Craziest "Trick Plays" in College Football History

A trick play! Nobody knew he had the ball, but now he has the end zone! I thought I've seen it all, I've never seen that. 87 yards per contest. Nathan Peterman, back the other way to a lineman. Brian O'Neal, number 70, down the sideline! And O'Neal goes to the end zone for Pitt! That looks like a play maybe Johnny Majors would have designed right there. How about the big fella, Brian O'Neal, left side, he's the edge man on the line. The scrimmage becomes an eligible receiver. This is what you call the old Shucks scream, and it's the big fella that's going to shove it in the end zone. Senior out of Norwalk, Connecticut. Spiffy Evans, back deep to receive for Boston College. It's a fake. Not a fake punt. That is taken by Abdur Rahman, and he is free! Nobody knew he had the ball, but now he has the end zone! Jamal Abdur Rahman from 47 yards, and a fake punt touchdown to get things started in 2013 for Villanova. And the coaches told us about this play potentially coming sometime early in the game. They talked about snapping to the front man. If you see the first guy gets a snap, puts it on the ground, and now he's going to slip off to the left side, and then skate his way down to the field. No one within five yards of him on this run. There's Mark Whipple on the sidelines, the offensive coordinator for the Panthers. Pickett, a very good runner. Don't sleep on those legs. Oh, he faked the slide! Sauce time! Pickett! Touchdown, Pitt! Can't wait to show you that replay. Kenny Pickett. We talked about it earlier in the broadcast. His legs are very underappreciated. But right here, he gets out, he gets out of the hurry, and then what's he do? He hits him with the fake slide! And goes and hits him with the cha-cha. Makes these guys understand that he can not only throw it, but he can run that bad boy, too. He's like, oh, I'm going to slide. Nope, gotcha! Oh, my Lord. Nick Anderson's like, I don't know if I've ever seen that before. Two games. Fifteen red zone possessions and ten touchdowns. Traynor's going to walk in. And a Syracuse touchdown. Everybody goes with the running back, and there's no contain on the outside here for the quarterback. They still don't know that he has the ball. One first down will end this game, as Purdue has the two timeouts left. And LaQuint Allen, oh, it's Garrett Schrader! How far will he go? I don't think he's going to try to score. No, he'll go down inside the 40. Schrader will add and pad to his stats. That puts him nearly 200 yards. He has 191 rushing yards today, and he just sealed the game. Well, watch the fake again. Hide the ball and let his eyes follow the back. I mean, he waited a long time on that one and could have easily scored a touchdown. Purdue, second charge. Timeout will be 30 seconds. Rodwell odds a punt. And it is a fake, as Rodwell takes it ahead to the 39-yard line. You got to roll the dice sometimes, Brock. First down, Georgia Tech. And, Mr. Rodwell, you may want to get your pads down. The contact, but a well-executed play with the exact look they wanted to to put that offense back on the field. It was worth the pain. They go empty. On first down, the whole offensive lineman drops down, and now they got a convoy, and this is going to be a touchdown. What a play called by Campbell. You're going to see that on SportsCenter. Top 10, not top 10. What a play that was. Great design. Guys don't even know what they're doing. I thought I've seen it all. I've never seen that at any level of football. Watch these offensive linemen here. Just, you know, take a little break. Just kidding. We're going to throw it for a house call to our quarterback. You've never seen this before. You might not see it again. And, again, great job by all the offensive linemen selling it. 21 with the beautiful ball to his quarterback. And he's just taking a little trot into the end zone. Great job by the Camels. Mason Donaldson with a touchdown pass caught by the quarterback, Williams. Passer. They're having to defend the run. They give it back to Finley. Open man at the 10. A twisting attempt and catch. Autenreeth made the grab going to the turf. And Tommy gets caught by the turf monster. Gets him. He's wide open. It's a walk-in touchdown. Autenreeth stumbles and makes a circus catch. How about Gillaspie? Does he get the ball out of his hands before his knee touches the ground? Watch the right knee of Gillaspie. And is the ball out of his hands before? Yeah, the ball's gone before the knee comes down. And, boy, it was close. Wow. Hickett throws it back. It's the offensive lineman, Bryce Hargrove, into the end zone. Make it. That's Stefano Millen. Stefano Millen into the end zone for Pittsburgh. The left tackle. They throw it back to him. Something they did many times with Ryan O'Neal over the last several years. Luke Ferguson on a fake punt. Throws, and it's intercepted. Picked up by Kirby. Watch him just slide in, slide in, and then he gets underneath. It's a poorly thrown ball. This is over Kirby's head. It's an easy conversion, and Arkansas State continues this drive. And it looks like they're going to kneel it. Or not. A trick play to Jordan inside the 35-yard line. Trickeration by Louisville. 42-yard gain, and Jeff Robin Company call a timeout, and they are trying to put it on Boston College here. Yeah, right there, we see Jack Plummer take the snap and hand it off to Jowar Jordan. You know, I was saying take a knee, George, because I wanted to keep the momentum and keep the confidence, but if you have a trick play like that to go get 42, why not? Coleman in motion. Plummer with time, clean pocket. Fires one down the field. He's thrashed. We were just talking about how they hadn't gone to him for a big play, and you see it right there. They dial it up. A 42-yard pitch and catch from Plummer to thrash for a touchdown. Goal. Through the legs of Sharp. He's got it. Sharp dives. Touchdown, Virginia. I love it. A little bit of a Statue of Liberty play, right? Benkert rolls out, puts it underneath. Chris Sharp grabs it, and then great explosion on the run and the effort to get it in the end zone. But the leading tackler, very sure tackler in its face. They wanted that matchup. It's a fake. Poole taking off with it, and he stopped up short at the 49-yard line. That wasn't close. In his vision here as he rolls, what he sees is quite an alleyway. The problem is what he doesn't see is the leading tackler, Cinderius Bryant, unblocked. With six straight scoreless drives, they are three touchdowns thus far. They have three touchdowns thus far, and Plummer loses the football. Did it go out of bounds? I think that one got out of bounds. I think that one went out of bounds right there. You could see when you got that big body print. And Spires will come into punt. They'll fake it. Going downfield for Allen, who makes the catch. A gambler here in the final minute-plus of the first half. A pump fake from the punter. As we see a player. Garrett Williams went down hard. They brought him down late. Wright tackled in. Sam didn't pick him up. Ludwig. It's a fake punt. He pops over. Terrell Edmonds has it. Plays in there for the Hokies. They definitely needed a spark. A gadget. That's a jump shot. How about this? Ludwig with this isn't a throw. Watch this form. Watch the technique. That's it. What a catch. And this is about Bronco Mendenhall's comfort zone in terms of trying kicks. This is 29 yards. Oh, and now the Cavaliers are gonna swing it to the left side and they're gonna throw for the tight end. Touchdown for Evan Butts. There is a flag on the play. Connor Brewer, the backup quarterback, made the throw to Evan Butts. There is no foul on the play. Touchdown. Water bucket, as they call it. So many times you see this before they come back in to kick it. They reverse it a little bit. Boom. There's you're gonna see Butts. He just delays, throws it back there. Everybody forgets about him as they go try to make what they think is a stop, running the football behind that offensive line. Heck of a play drawn up. Who's one for two on his early career, having him look at a tighter angle. I like this. Because the distance doesn't make any difference. Just all angle and they fake it. Touchdown, Notre Dame. Holy cow. So you don't take the penalty and then it sets up. What an excellent job by DeSean Kaiser with the fake. The forward, it's actually a pass for a touchdown now. How about that for Kaiser? His first touchdown pass in college comes from a forward flip. O'Leary quarterback. Watch the double pass here. Allen can throw it. And he does, but well over the head of Damian Alford. He's only 6'6". He'd have to be 9'6'' in order to catch that one. Wait a second. Watch what Garrett Schrader does in this play. What? Distraction.