Christian Alexander couldn’t just keep running, not in the situation he found himself late in the fourth quarter of the Bahamas Bowl.
The FIU Panthers faced a fourth-and-6 from the Toledo Rockets’ 33-yard line and coach Butch Davis wanted to ice the game. The coach needed Alexander to make a throw.
The quarterback, pressed into duty for the first start of his career Friday, stood in the pocket until Tony Gaiter IV created just a bit of space on a curl just beyond the sticks. Alexander fired low and the wide receiver reached down to make the catch, extending a game-icing drive.