Wow! Cincinnati Wins a Track Meet at Pittsburgh

It's frankly not unusual that games involving a team from Pittsburgh should end up with a botched special teams play to decide the game.

The hometown Pittsburgh Steelers have managed to lose not one but two games this season in overtime, and it was hardly surprising when at snowy Heinz Field, a botched extra point became the telling point in an enthralling de facto Big East championship game between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati.

When Pittsburgh backup quarterback Andrew Janocko dropped the extra point snap after the Panthers momentum-shifting late touchdown, it meant that Cincinnati only had to dance down the field for the game-winning score—and with that offense, who was going to bet against that?

With 33 seconds on the clock of a breathtaking encounter, DJ Woods took in a bomb from Tony Pike with a diving catch in the end zone to tie the game. So after coming back from a 21-point deficit earlier in the game, Jake Rogers booted one of the nerviest college football kicks you’ll ever see.

And with that, it was 45-44.

Pittsburgh fans can't be disheartened. They have a running back who we think will rival Tony Dorsett as a future College Football Hall of Famer and Panther shirt retiree in Dion Lewis, who ravaged Cincy all day and will do the same to Big East defenses next season.

The Panthers came from nowhere to 'something' this year, and Bill Wannstedt has put his team on the map in terms of a national reckoning—so much so that we think that Penn State would have struggled to contain them had the two met up this year.

But the day belonged to Cincinnati and the brilliant Mardy Gilyard, who racked up 118 yard receiving and 256 kickoff return yards. We think that guy Gilyard will see some Pro time.

Let's hope he doesn't 'pull a Michael Crabtree', eh?

Here's the winning moment: