Carson Beck put together one of the winningest college football quarterback careers of recent vintage.
But his legacy will be complicated by how some of the close games ended for him with the Miami Hurricanes and Georgia Bulldogs.
That includes the final pass of his college career, which the Indiana Hoosiers intercepted to clinch their first national title.
It was a six-point game, and The U was driving. Beck had a chance to end the drive with a national title-winning touchdown.
Instead, the pick.
It brought to light a stat shared by ESPN's David Hale: Of Beck's six career losses, four have featured his final pass being an interception while within one score.
A complicated legacy:
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Carson Back lost just six games in his college career.
In four of them, the final offensive play was a Beck INT with a chance to win the game.
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Beck had done exceptionally well just to get 10-seed Miami all the way to the final game of the season.
He hadn't even initially planned on joining the Hurricanes, instead entering the NFL Draft after last season at Georgia before coming back to school to play at Miami.
And then the 'Canes barely snuck into the College Football Playoff field at all.
But once in the dance, Beck made clutch throws and showed he could use his legs in key moments, too. It was all shaping up to an incredible ending to his college career.
That is, until he threw the ball to the other team one final team. And in the end, his legacy will always be a bit cloudy.
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