Doug Flutie

Flutie played in the biggest college game of his career in the 1984 Orange Bowl against the defending national champions University of Miami Hurricanes and their star sophomore quarterback Bernie Kosar. Despite wet and rainy conditions, Flutie threw for 472 yards and three touchdowns and ran nine yards for another touchdown, making him the first quarterback in major college history to eclipse the mark of 10,000 passing yards. But the most spectacular play of the day occurred with just seconds left in the game. Down 45-41 with six seconds on the clock and the Eagles on their own 37 yard line, Flutie had one play left. In one of the most exciting moments in college football, Flutie flung the ball sixty-three yards into the wind, where it was miraculously pulled down by Flutie's roommate, wide receiver Gerard Phelan, who was waiting in the end zone. With no time left on the clock, BC won the game, 47-45. It would forever be known as simply "the Pass."