Dyer steals show on biggest stage

“I came here to Auburn to play football and make something happen,” Dyer said. “I didn’t expect it this quick. But shoes fit.”
While Heisman Trophy winner Cam Newton was the primary offensive force for Auburn's run to the title, it was Dyer, a true freshman, who ran off — in unusual fashion — with the Offensive Player of the Game honors in Monday night's BCS Championship Game at University of Phoenix Stadium.
When Dyer managed to keep his balance and roll off a tackle by Oregon safety Eddie Pleasant, he turned a 6-yard gain into a 37-yarder to put Auburn in field goal range at the Ducks’ 23-yard line with 1:56 remaining. A similar run three plays later put the ball within 18 inches from the goal line to set up Wes Byrum’s point-blank field goal for a 23-20 victory, as the top-ranked Tigers became the fifth straight Southeastern Conference team to win the BCS title.
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Auburn's Dyer gives this one a dramatic twist

GLENDALE, Ariz. — At 5-9 and 215 pounds, Michael Dyer is, as one teammate described, "a rolling ball of thunder."
Light-ning comes with thunder. Every time.
There was a lightning strike from the rolling ball of thunder at University of Phoenix Stadium on Monday night. And with it, Dyer, who broke Bo Jackson's freshman rushing record at Auburn this season, did something the legend never could: He delivered a national championship for the Tigers.
In an exciting contest that was decided on the game's final play, top-ranked Auburn squeezed No. 2 Oregon 22-19 to claim the school's first national title since 1957.
The sellout crowd of 78,603 - with an estimated 20,000 more gathered outside the stadium to watch on a big screen - didn't get what most expected, but it witnessed a host of huge plays. None bigger than Dyer's dramatic burst with two minutes remaining.
With Auburn 75 yards from the end zone with two minutes, 27 seconds left, most had to assume Heisman Trophy winner Cam Newton would make the play to decide the contest.
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