Update: UGA Student Misses Halftime Kicks

Updated 5:30 a.m. Tuesday

Acworth's Jonathan Pahlas was no more successful kicking under bowl game pressure than Blair Walsh.

Walsh missed a field goal that would have won the Outback Bowl for Georgia on Jan. 2. Pahlas missed four kicks at halftime of Monday night's BCS championship game that would have won him a boat, a motorcycle, an RV and a home makeover from Allstate.

Three of the grad student's kicks went wide left, and one fell short as he tried to get off five attempts from 40 yards out in 60 seconds, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Original Report

There's still a chance this bowl season for a student from Acworth to make a clutch field goal for glory, according to Athens Patch.

Jonathan Pahlas, a UGA marine sciences graduate student from Acworth, won a drawing to attempt a 40-yard field goal for $100,000 in prizes during halftime in tonight's national championship game between SEC rivals LSU and Alabama.

Pahlas, who has never kicked much of anything, will have 60 seconds to make up to five attempts to win a home makeover, an RV and a boat, the Athens Banner-Herald reports.

He's been practicing at since he found out about his opportunity.

“It hasn’t really hit me,” Pahlas told The Red and Black. “I know I’ll be real nervous when it happens. I’m nervous enough when it’s just my friends watching trying to help me out.”