Each week, we take a look at the weekend’s biggest moment in SEC football and analyze its overall significance according to the following criteria: The uniqueness and excitement of the moment itself, the stakes involved/overall impact of the play and the degree to which the college football world reacted.

We call it the Kick Six Index because frankly, the Kick Six is the most significant moment in recent SEC football history. The uniqueness of the play itself (returning a field goal attempt for a touchdown to win the game) is a 10 out of 10. The stakes involved couldn’t have been bigger. A fierce rivalry game to decide who wins the west and ultimately makes a run at the national championship. Another 10 out of 10. Lastly, the reaction. During Saturday Down South’s early years, the three days following the Kick Six moment were the three biggest traffic days in the history of the website. A final 10 out of 10 resulting in a perfect score of 30/30 overall.

This Week’s Biggest Moment(s)

Forgive us if everybody hasn’t always been a huge believer in the 2016 Arkansas Razorbacks. You take a 7-5 regular-season team, strip off the All-SEC running back, the 3,000-yard passer and the All-American tight end, and it’s understandable.

It wasn’t that we all wrote off Arkansas, just that we didn’t expect a huge 2016 from them. And then there’s Bret Bielema. His teams fared reasonably well in 2014 and 2015, picking up some surprising and heart-stopping wins, but Bielema always felt like kind of a carpetbagger, a Yankee coach who headed south because he thought that boring Big Ten football could work south of Mason-Dixon.

We were wrong. And two plays Saturday night showed us how wrong we were.

After No. 15 TCU scored to go up eight with 2:05 to go, Bielema turned the game over to junior QB Austin Allen, making his second career start. Allen drove the Razorbacks to the end zone in four plays, but then Bielema got truly interesting.

His two-point play was a thing of genius.

Allen took the snap, handed the ball to receiver Drew Morgan on a jet sweep moving right. Morgan pitched back to receiver Keon Hatcher, who had just caught the recent touchdown.

Hatcher, who is left-handed, was moving back left, planted and threw a strike to QB Allen, who caught the ball and got a foot down in the end zone to tie the game.

There was no Big Ten boredom in this call.

If a typical pass play has 10 possible outcomes with nine being negative, this play could have blown up at about five places. Instead, Arkansas executed the call perfectly. Two-point calls to tie a game are the kind of thing that coaches are working on in May, and that Bielema had the courage to go this deep into his bag of tricks shows an imagination that I wouldn’t have expected from a guy who had coached (yawn) Wisconsin.

But then adversity struck the Hogs.

TCU returned the ensuing kickoff to the Arkansas 27, and moved down to the 11 as the game clock wound down.

With TCU kicker Ryan Graf ready for a game-winning 28-yard field goal, Arkansas turned to their last weapon to stop him — behemoth 6-10 left tackle Dan Skipper.

Skipper, who has blocked at least four field goals in his Arkansas career, has been noted by his coach to have the wingspan of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It’s an exaggeration, but only a slight one.

Sep 10, 2016; Fort Worth, TX, USA; Arkansas Razorbacks quarterback Austin Allen (8) celebrates with offensive lineman Dan Skipper (70) after the game against the TCU Horned Frogs at Amon G. Carter Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports

Credit: Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports

Skipper (above) pushed his huge frame into the middle of the line, reached skyward, and blocked the kick cleanly with his left hand. Arkansas went on to a double-overtime win that has pulled the Hogs into the AP Top 25.

A coach who combines the insanity to call a reverse pass to tie the game with the vision to turn a 6-10 tackle into a kick-blocking fiend is one of us after all, wherever he came from and whatever accent he may speak with.

Like we’ve always said, winning is the SEC is 90 percent inspiration and 10 percent having a left tackle who can block out the sun and swat down any would-be game-winning field goals.

The Uniqueness of the Moment

The reverse pass conjured up a little Boise State mojo, and while a blocked field goal isn’t as rare as a hen’s tooth, saving a game by swatting a 28 yarder isn’t a common play by any stretch.

Score: 8 of 10

The Stakes Involved

It does hurt this score a bit that the effort was used on a non-conference game, unlike, say, last  year’s miracle lateral play against Ole Miss. That said, in a year when the SEC has been mostly beaten like a drum out-of-conference, this is easily the biggest non-conference win to date, and it signals Arkansas as a legitimate contender in an SEC West where some of the preseason favorites (LSU, Ole Miss) are looking surprisingly vulnerable.

Score: 6 of 10

The Fan Reaction

The Hogs are into the Top 25 and my social media is blowing up with people I didn’t even know were Arkansas fans. This was the kind of win that suddenly makes the bandwagon much more crowded. If Bielema has more late magic up his sleeve, it could get even crazier.

Score: 7 of 10

Overall Final Score: 21/30

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