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Football. 'The players really wanted to go for it' - Auburn's 1988 Sugar Bowl tie

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NEW ORELANS. - Everybody was mad at the end of the 1988 Sugar Bowl.

Syracuse was mad at Auburn for kicking a game-tying field goal.

Auburn’s players were mad at Coach Pat Dye for not going for the win.

And Dye was angered at the officials for not calling what he perceived to be obvious, repeated holding of Auburn’s star receiver Lawyer Tillman.

Dye and Syracuse coach Dick MacPherson eventually became friends. But not on New Year’s Night in 1988, when Win Lyle’s 30-yard field goal with one second left made it 16-16, the only tie in the 82-year history of the Sugar Bowl.