It was the SEC Championship game played in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta on December 3, 1994. The combatants were the Alabama Crimson Tide of Coach Gene Stallings up against Coach Steve Spurrier's Florida Gators. These were two top teams in the country that season as the Gators came into the game ranked Number 6 while the Tide sat in the third spot of the polls. It was the third straight year that these two squads met in this third edition of the SEC Title Game. They had split the two previous contests, so this was indeed the rubber match. Florida took a late lead in the back-and-forth battle until, with 5:29 remaining in the game, Bama's Deshea Townsend picked off Gator QB Danny Wuerffel and took it to the house, giving the Tide a 22-17 lead. Coach Stallings chose to kick the extra point instead of going for two. Alabama quarterback Jay Barker, a senior with only two losses in his career, fell short in trying to lead Alabama to its eighth comeback win of the season because Wuerffel drove the Gators down the field to paydirt, scoring on a 2-yard TD toss to Chris Doering—final score: Gators 24, Tide 23. In 2019, ESPN called it the 79th Greatest Collegiate game of all time.
