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re: Post your team’s best punt return ever
Posted on 6/29/25 at 11:44 pm to NorthEndZone
Posted on 6/29/25 at 11:44 pm to NorthEndZone
OBJ also had a good one
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Posted on 6/30/25 at 1:42 am to JacieNY
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best punt return by a Sooner was by Joe Washington vs USC.
Thats the first thing I thought of when I read the thread title.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 7:22 am to Rzrbackguy
75 Yard Punt Pinning UT at Their Own 1!
Might be the best UGA punt of all time....certainly in the top 5-10.
Might be the best UGA punt of all time....certainly in the top 5-10.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 7:28 am to Rzrbackguy
I have no idea who he was but Georgia Tech had a punter who was about 6 feet tall and weighed probably 400 pounds, black kid so kind of unusual for a kicker, who could kick the hide off a ball. I was at Grant Field once when Tech was playing UVA and that son of a gun took the snap with his feet almost on the back line of the end zone and kicked the ball to the UVA 9 yard line...that is about 100 yards. And it was not a line drive. It seemed like it was in the air for about 10 seconds...hit at about the 9.5 and about 6 inches in bounds and bounced out at the 9. The crowd of about 700 people....it was Georgia Tech and Virginia after all, was deadly silent...mor so han the normal Tech crowd which sounds like a funeral parlor and not a stadium most of the time....it was an incredible punt. I think Tech may had actually won that game...
Posted on 6/30/25 at 8:00 am to Zgeo
Perkins gets the nod for TD total, but I'll take Auburn's two in 1972 as the GOAT punt returns given the opponent, their stature and the circumstances in the game at the time of the punts.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 8:08 am to Rzrbackguy
Posted on 6/30/25 at 8:49 am to LSUtigerNVegas
What a weak arse penalty
Posted on 6/30/25 at 11:35 am to wesfau
Second the Punt Bama Punt suggestion
Posted on 6/30/25 at 11:39 am to 1801
I really enjoyed the Ace Sanders return against Missouri. I believe it was 2012 or 2013, one of Missouri's first seasons in the SEC. Maybe first trip here.
Edited to actually post the video because after rewatching after the first time in a while it still amazed me.
Edited to actually post the video because after rewatching after the first time in a while it still amazed me.
This post was edited on 6/30/25 at 11:42 am
Posted on 7/2/25 at 12:39 am to Rzrbackguy
Halloween.
Posted on 7/2/25 at 1:52 am to TigerSooner
Tyrann Mathieu had a 62 yard punt return for a touchdown against UGA during the SEC Championship in 2011 but he had a second punt return that was nearly unbelievable. He was tripped up at the toes by a diving defender after juking several UGA players. Had he scored a second punt return TD on that play it might've been one of the better punt returns I've ever seen. Video of the punt return starts at 4 minutes 02 seconds in this video.
Posted on 7/2/25 at 2:54 am to NorthEndZone
Kick 6 has to be up there since the punter was allowed to kick off the ground.
Posted on 7/2/25 at 8:40 am to Rzrbackguy
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This post was edited on 7/2/25 at 8:41 am
Posted on 7/2/25 at 8:43 am to TigerintheNO
Hard to top the Cannon punt return for historic value.
The ref runnng down the sideline wasn’t a ref. He was an Ole Miss fan who snuck into the game in his high school ref’s uniform. He couldn’t get a ticket to the game outside the stadium, so he went back to his car, put on his ref’s uniform (he refereed high school games in Mississippi) and walked into the stadium through the officials’ gate. No one challenged him, so he stayed on the sideline for the whole game, True story.
The ref runnng down the sideline wasn’t a ref. He was an Ole Miss fan who snuck into the game in his high school ref’s uniform. He couldn’t get a ticket to the game outside the stadium, so he went back to his car, put on his ref’s uniform (he refereed high school games in Mississippi) and walked into the stadium through the officials’ gate. No one challenged him, so he stayed on the sideline for the whole game, True story.
Posted on 7/2/25 at 9:44 am to Tarpon08
That was a close game but damn, State looked like they had 8th graders out there trying to tackle Chad Jones
Posted on 7/2/25 at 10:26 am to JamalMurry27
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didn't even know tyreke went there. Nice
This return is known as "the repunt" and is kind of to OU fans what the "kick six" is to Alabama fans.
OU had already punted the ball down to the OSU 19 yard line and Hill had fair caught the ball with very little time left in the game.
There was a penalty on OSU... The resulting yardage wouldn't give OU a first down and inexplicably... Bob Stoops decided to "repunt" to Tyreek Hill.
And this was the result. As opposed to having the lead and OSU pinned down at their own 20 yard line with very little time left... The game was suddenly tied and went to OT.
Posted on 7/2/25 at 10:49 am to Rzrbackguy
Posted on 7/2/25 at 12:21 pm to Rzrbackguy
Posted on 7/2/25 at 12:29 pm to TigerintheNO
then got steam rolled!
Posted on 7/2/25 at 12:31 pm to JamalMurry27
Probably the Arenas punt return vs LSU in 07 or the Waddle punt return vs LSU .
This post was edited on 7/2/25 at 12:40 pm
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