By Charles Goldberg
AuburnTigers.com
AUBURN, Ala. u2015 It would have been a play worthy of a name.
Maybe the Prayer in Jordan-Hare? Alas, taken. Maybe Kick Six? Already claimed. But the Jeremy Johnson 77-yard Auburn touchdown pass to Jason Smith was something special, especially the way Smith tipped it to himself not once, but twice, all racing at full speed down the middle of the field.
A name for the tip play may never be recorded, since Alabama beat the Tigers 29-13 Saturday in the Iron Bowl.
"As I was running," Smith recalled, "I was like, 'No way.