UW-Platteville announces:

Dillon Villhauer‘s 75 yard punt return for a touchdown in their game against North Central College on Sept. 12 is nominated for the GEICO Play of the Year, Intersport announced today. Each week, fans vote for the GEICO Play of the Year and the winner will be announced during GEICO’s Best of College Football 2015 on CBS Nov. 27 at 1:30 p.m. ET.

In addition to recognizing the season’s top plays, the one-hour CBS special relives the football season’s greatest moments, players and traditions. The show also marks the culmination of the GEICO “Best of 2015” Football Tour, an interactive fan experience that visits 30 marquee games throughout the season.

Each week for five weeks, four incredible college football plays will be nominated as the Play of the Year on the GEICO Best of College Football Facebook page (facebook.com/bestofcollegefootball). The five weekly winners will then faceoff in a week of finals voting from November 9 through 16 to determine the 2015 GEICO Play of the Year.

In their game against North Central College, junior wide receiver, Dillon Villhauer, returned a punt 75 yards to the end zone, tying the game, 28-28 with 2:38 to play.  UW Platteville entered the 4th quarter trailing 28-7 and scored last 28 to win in OT: http://bit.ly/1j9W0uZ

Dillon Villhauer’s 75 yard punt return for a touchdown is up against three other plays from week one including, Hobart & William Smith’s Bradley Burns’ hurdle over a defender on the way to a touchdown, a 25 yard touchdown reception with an impressive stiff-arm by Johns Hopkins’ Stuart Walters, and an unexpected 41 yard touchdown run from Union’s Ryan Hanney.

To watch and vote for Villhauer or any of the other week one highlight plays, visit www.facebook.com/BestofCollegeFootball. Fans can vote once a day. Week one voting opened today and ends Monday, Oct. 19, at 11:59 a.m. CT.

That would be this play …

… announced by your favorite blogger:

Villhauer’s punt return might not be the most spectacular play of the four, but I would argue it’s the biggest play of the four because it completed a comeback from a 21-point fourth-quarter deficit to tie one of two games featuring two Top 25 teams (and the highest ranked pair) that day. So vote for it.

The entire broadcast, for those of you who are bored, can be viewed here, the whole thing or the highlights.

Now for some play-by-play analysis. This call is more between a radio call and a TV call, and could have been more descriptive. The touchdown call was something I adopted in my first year on TV, when I was announcing a team that averaged 45 points a game, with most touchdowns seemingly from 50 yards or farther. (The second game I announced featured the program’s longest touchdown pass, 82 yards, and touchdown run, 92 yards, in its history. It also featured 92 points, which was not the highest scoring game of that season.) It would be excessive detail on TV to call off every five yards (“to the 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 …”) so I chopped it in half assuming the viewer could see what was going on, particularly when the man with the ball appears headed to the house. And what logically follows “to the 30,” “to the 20” and “to the 10”? “To the end zone!”, of course.