Best Trick Play Against Your Team

I swear everytime we have tried that fake field goal it has worked....until the refs throw a flag. The holding when we did it vs Bama in 2019 was such a frustratingly bad call.


but ol Les...he knew how and when to call them.

One of the most famous trick plays in all of college football history was in 1937 when Vandy beat LSU on a hidden ball play.

The play began with Vanderbilt in the Single Wing unbalanced to the left. The quarterback, Reinschmidt, aligned behind the left guard. Hinkle, the center snapped to the quarterback as all four backs begin sweeping to the left.


The left tackle, Ricketson, feigned injury and while LSU’s yearbook indicates he fell to the ground, other accounts say he squatted in position. Either way, as the quarterback moved left, he handed the ball to Ricketson.


LSU’s defense bit on the fake and pursued Vanderbilt’s sweep. The image above suggests Ricketson had his left knee on the ground, but it is unclear whether he possessed the ball at that point. The play should have been called dead if Ricketson possessed the ball while his knee was on the ground. However, if he had placed the ball on the ground, he was free to pick it up and run with it.

Ultimately, Ricketson picked up the ball as two teammates led the convoy 51 yards downfield for a touchdown, much like the fumblerooski that came decades later.


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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.

Any of the Les Miles fakes, wherein every single person watching on TV or in the stadium was thinking watch for the fake except the entire coaching staff of Florida.

Pick one:

1) Boise State, 2007: hook & ladder

2) Boise State, 2007: statue of liberty

Ooof

blue ridge tiger- Thanks for posting this play. I had heard about it but never had sen it. My last name is Ricketson which is an unusual name but have no idea who this Vandy Ricketson is.

fsu fake punt to steal momentum and win it all.

That was great for us, but against us….
1998 Kentucky I remember everyone screaming it’s a fake yet lsu went for the block. Kentucky gained enough yards to make a manageable field goal with zeros on the clock. Daily advertiser