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Where did Lamar Jackson go to college? Ravens' QB once made whole stadium gasp with leap vs. ACC foe

Have you ever been in a stadium that all gasped collectively as one? It's an astounding sound.

That's what happened on Sept. 9, 2016 in the Carrier Dome. Lamar Jackson and Louisville were in town to take on Syracuse.

And that day, Jackson played one of the most astounding halves of football anyone in that building had ever seen, capped off by a gasp-inducing leap.

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Where did Lamar Jackson go to college?

The current Baltimore Ravens' superstar Lamar Jackson played his college football at Louisville.

It was in that 2016 season when he first took the country by storm. Before then, no one had really considered him among the best players in college football.

The week before visiting Syracuse, Jackson threw six touchdowns against Charlotte. But the matchup with the ACC foe could've potentially provided a sterner test.

The Orange were no match.

Jackson threw a 72-yard touchdown over the top of the defense on the first possession to James Quick.

Then he added rushing touchdowns of 72 yards, 13 yards and seven yards to take a rapid-fire 28-7 lead.

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That's when the gasp happened.

Jackson ran a familiar read option play with his running back, Jeremy Smith, who didn't get the handoff and was blown up by an SU lineman. Jackson took off in a race for the left pylon, but his path appeared to be blocked by Syracuse defensive back, Cordell Hudson. Hudson went low, and Jackson rose up.

As Jackson was in mid-air, clearly over Hudson, the building unleashed the same sound all at once.

Everyone, no matter the color of shirt, was in awe.

Jackson crossed the goal line, it was 35-7, and Heisman Watch was on.

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Lamar Jackson's Heisman Trophy season

Jackson rode the momentum of that Syracuse game all the way to the Heisman Trophy.

The next week, he ran for 146 yards and four more touchdowns on the ground in a win over Florida State. Two weeks later, he ran for another 162 yards and two touchdowns in a highly anticipated matchup with Clemson.

Then he threw for more than 300 yards against North Carolina State and Virginia. And he ran for more than 100 yards against Duke, Boston College, Wake Forest and Kentucky.

He finished the year with 3,543 passing yards and 30 touchdowns to go with 1,571 rushing yards and 21 more touchdowns.

Jackson had one more college season, finishing third in the Heisman voting in 2017 to Baker Mayfield.

He went to the Ravens 32nd overall in 2018 despite some absurd analysts saying he shouldn't be a quarterback in the NFL.

Clearly, he's one of the best QBs to ever do it, and his star really began when he leaped over an entire human on that fall Saturday in Syracuse nearly a decade ago.