Diego Pavia felt the pressure and decided to run.
An opening through the heart of the line of scrimmage emerged as he stepped up in the pocket with roughly 30 seconds remaining in the third quarter. Two LSU defenders came crashing in off the edge, but nobody was left to finish off the play.
Vanderbilt's sixth-year senior quarterback had been making LSU pay throughout the day with his legs when the Tigers played man coverage, and this moment was no different.
With nobody spying on the quarterback, Pavia stepped through the hole and pranced, untouched, into the end zone for what proved to be the game-winning score.
"We feel like we game plan and knew what his abilities are, in terms of his ability to scramble," Kelly said. "We had people that were assigned for that, and we just didn'