Fifth Down is the name given to a play erroneously given to the Colorado Buffaloes who used it to score the game winning touchdown and go on to win a share of the 1990 NCAA Division I-A National Championship.
...that William E. "Bud" Davis wanted "to be the world's greatest football coach" and got a chance to prove it in 1962, but went 2-8 and never coached again, but went on to a successful career as university president at 4 universities? ~ January 14, 2007