After watching Terry Godwin execute a trick play in practice, Georgia’s interim coach, Bryan McClendon, was having second thoughts about calling it during the second quarter of a bowl game.
His players and coaches persuaded him otherwise, and it might have been the best decision of McClendon’s short-lived coaching career.
Godwin, a receiver, lined up in the Wildcat, took the snap and threw a 44-yard touchdown pass that got the Bulldogs going and later caught a 17-yard scoring pass in Georgia’s 24-17 win over Penn State in the TaxSlayer Bowl on Saturday in Jacksonville, Fla.