Texas Tech students camped out for a week to grab the best seats in the house for the biggest game in their school's history, a Nov. 1 showdown between top-ranked, undefeated Texas and the seventh-ranked undefeated Red Raiders. With the game coming a day after Halloween, the kids in the front row transformed themselves into replicas of Heath Ledger's Joker -- black body paint, white face paint and that creepy, smeared-red smile. One of them had brought a dry-erase board with an extremely clever and ultimately prophetic message: "There's No Cure for Crabs."

The students would have a bird's eye view several hours later when Michael Crabtree, Texas Tech's All-America receiver and subject of the aforementioned sign, delivered what was unquestionably the moment of the year in college football. With just eight seconds remaining, his team trailing 33-32 and two sets of national-title hopes hanging in the balance, Crabtree raced down the right sideline, caught a perfectly placed fade pass from QB Graham Harrell at about the 5-yard-line, shook off Longhorns cornerback Curtis Brown's grasp just inches from going out of bounds and dashed into the end zone for the game-winning 28-yard touchdown.