 18 seconds left.
After Williams followed mentor Lincoln Riley from Oklahoma, the Trojans matched the greatest circle back in school history in spite of the mentor's first misfortune in quite a while at AT&T Arena on Monday. Their presentation crusade brought about a seven-prevail upon progress last season's 4-8 record.
"I've seldom toward the year's end felt so tangled," Riley said. "On one hand, wiped out about the manner in which we completed the season. ... We lost three games this year. We lost two of them on the last play of the game. Furthermore, we lost one in the final quarter in the title game whenever we got an opportunity to go to the School Football Season finisher."
The Trojans never followed against Tulane until that last score. Williams tossed TD passes on every one of their initial two belongings. A 9-yarder to Michael Jackson III covered the game-opening 9-minute drive, the longest by time for USC this season, and Terrell Bynum's 3-yard get finished a 95-yard drive right on time to make it 14-0 in the subsequent quarter.
Tulane tied the game at 14 on Pratt's score pass to Jha'Quan Jackson, a 87-yard catch and run. Be that as it may, USC scored two times in the last 2:21 of the primary half, on Raleek Brown's 39-yard run then Brenden Rice's 4-yard get with 12 seconds left.
Rice, the child of Expert Football Lobby of Popularity wide beneficiary Jerry Rice, had profession outperforms with six gets for 174 yards and two scores. Tahj Washington enlisted five gets for 109 yards.
Williams got injured on a 59-yard run from the get-go in the Pac-12 title game misfortune to Utah on Dec. 2 yet tossed for 363 yards and three TDs while completing that game. USC's just other misfortune was likewise to the Utes, who had a game-dominating 2-point change at home in mid-October.
The Cotton Bowl was Williams' third game this season with five TD passes. His main block attempt set up Tulane's big picture approach tying TD. On a scramble with open field before him, Williams rather lost his back foot and was taken out by Jarius Monroe.
"It will wait. You lose the last round of the time, go into the offseason, consumes," Williams said. "Try not to have one more game later. It will consume."
