Through My Eyes by Tim Tebow & Nathan Whitaker

Author:Tim Tebow & Nathan Whitaker [Tebow, Tim & Whitaker, Nathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Religious, Biography & Autobiography, Football Players, Sports & Recreation, Sports, Football Players - United States, Football, Tebow; Tim
ISBN: 9780310723455
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2011-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

Honestly, Auburn didn’t seem like a particularly good team in 2007. They have had great teams before and after, and Auburn and Florida have been known to play some of the most dramatic football games in SEC history. Highlights include Kerwin Bell’s leading Florida to eighteen fourth-quarter points to erase a seventeen-point deficit and beat unbeaten number four Auburn, 18–17, in 1986 (note: every Gator fan in the western hemisphere claims to have been at Florida Field for that game—just ask one), or Steve Spurrier clinching the Heisman Trophy with a field goal to beat Auburn in 1966, and plenty of other Auburn–Florida moments as well.

Auburn had started the season ranked as high as number fourteen but lost two early games at home, to Mississippi State and South Florida, and hadn’t looked good in the process. However, for the second year in a row against Auburn, right off the bat things didn’t go our way. I think we all underestimated them, both coaches and players.

Auburn clearly had more momentum and played with more passion as the game began. They shut us down early. We went three and out on our first possession. In the meantime, they were slowly and methodically moving the ball against our defense. Every time they got the ball, they were holding it for five to seven minutes, chalking up first downs and maintaining possession as they ran the clock down. We weren’t taking advantage of our possessions, and they were running the ball trying to shorten the game. They scored twice in the first half, and it was 14–0 at the half.

We tried to rally the troops in the locker room and came back out after the half, and on the first drive we hit a deep post down to the goal line. Down, 14–0, we really needed a touchdown, but Auburn’s defense and their defensive coordinator, Will Muschamp—who grew up in Gainesville—rose to the challenge. The first play was 97 Power . . . and a linebacker came straight through and blew me up in the hole. No gain. We couldn’t score on second or third down, either, and had to kick a field goal.

Looking back, I think the reason we lost that game was because we didn’t put that ball in the end zone to score that first touchdown right after we came out in the second half. It would have been 14–7 and we’d have been right in it while laying claim to that ever slippery momentum. Instead, we kept playing from behind, but we did keep playing. Things weren’t going well with our passing game, so they started running me a lot, counter left, counter right. We kept fighting and finally tied it with two touchdowns in the fourth quarter at 17–17.

Our tying touchdown came on an out route that I threw to Cornelius Ingram—whom I played basketball against when I was at Jacksonville Trinity Christian Academy and he was at Hawthorne High School—in the end zone.

With a couple of minutes left in the game, we got the ball in pretty good field position and then called a screen play to Percy.

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