Another prayer was answered for the Auburn Tigers after Chris Davis returned a missed Alabama field goal 100 yards to win the SEC Western Division and beat arch-rival, No. 1 Alabama, 34-28.
"We talked about we wanted to keep it close, and we felt like if we could get to the fourth quarter we would find a way to win," said head coach Gus Malzahn after the game.
Auburn finished the game with 296 yards on the ground.
Tre Mason led the Tigers ground game finishing with 164 yards and one touchdown.
"It was our O-line," Mason said. "Those guys do a great job. They gave me the room to run, and if there's anyone in the second level, I've got to find a way to get over through and around them."
Auburn would score the first points of the game after Nick Marshall ran it in from 45 yards out to give Auburn a 7-0 lead.
But Alabama would fight back and score 21 unanswered points.
With a little more than three minutes to go in the half the Crimson Tide was leading 21-7, and it looked like Alabama had the game in control, but Auburn continued to move the ball on the ground, and battled back to make it a seven-point game going into the half.
Auburn would continue this success when they came out of the locker room, driving the ball 69 yards on nine plays to tie the game at 21.
The game would stay tied through the third quarter, but in the first minute of the third quarter Alabama would put Foster in range for a 33-yard field goal that sailed wide left.
Foster missed three field goals on the day.
Alabama would answer back on the next possession with a 99-yard touchdown pass from AJ McCarron to Amari Cooper to give Alabama a 28-21 lead with 10:28 left in the game.
Both teams would then exchange big fourth down stops late in the fourth to keep it at a seven-point game, but with 3:54 left in the game Foster had a chance to ice the game for Alabama.
But Robenson Therezie blocked the kick and gave Auburn another chance.
Marshall and the Tiger offense would then go on a seven-play 80-yard drive capped off with a 39-yard pass to Sammie Coates to tie the game at 28 with 32 seconds to go in the game.
With 25 seconds Alabama managed to move the ball to the 39-yard line giving the Crimson Tide a chance to kick a 56-yard field goal for the win with back-up kicker Adam Griffith.
Griffith's kick would fall just short of the cross bar, but Davis was waiting and caught the ball returning it for the touchdown, and the win.
"When I caught it, I knew I was going to have some running room," Chris Davis said after the game. "I knew they had big guys on the field so I tried to set it up one way and hit the other way, and that's what I did."
The victory will now send Auburn to the SEC Championship Game next Saturday at the Georgia Dome giving the Tigers one of the biggest turnarounds in college football, after going 3-9 in 2012.
"I really didn't let my mind go there until I shook (Saban's) hand," Malzahn said. "It's what these kids play for, to get a chance to win the SEC Championship."
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