It was only fitting that Clayton Tune’s last collegiate pass was a game-winning touchdown to Nathaniel “Tank” Dell.
With the ball at the Louisiana 12-yard line with 27 seconds left on the clock, Houston head coach Dana Holgorsen trusted his veteran quarterback to call the right play.
Instead of calling a couple of run plays to set up a game-winning chip shot field goal, Tune knew exactly where he wanted the ball to go.
“(Tune) changed that play,” Holgorsen told ESPN after the game. “That’s the relationship that (Tune and Dell) got. (Tune) put it on him, Tank makes somebody miss, we score a touchdown.