re: Best Trick Play Against Your Team

2003 OU game. The year prior we had played them at their place and almost pulled off a major upset (watching that ball slip out of Tyler Watts' hand still haunts me to this day). 2003 was, of course, Shula's first year and no one was quite sure what to expect. Oklahoma was his first game in Bryant-Denny as head coach and the Sooners came in ranked number one. The ensuing game pretty much encapsulated what the entire Shula era would look like: extremely hard-hitting defense, not a whole lot of offense, and a bone-headed coaching move that more or less decided things. In the latter half of the third quarter Bama scored a TD to cut the OU lead to 13-10. On the ensuing possession the Bama D held the Sooners to a 3-and-out, except that no they fricking didn't because by this point Stoops had noticed that every single time OU punted, the man we sent out to cover the gunner would try to rush and block the punt instead of following his man downfield. So he had the punter take the snap and then just toss an easy pass over to the absolutely-wide-open gunner, who rambled for a first. The very next play OU hit a long TD pass and that was that.