Jacksonville State Pulls Major Upset, Stuns Ole Miss In Double Overtime

Here’s video of the final play of the Jacksonville State-Ole Miss game that sent the Gamecocks to an outstandingly unlikely upset win.

Here we see Jacksonville State quarterback Coty Blanchard firing a short pass to running back Calvin Middleton, who takes it in for the score. This happened one play after Blanchard’s 30-yard touchdown pass on fourth-and-15 in double overtime.

Ole Miss opened up the second overtime against Jacksonville State with a 2-yard run from Enrique Davis. And then, Jacksonville State, an FCS team and massive underdog, pulled off a pair of improbable plays to deliver the biggest upset of the young 2010 season.

Down 48-41 in double overtime, Jacksonville State found itself in a fourth-and-long situation. After a few seconds of mad scrambling, quarterback Coty Blanchard flung the ball to Kevyn Cooper in the end zone, over 30 yards away. Cooper barely got one foot in bounds for the score.

Underdogs Jacksonville State have forced a second overtime vs. Ole Miss in a bid to pull off a major upset.

Jacksonville State struck first in overtime, as Marques Ivory completed a seven-yard pass to Alan Bonner. Ole Miss answered when Brandon Bolden broke through for a touchdown of his own.

Saturday’s biggest surprise has come to us courtesy of Jacksonville State, an FCS team that has brought Ole Miss to overtime.

After heading into halftime down 31-10, Jacksonville State exploded in the fourth quarter with 21 points -- including an improbable two-point conversion in the final seconds -- to tie up the game in the final seconds.