South Dakota staggers South Dakota State on deflected Hail Mary TD

South Dakota with a miraculous victory over South Dakota State

South Dakota scored a stunning victory over rival South Dakota State on Saturday, 23-20, on one of the most amazing Hail Mary’s as the game ended.

Carson Camp eluded pressure from South Dakota State’s rush and threw it to about the 4-yard line where it was tipped several times. Webb outjumped teammate Caleb Vander Esch at the 1 and took a step into the end zone.

Caleb Vander Esch’s cousin is Leighton Vander Esch of the Dallas Cowboys.

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” USD linebacker Jack Cochrane told the Sioux Falls Argus Leader. “I didn’t have a really good view, so I was watching the video board and I did a double-take, like, we caught it? It was hard to describe.”

There are those who think South Dakota came back from the dead.

Eight seconds earlier, SD State decided to try and run out the clock on a fourth-and-2.

Rather than punting, Chris Oladokun took the snap, scrambled around but pressure from the defense forced him to throw the ball. Oladokun threw it as high as he could and the clock ticked down to zero as it sailed out of bounds. But after a review the officials put one second back on the clock, and USD pulled off the miracle.

“We practice that play, we’ve timed it ourselves,” South Dakota State coach John Stiegelmeier said. “It’s eight or nine seconds. That’s how fickle the game of football is. One second and a whole different outcome.”