The final play of Michigan State’s 27-23 win over Michigan was an instant classic, an unbelievable, preposterous turn of events that ascended directly into the college football firmament. That’s not knee-jerk, Monday-morning hyperbole: It’s already there, residing confidently alongside the indelible likes of the Hail Flutie, the Kick Six, and The Band Is On the Field. College football’s greatest hits. Like those moments, Jalen Watts-Jackson’s game-winning fumble return will be ritually chronicled, commemorated, memorialized, and oral historied for years, long after anyone is able to recall the name Jalen Watts-Jackson or the fact that the Spartans’ improbable sophomore hero suffered a broken hip amid the bedlam.
College Football Week 7 Wrap: The Ball Is Free
