Two years ago Alex McPherson weighed 110 pounds. He had lost 55 of them. They admitted him to a hospital, and that December surgeons took out his entire large intestine. Tonight he walked onto a field in Athens with no time left on the clock and kicked a 34 yard field goal to beat the number one team in the country. Auburn 27, Georgia 24. Here is the whole thing. McPherson is from Fort Payne, Alabama. His brother Evan kicks for the Cincinnati Bengals. In high school he made a 61 yard field goal, still the Alabama state record. At Auburn he was close to automatic. One season he went 13 for 13. Not a single miss, all year. Then he got sick. It was ulcerative colitis, and it was severe. He played one game that entire season. One. Here is him describing the bottom of it. "I lost 55 pounds at that point. I was 110 pounds when I got admitted to the hospital." Then came the operation. "It changed my life." "I wouldn't be here or playing football again without the surgery." So he had to build a body back from almost nothing and learn to kick with it. This past summer he said this. "I think I'm kicking as good as I have since before I got sick." Look at what he has done. In his career he has attempted 87 extra points and made 87 extra points. He has never missed one. And tonight, with the clock at zero, against a team ranked first in the country that had not lost, in their own stadium, with Auburn an eighteen and a half point underdog, he had a 34 yarder to win it. He made it. Now the honest part. A 34 yard field goal is a kick he is supposed to make. Kickers make those. The distance was not the hard part. The hard part was everything in front of it. Two years ago he was lying in a hospital at 110 pounds and a surgeon was removing an organ from his body. Tonight he jogged out in front of a stadium that wanted him to miss and put his foot through it. #cfb #CollegeFootball #cfbnews #auburn #auburnfootball - @thesportsontap