Oregon 19, Auburn 22:See what DYER had to say about his 37-yard run

“All I knew was the whistle wasn’t blowing and my coach was saying ‘Go!”’ Dyer said.

Dyer, who chose jersey No. 5 because that’s how old his brother was when their father died in a car accident nearly two decades ago, took the handoff from Newton and ran off right tackle for what looked like a 6- or 7-yard gain.

Nothing routine about this one, though. He wasn’t sure his knee hit the ground, so, urged by his coaches and teammates on the sideline,

he popped up and kept going. Almost everyone on the field had stopped playing, but the referee never blew the play dead. Dyer made it to the Oregon 23. An official’s review ensued and the replay showed that, indeed, his knee had never touched the turf.

“Really, it was going through my mind to get the first down, hold onto the ball,” Dyer said. “And the time being tackled, my knee wasn’t down … I didn’t hear a whistle, not yet, so I was kind of, like, looking, like, what’s going on?”’

With his 37-yard run, sure to be preserved in college football’s highlight reel, the freshman running back did what most fans thought was impossible—he upstaged his teammate, Heisman-winning quarterback Cam Newton.

Source: yahoo.com/sports