Where Vanderbilt’s stunning win over NC State ranks among the craziest endings since 2000

All NC State quarterback CJ Bailey had to do was take a knee or throw the football away with a three-point lead in the final seconds Saturday afternoon at Vanderbilt.

Instead, Bailey was sacked-and-stripped in the end zone with one second to play, lifting the Commodores to an improbable 35-31 victory over the Wolfpack. For a team hoping to post its first win over an SEC opponent in the regular season since 1999, the result was a gut punch for NC State and a jubilant locker room for unbeaten Vanderbilt.

"It's just a play where you roll out and you don't get tackled, you try to burn as much time as you can and then fall to the ground and protect the football," NC State coach Dave Doeren said in defeat. "He got hit and he didn't protect the football."

Going back to 2000, this was the craziest ending we can recall, and it highlights our list of the wildest endings this century.

In the end, a late interception from freshman quarterback Jared Curtis was not the nail in the coffin for the Commodores. Bailey's failure to burn the final seconds backfired on the Wolfpack and left NC State coach…

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