1966 Sugar Bowl - Missouri vs. Florida

This could have been the Mother of All Comebacks. Didn’t quite make it, but it was a rousing display - a two-minute drill that lasted 15.
Down 17-0 at the half, 20-0 in the third quarter, junior quarterback Steve Spurrier and the Florida Gators made the fourth quarter a sparkler.
Charlie Brown dove into the end zone from 10 yards out to score the Tigers’ first touchdown and Missouri took further command as Johnny Roland executed a perfect halfback pass to Early Denny after a costly Gator fumble.
Bill Bates added a 37-yard field goal for a 17-0 lead before the half was over and then booted a 34-yarder early in the second half, but that’s when Spurrier went to work.
Scrambling away from Tiger pressure, the junior completed six passes in six attempts, culminating with a 22-yard touchdown to Jack Harper. Coach Ray Graves sent in instructions to go for two points, but the pass was off target.
Following a Missouri fumble on the ensuing kickoff, Spurrier ran it in from two yards out, but Harper threw an incomplete halfback pass on the attempted two-point conversion.
After forcing a Missouri punt, the Gators mounted another long drive. On third down, Charlie Casey made a miraculous catch in the end zone after Tiger defender Gary Grossnickle had deflected Spurrier’s pass. For the third consecutive time Florida’s two-point attempt went astray. Given up for dead at the start of the fourth quarter, the Gators trailed just 20-18. But there was just 2:08 remaining and the Tigers ran out the clock.
In the last period, the Florida junior quarterback delivered three touchdowns in barely 11 minutes of play. He completed 16-of-23 passes for 198 yards and two touchdowns, and scored another himself. To put it in perspective, the Sugar Bowl completion record for an entire game had been 17, set by Davey O’Brien in 1939.