1979: Alabama 14, Penn State 7
If there is a single image that paints the Sugar Bowl picture, it’s this one: Alabama linebacker Barry Krauss, seemingly shot out of a missile silo, zeroing in on Penn State’s Mike Guman at the goal line. On fourth down, the Nittany Lions tried to muscle it in again, but Guman ran into Krauss. “They had called timeout before the fourth down, and they were trying to figure out what they were going to do and what we were going to do,” Krauss said. “We thought they’d go outside or throw because they had run it on third down (to no avail), so I had given myself a little more depth so I could flow to the outside. When he gave it back to Guman, and he came back inside, there was a hole. He saw it, and I did too.” The collision was one that, as Krauss remembers it, made time stand still. “He came over and I was able to hit him,” Krauss said. “After that, I wasn’t sure what happened.”