Thursday’s rivalry game between Ole Miss and Mississippi State, also known as the Egg Bowl, ended in one of the most absurd ways possible.
With just four seconds left as Ole Miss was down by seven, wide receiver Elijah Moore caught a two-yard touchdown pass. The extra point would have tied the game at 21-21 and likely sent it into overtime for an extra serving of college football on Thanksgiving.
But Moore’s touchdown celebration was too much. After crossing the goal line, Moore went down on his hands and knees and lifted his right leg, mimicking a dog urinating on the field. For that he received an excessive celebration penalty, which pushed the kicker going for the game-tying extra point back.
And then kicker Luke Logan missed, and Mississippi State won, 21-20, in one of the most ridiculous college football finishes ever.
THE KICK IS NO GOOD!
MISSISSIPPI STATE WINS THE EGG BOWL! pic.twitter.com/Cf6JA3bAJg
— SEC Network (@SECNetwork) November 29, 2019
This moment is even better if you listen to Russian announcers calling it. These guys were absolutely flabbergasted — like just about everyone else watching, really — that this sequence of events actually happened.
And then when Logan misses the extra point, one announcer couldn’t even try to contain his laughter and loses it.
the Egg Bowl was on Russian television and the ending is the FUNNIEST THING THE ANNOUNCERS HAVE EVER SEEN pic.twitter.com/Owvu6iAgRq
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) November 29, 2019
Just incredible.
Mississippi State is now 6-6 and bowl-eligible this season, while Ole Miss fell to 4-8. There’s no guarantee the Rebels would have won if they made the kick and went into overtime, but it’s kind of unbelievable/amazing their season ended with a penalty for a player pretending to be a peeing dog.
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