The 2015 season in the SEC wasn’t always the best, depending on your perspective. But it never stopped grabbing your attention, and for that we can be grateful.

Here are 5 plays that determined everything in college football’s best conference in 2015.

Honorable mentions that ultimately cloud everything:

Nick Chubb’s knee (and UGA’s season) comes flying apart — Oct. 10

We’ll leave out the video — it is available if you hate yourself — but you probably know the play. Already reeling from a frightening home beatdown at the hands of Alabama, Georgia had an opportunity to salvage the wreckage on the road against Tennessee … only to see its bell-cow running back Nick Chubb go down with a horrific knee injury on the first play from scrimmage. UGA still built a 24-3 lead in the first half, but went down 38-31 to the Vols and ended the season with diminished expectations and a fired head coach.

Will Grier’s suspension — Oct. 12

OK, so this is cheating in that it technically isn’t a play. But it mustn’t go unmentioned — Florida was undefeated and had just thrashed Ole Miss in The Swamp at the time Grier’s suspension (for 365 days!!) was announced, taking much of the steam out of their upcoming trip to Baton Rouge to face LSU (a 35-28 loss). The Gators still won the East, but their offense steadily regressed under poor Treon Harris, who led exactly one touchdown drive in their final two games (vs. Florida State and Alabama) and needed late heroics to survive against Vanderbilt and Florida Atlantic.

Grier will rejoin the team after their bowl game, though he’ll miss the first six games of 2016.

5. Leonard Fournette buries Auburn — Sept. 19

As the old saying goes, nobody wins a championship in September, but plenty of people lose them. The War Eagles entered the season as media darlings, expected to win the division, the conference and the national title. And while they’d already looked suspect in their first two wins of the season — they’d struggled in Atlanta vs. Louisville and needed overtime to beat FCS Jacksonville State at home — it wasn’t until their trip to Baton Rouge that their fate became crystallized.

Why? Leonard Fournette, of course.

Auburn vanished from the title picture, never to return, while LSU walked through the mudhole it stomped that Saturday all the way to the top 5.

4. Will Grier to Antonio Callaway on fourth-and-14 — Sept. 19

The important thing to remember about this game is that it was over. Joshua Dobbs had opened the fourth quarter with a long drive that ended in a touchdown to put the Vols up 27-14. Tennessee needed one more stop to finish the Gators and take command of the division.

They didn’t get it — Florida converted on fourth down twice on the ensuing touchdown drive, which brought them within 6 — and the Gators broke Tennessee’s heart. Again.

Tennessee finished the season with four losses, all of which it led, usually deep into the second half.

3.Chad Kelly’s Crazy Carom — Sept. 19

Ole Miss was not going to beat Alabama. The Rebels had never beaten Bama in consecutive seasons, hadn’t won in Tuscaloosa since 1988 and were facing a team coached by Nick Saban, who almost never loses to the same opponent twice. It would take some kind of miracle performance.

And, that’s basically what happened.

This wasn’t the play that decided the game — the Rebels forced 5 Alabama turnovers, and rolled up over 400 yards of offense — but it was an indicator of how things were going that night. Ole Miss left town with a 43-37 win, rocked Alabama’s aura of invincibility and rocketed to No. 3 in the nation.

2. The Trophy’s On the Other Sideline — Nov. 7

So this is probably also cheating, in that one play can’t totally define this game. Still, this night was when the the SEC, national championship and Heisman Trophy discussions all flipped.

Entering the game, Fournette was the presumptive Heisman winner, with some pundits going so far as to declare that the trophy was his so long as he didn’t get hurt. Bama’s rock-ribbed defense bottled him up for 31 yards on 19 carries.

Meanwhile, Fournette’s counterpart, Derrick Henry, finished with a mere 210 yards on 38 carries, in a 30-16 win.

You know the result by now — LSU finished 9-3, saddled with an identity crisis (they nearly fired Les Miles), while Alabama is 12-1, SEC champs and CFP participants for the second straight year … with a Heisman winner in tow, just as a bonus.

1. Fourth and … wait, WHAT?! — Nov. 7

So, at midseason, we talked in this very space about whether Alabama could qualify for a playoff berth without a conference championship. We discussed this, primarily, because Alabama was stuck 1 game behind Ole Miss, which in spite of losses at Florida and Memphis, was still leading the SEC West. What if Alabama finished 11-1 and couldn’t go to Atlanta? What if Ole Miss won the SEC with 2 losses, and one of those losses was to an AAC team that lost to Navy?

For some reason, it made the most sense that Arkansas would salvage this mess.

To sum up, the Hogs played about the best football game they were capable of playing on Nov. 7 in Oxford, and were still down 7 in overtime, facing fourth-and-25, from the Ole Miss 40.

And then … all this happened.

Bear in mind, Arkansas STILL should have lost the game — on their first attempt at a 2-point try, Allen was sacked by Marquis Haynes, who grabbed a handful of his facemask, giving them another shot at it. And then Allen scored, Bama whipped LSU and order was restored (however briefly) in the SEC.

But it wouldn’t have happened without that freaking lateral.