Each week, we’ll pick the top moment in BG athletics as the “Tootsie Roll Moment of the Week.” The inaugural award (and inspiration) goes to Adrien Spencer, whose 64-yard interception return for a touchdown helped seal the Falcons’ 31-14 win over Troy on September 3.

Since this is still the top post on the page, we’ll go ahead and nominate two more moments for the losses at Missouri and Marshall. While I hope to develop this to a more general “Play of the Week” type moment, for now, I’m focusing on true “Tootsie Roll moments,” and as big as a couple of forced fumbles were against Missouri, they wouldn’t lead to the throwing of Tootsie Rolls. So for Missouri, the choice is Willie Geter’s one-yard TD run to open the second half. It capped a 73-yard drive out of the gate and gave BG a 20-6 lead and showed that BG was “in it to win it.” Unfortunately, that was the last we saw of the BG offense.

At Marshall, there’s obviously not much to choose from, Roll throwing-wise, so Chris Wright’s 50-yard TD catch from Tyler Sheehan gets the nod.

On to Homecoming and Ohio U., the play that sticks in my head is Barnes scoring after taking the snap on a designed draw.

My first co-TRMOW honor comes from the Kent State game. The last two scores, Barnes stiff-arming his way to a 45-yard touchdown and Tyler Sheehan scoring from nine yards out with :05 remaining. Both very Tootsie Roll-worthy moments!