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CGB Hall of Fame: (1) 2009 Big Game vs (8) Cal/UCLA 1990

With less than two minutes on the clock and the 113th Big Game on the line in a battle of two top-25 teams, California linebacker Mike Mohamed etched his name in Big Game immortality.

Backed against the end zone and Heisman Trophy runner-up and future NFL quarterback, Andrew Luck, marching the Stanford offense down the field for a potential game-winning touchdown, Mohamed reached to the sky to intercept any thought of a Stanford victory.

"I just remember we had fought so hard," Mohamed recalled. "Just one of those great feelings, and afterwards, our fans rushed their field.