Imagine being within the confines of Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium on Nov. 30, 2013, but never seeing Auburn corner back Chris Davis collect Alabama’s Adam Griffith short field goal.

Such was the case for Josh Brunner, who was an Auburn student interning with the athletic department at the time.

During the game, Brunner was responsible for keeping track of participation, essentially meaning he kept track of every time an Auburn player stepped onto or off the football field. Brunner’s post-game responsibility was assisting with the away team’s press conference.

And because Saban isn’t one to lollygag around after a game, Brunner had to get moving before the game’s final whistle to get to the away team’s media room.

“I remember walking towards the door and I was taking some steps towards Alabama’s (sports information director) and I just remember hearing the roar of the crowd and turning,” Brunner said.

By the time Brunner had turned back around to face the field, Davis had already gathered up Griffith’s miss and was making a break for it down the sideline.

And in a candid response, Brunner admits the press box “went nuts.”

“I think that was the one time in my whole entire career working in college athletics in the 10 years I’ve been in this industry that I’ve seen a press box absolutely erupt,” Brunner said. “Everyone. It was crazy.”

For those who haven’t been in many working press boxes in their lifetime, cheering and similar behaviors are frowned upon and deemed unprofessional.

Two weeks prior to the “Kick Six,” Auburn was hosting Georgia in another barnburner that bears its own affectionate nickname: “The Prayer in Jordan-Hare.”

Brunner was there that day Auburn quarterback Nick Marshall connected with Ricardo Louis on a 73-yard touchdown pass that was about as unlikely to happen as they come. In an effort to maintain professionalism but still celebrate a bit, Brunner remembers fist bumping his friend under the press box table.

“Two weeks before that, people were calling this Georgia game the greatest moment in Auburn history with the ‘Prayer in Jordan-Hare’,” Brunner remembers.

Little did they know what was yet to unfold when Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide came to town later that month.

As if the Iron Bowl ever needs additional layers to pique intrigue, the fact that Alabama ranked as the No. 1 team in the country and Auburn was on its heels as the fourth-ranked team, The Plains were buzzing.

“There’s always buzz around that game,” Brunner said. “But I don’t know, just with all the momentum and just all the buzz that happened from two weeks before, I just felt like there was a little bit extra going into this game.”

Despite keeping tabs on every Auburn player to enter and exit the game, which required Brunner to have his eyes glued to Pat Dye Field, he admits he doesn’t remember much about the game other than its ending.

Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron put together a performance that kept him in the Heisman Trophy race after tallying 277 passing yards and three touchdowns.

Meanwhile, Auburn’s Marshall failed to eclipse the 100-yard mark through the air but added 99 yards with his legs. Marshall finished the game responsible for two touchdowns – one passing and one rushing.

The Tigers’ Heisman Trophy finalist running back Tre Mason added 164 rushing yards and a touchdown.

Come the start of the fourth quarter, the Tigers and Tide were knotted up at 21 all. But Alabama eventually broke the stalemate with 10:28 to play as McCarron hit Amari Cooper for a 99-yard touchdown that could’ve easily been the dagger.

Instead, the Tigers never bowed out and tied the game with 32 second to play with a 39-yard touchdown connection between Marshall and Sammie Coates.

And all of that was just the prologue for the play that one-upped “The Immaculate Deflection” that happened two weeks prior.

While Griffith and Alabama lined up for a 57-yard field goal, Auburn sent Davis into the end zone to try and return the miss, should it fall short.

And it did.

Griffith, a redshirt freshman who was making his first attempt of the night after starter Cade Foster had missed three field goals that day, didn’t get enough leg on the kick. The kick died about one yard before it could reach the crossbar, but it likely would’ve been wide right, regardless.

Nonetheless, Davis collected it well inside his own end zone and began going to work.

Alabama tight end Brian Volger was perhaps the only player of the Crimson Tide’s to have a real shot at tackling Davis, as he dove at Auburn’s ball carrier near the Auburn 20-yard line, just as Davis was making his turn down the sideline.

But it wasn’t until Davis tiptoed down the sideline and beyond midfield that it began to set in that he’d have a legitimate opportunity to score.

“It was quite possibly the loudest environment I’ve ever heard in my life,” Brunner said.

And we’ve all seen the videos and photos of what happened next as Tigers’ fans poured onto Pat Dye Field. None of those photos, however, were taken by Brunner, who says his biggest regret was never stopping to take a photo of the pandemonium.

Instead, Brunner was left trying to map out the quickest path to Alabama’s media room.

Come to find out, there really wasn’t one.

“We always used to joke that when the student gates opened at Auburn games, it was like poking a stick into an anthill and you just see the flood of people coming in,” Brunner said. “And it was kinda like that, except it was more like getting a big bush full of sticks and just putting it right on top of the anthill and just flooding everywhere.”

Fortunately, Brunner was able to flash his media credential and get some assistance from a security staff member, who helped him weave his way through the chaos.

Once Brunner finally made his way onto the field, he says he did grant himself a second to take it in. As a third-generation Auburn student, Brunner knew what had just transpired would cement itself into Iron Bowl history.

“I’ll never forget the feeling of being on the field with ‘The Hey Song’ playing and the reverse ‘Rammer Jammer’,” Brunner said.

Brunner did, eventually, make it to Saban’s press conference, taking 10 to 15 minutes longer than what it typically did to get to the visiting team’s press room, where there was no celebrating.

“Because of Coach Saban, there obviously wasn’t a lot of talking, I mean it was very professional and whatnot,” Brunner said. “Coach Saban is a class act, obviously. He’s the best to ever do it and is probably the best that will ever do it.”

But most everyone who was at the game working the game had yet to fully wrap their heads around what had just happened.

“There was a bit of disbelief,” Brunner said. “Look, that play has happened before. And I’m sure that play has happened since then. But it’s never happened in a game of that magnitude or in a game of such a meaning to a large group of people.”

Considering he was working that day, Brunner didn’t get the same luxury of his friends who were watched from the Auburn student section and got to experience rushing the field.

But rest assured, Brunner eventually got around to celebrating that evening as he finally made his way back to his apartment, where a handful of friends were waiting on him.

“We had a good time,” Brunner said. “And we celebrated appropriately.”