WATCH: Runningback Jackson He becomes first Chinese-born to score a touchdown in NCAA Div1 FBS history

Friday night’s game had long been out of reach when Arizona State‘s Jackson He scored on a 1-yard run in the fourth quarter.

Arizona State’s players acted as if he had just scored the winning touchdown against rival Arizona.

A walk-on, He is believed to be the only Chinese-born player in the Football Bowl Subdivision, and the Sun Devils have celebrated his heritage by putting his name in Chinese on the back of his jersey.

The redshirt junior entered in the fourth quarter Friday and, after Rachaad White stepped out at the 1 to give his teammate a chance to score, bulled through a defender into the end zone for what Arizona State said was the first touchdown by a Chinese-born player in FBS history.

He pointed to the back of his jersey and was mobbed by teammates after the score. The support continued with tweets from around the world, long after Arizona State’s 70-7 road victory.

“I’ve already received a lot of messages,” said He, who picked Jackson as his American name because he’s a Michael Jackson fan. “I strongly feel their love for this game and for me. I’m so grateful.”

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Not long after, Twitter exploded too.

He became the first Chinese-born player to score a touchdown in an FBS game. By the postgame press conference, he was trending nationally on Twitter and receiving messages from back home.

“It’s unreal. It’s unbelievable,” He said. “It’s crazy, all the support from my teammates and all the love from everybody on my team.”

After scoring, He pointed to the nameplate on the back of his jersey, which has his name written with Chinese lettering.

“I’m representing something different. Having this nameplate on my back is really cool,” he said. “I’m thankful for the equipment room at ASU … it’s just mad love, like crazy.”

Head coach Herm Edwards started putting in younger players as the score blossomed out of Arizona’s reach. The coach put He in with the intention of the running back getting a couple plays.

“I didn’t know we were going to give him a full series in there!” Edwards said. “I thought he was going to get one or two carries, but he stayed in there.”

“He thought he was setting up Jackson He for the touchdown there. It was a little early, we weren’t getting him in at that point,” Hill said.

“Seeing him score, it was truly an honor,” White said. “Jackson, he’s a friend of mine, close friends. Been that way since I’ve been here.”

He, who chose his first name because of Michael Jackson when he moved to the United States, got his chance in the fourth quarter instead. It seems he listened to the pop icon’s advice in a song that played at the stadium pregame — “you better run, you better do what you can” — and got the ball over the goal line just before the defender threw him out of the end zone.

That put the icing on the cake for ASU, who also took some advice from the name of that song in the 70-point performance.

As He’s press conference ended, he paused for a moment and pointed at his shirt for reporters on the other end of the Zoom call. He said:

“Right here, it says, ‘Everything is possible’ in Chinese.”

As the only known Chinese-born person in CFB, He showed that Friday as he became the first to score.

“I’m the first one, but I’m not the last one,” he said. “There’s going to be more Chinese stepping on this stage and scoring.”