Five games into Hal Mumme’s first season as a head coach in the Southeastern Conference, Tim Couch orchestrated an overtime win over the Alabama Crimson Tide with one pretty pass across the field to Craig Yeast at Commonwealth Stadium. “Couch to Yeast” will forever live in UK lore as one of the program’s greatest plays.
The play was one small step for the Wildcats and one giant leap for the spread offense.
This week ESPN’s Bill Connelly is chronicling how the spread offense transformed college football. Once perceived as Mumme’s ‘Air Raid’ gimmick, last year LSU used its principles to complete one of the most dominant seasons in the history of college football.