Kewan Lacy’s opening TD vs. Tulane was the fastest score in College Football Playoff history
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Kewan Lacy’s 20-yard touchdown run came just 59 seconds into Saturday’s College Football Playoff first-round game, and it was special in more ways than one.
The Ole Miss star running back burst untouched up the middle to give the Rebels an extremely early 7-0 lead over Tulane in front of a rocking crowd in Oxford. It wasn’t only the early burst that Ole Miss needed, it was record-breaking. Lacy’s touchdown was the fastest score in Playoff history, taking a hair less than a minute into the game to send the crowd into ecstasy.
It was that kind of afternoon in Oxford, as a record-breaking crowd for an Ole Miss game witnessed the record-breaking opening score by Lacy. Throw in that it was the program’s first-ever Playoff game and the team’s first game since Lane Kiffin‘s departure to LSU and you have a lot of special qualities to what was a blowout victory party in Oxford.
But it was Lacy who got that party started in record-breaking time, and the Rebels never looked back as they were on their way to a quarterfinal matchup against SEC rival Georgia on New Year’s Day night in New Orleans.
Lacy had 15 carries for 87 yards as the game winded down with Ole Miss up 41-10, but it was his very first carry that made all the difference for his team and gave it just the shot in the arm it needed to begin a special Saturday in Oxford.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
