Inside Baylor's Hail Mary 'Victory Cigar' that never was

Dave Aranda’s final defensive play call of regulation had a name – Victory Cigar. Baylor was two seconds away from puffing on one. 

Aranda’s defensive stunts had battered Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders into eight sacks, and he called timeout before the final play to draw up one more. On Sanders’s right-hand side, Baylor would execute an ‘up-and-under’ rush from the second level of the defense. This would flush Sanders to another defender practicing a ‘contain’ rush. Meanwhile, the defender on the opposite-hand side of Sanders would do a ‘contain’ rush.