The situation set up as well as Brad Johnson could’ve hoped.
The true freshman Buck had just been given a shot on the South Carolina football team’s third-down package, only a few games into his college career. He was on a big stage, against an SEC opponent.
“That was like my first real game,” Johnson said. “It was like the first play, so I’m playing in Texas A&M’s stadium, 80,000, 85,000 people screaming, it’s like third and five. He called the blitz and I knew the play.”
Third and 8 with closer to 96,000 fans in the building, actually.