@@cha0ss0ldier-4 I thought that's what happened but was hard to see. I just heard announcer say that it was legal on the bounce. Should've known they didn't know what they were talking about. Thanks
@@mikegilbert6738 I mean the kicker doesn‘t really do a real kickoff but kinda kicks it into the ground causing the ball to bounce up for the onside kick. That‘s what the announcer was probably talking about. That initial contact into the ground doesn‘t really count as a bounce so the player can still call for the fair catch but I wouldn‘t say the announcer is wrong for referring to it as a „high bounce onside kick“
@@Fatlax73 ehh I don't necessarily blame them for this. They were trying to get their bearings straight from the expectation of a deep kick to focus on the onside and at that point you have to look for the ball and follow it. Unless you're either at the right angle or (like the officials) are focusing on the players you wouldn't even notice the fair catch signal until seeing a replay. Though I would blame them for not noticing multiple OKST players appealing for that fair catch signal right after the play since your focus as a commentator ought to be right there in the seconds following the end of the play.
I watch a lot of Rugby League (slightly different code to the Rugby people think about) and short kick-offs go exactly like this. High bombs off the kicking tee. The thing is, there is no fair catch, and the onside kick success rate is probably 40%. I used to wonder why nobody would try this, especially given there are so many Australians playing as kickers in the US, but my guess is this is the reason - They are all coached that they can fair catch in that situation.
@@jayrodr897 they used to do this in the US as well Rule got changed 3 years ago College it's any onside kick unless it rolls on the ground NFL ITS any kick in the air or a top hit where it goes a yard n pops in the air can be fair caught Otherwise if it goes a few yards n then pops in the air or it's a bouncing kick that rolls on the ground or a linedrive ANY OF THESE KICKS CANNOT BE FAIR CAUGHT and the ball is live (Chicago did this n recovered it because they noticed the opponents had backs turned during kickoffs n they kicked a linedrive n recovered it
That is the most "heads-up" play that I've seen in years. What knowledge and what awareness by 22 and his coaching staff to have that minute of a rule drilled into his memory. Pretty sweet clip
@@MickeyMouse-lm6zj because most of the time on an onside kick the ball is kicked along the ground bouncing. This one didn’t bounce, he just kicked it in the air around 13 yards which you hardly ever see.
Given the way the rest of the team reacted, that had to be a coached thing. Frankly, had the kicker not chipped the ball in the air, he wouldn't have had the oppoortunity.
Nobody ever says this but props to the refs for properly calling this and not being flabbergasted like the rest of us on the rarity of a play like this.
It's rare because onside kicks are normally intentionally drilled into the ground which eliminates the ability to call a fair catch. If they were all kicked on the fly like this then calling for a fair catch on an onside kick would be commonplace.
@@Rowgue51 According to the description box, the rule was changed last year that you can still get fair catch protection even if it's a single "drill" into the ground with a big hop.
Refs messed this up, that wasn't a valid fair catch signal, one single wave of the arm is not valid, the rule is specific in that it must be waved more than once, not to mention it is only valid within your own 25 yard line and is touchback to the 25.....there was no penalty as the kick did not go past their 25 yard line and was not a legal signal.
Fair catches inside the 25 are placed at the 25. Fair catches caught outside the 25 are spotted at the catch. There is no rule about where the can be called
@@MickeyMouse-lm6zj It's because usually for onside kicks the kicker will kick it in a way where it bounces first which then disallows the ability to fair catch. In this case the ball never hit the ground, so similar to a punt, you can fair catch. You'll notice most onside kicks will have the kicker intentionally have it bounce to prevent fair catch shenanigans
@National Sports Entertainment You have to be alert to the onsides kick and not panic, you have to make sure that you are the only one calling for the fair catch to prevent an invalid fair catch signal, and you have to assess whether or not you should be the one to call it, all of that in about 2 seconds.
@National Sports Entertainment - Why would receiving teams not use this fair-catch rule in every case of an “onside” kick? Well, think about it; the answer should be pretty obvious. Not every such kick is a “bloop”, arcing a relatively short distance off the tee, or off the bounce from the ball’s first strike on the ground. Some “onside” kickoffs instead skip low along the ground, and once the ball has bounced •twice•, a fair catch is not permitted.
@National Sports Entertainment onside kicks are usually kicked low so that it starts bouncing randomly and becomes unpredictable. in this one specfic case it hadn't bounced yet
This play is being shown in every special teams room this week. Guaranteed. Heads up play by the player and good job on the coach for all players knowing it.
@@JonHop1 This has been in the rule book for decades, and when I first heard this could be done, not even seen it, I questioned why it should be allowed on kickoffs/free kicks on contactless catches
@@TeamFish15 It did bounce, it was one high bounce if you look closely. But as long as the ball is elevated and the receiver can be camped in a vulnerable way to receive the ball he can call for fair catch, whether it bounces or not is irrelevant.
@@bweezy2372 gosh, I just read that rule and you’re right. That was a brilliant play and I’m sure everyone will be calling fair catches on onside kicks now making it virtually impossible for the kicking team to recover it. They’ll probably change that rule, like they did when Kenny Pickett did the fake slide against Wake Forest in the ACC Championship.
The announcers don't fully understand the rule. For a pooch kick (which this is) or a pop-up kick (immediately grounded and then into the air) if there is a receiving team player in position to catch the ball the kicking team player can't touch it while airborne. The only thing the fair catch signal does is protect the receiving team player from contact after completing the catch.
The foul was because the kicking team player touched it before the receiving team player in position to catch it. That's a foul whether or not he signals for a fair catch. The ball becomes dead as soon as the kicking team gets possession which is what they did. That becomes the enforcement spot for the 15 yard KCI penalty. The slight contact was irrelevant. The receiving team will signal fair catch for the same reason they do on a punt. Protection for AFTER they complete the catch.
@UCcGtNWy6WBBd0S2SH5fhiFg There is no such thing as an onside kick in the rule book. There are rules around what has to happen before the kicking team can legally touch the ball so most onside kick attempts follow them. That's why most onside kicks will have the ball dribble or bounce twice so the rules that apply in this play are not a factor. This would have been fine if there were no receiving team players in position to catch it or he let the ball hit the ground first and then recovered. The fair catch signal only protects the receiver AFTER he completes the catch. Nothing changes on this play with no fair catch signal.
According to the NCAA rule book, “a fair catch of a free kick is a catch by a Team B player who has made a valid signal during an untouched free kick.” Additionally, the rule book states that “during a free kick, a player of the receiving team in position to receive the ball has the same kick-catch and fair-catch protection whether the ball is kicked directly off the tee or is immediately driven to the ground, strikes the ground once and goes into the air in the manner of the ball kicked directly off the tee.” For all the “iF hE BoUncED It tHEy CaNT cALL a FaIr cATch” people
Don't act like you knew that shit without looking.... I didn't think this was allowed or else we would have seen it before. Also. This is not allowed in the NFL. Not that it matters since it's a college game. But still. Never ever ever ever has this been played like this. Pretty much, no matter what, the person can call for a fair catch every onside.
@@Cruzkilla88 He's saying if the ball bounces off the ground in the NFL then a fair catch won't be valid, they obviously have fair catches. I'm not positive he's right, but I would assume he is or EVERY team would be utilizing this. I've seen so many bloops like this in the NFL, and Belicheck is a walking rulebook. In terms of college, this is a broken rule if you ask me though. The guy didn't even hit the player calling fair catch, he got to the ball first is all. I don't see how in this scenario the rule is protecting the player.
So basically you can’t do an onside kick with one big bounce anymore?! I get that it didn’t happen here, but according to the announcers, even if it had bounced once, he still could have used fair catch. This is taking away yet another already extremely difficult play to perform right out of the game.
Yes you can. It has to be driven to the ground immediately. Then you can call a valid fair catch. If the ball is kicked something like 5 yards, then bounces, then no. Then there is no fair catch.
Bro that’s a 2000 IQ play. So good the announcers didn’t even catch on or even the Texas Tech bench until they reviewed it. Dude deserves a trophy just for that
Bruh can't nobody have an IQ that high. If you did either your head would explode or you would become Professor X. And that player definitely didn't manipulate the other teams minds so this comment is fake news.
The ball was kicked to perfection because it is considerably easier to kick a ball like this than bouncing it first, but its a bad play because of what happened in this play.
Thats kind of messed up. That takes s whole part of the game away. There needs to be an amended no fair catch within 20 yards. Without it, there wont be an onside kick ever again. Everyone will just immediately fair catch and the kicking team will get the ball. This is a huge flaw.
There are two reasons for the change: 1. A high bounce kick like this forces receiving players into bad positions where they're stuck looking up at the sky while multiple full-speed players are bearing down on them, making them a completely defenseless target. 2. It's incredibly hard to tell whether or not a ball like this is a single bouncer or an air kick. Fair catching a bouncer was previously a penalty in and of itself (I believe in college, it is in the NFL). Simplifies the rules for both players and referees to limit mistakes. Even in this case, everyone assumed it was a bouncer, but frame-by-frame it actually looks like a straight up air kick.
@@Alex-lf5oz Nope. No bounce on this one. He kicks from the bottom of the ball and it goes up from there with no bounce off of anything other than his foot. Start at :25 and go at .25 speed.
In addition to the fact that an onside kick must go ten yards before being touched... if I'm not mistaken, we were taught in high school that an onside kick should hit the ground.
As a true ohio state fan MSU is better than the other school...and no one from that school is great or good besides Braylon Edward's who I met on a golf course in Detroit....and I respectfully told him the same
@@dariusbelk well, as an OSU fan to the end, mo matter our results. If you think Hart, Robinson, Hemingway Jr, Devin, etc were never worth any salt, you're just mot a good judge of (at least) college athletes. And I didn't even name many, ofc. Can't wait for them to (hopefully) get ROCKED real soon though.
It's smart to take advantage of the rule, but it's a bad rule that should be abolished. E.g. Don't allow a fair catch if the ball bounces off the ground.
@@PoochieCollins You have no idea what you are talking about. The only reason he can call a fair catch is because the ball never hit the ground, the distance does not matter you can call a fair catch prior to the ball's first contact with the ground. The kicker was dumb and kicked it straight up allowing the returner to call fair catch and establish himself under the ball making it impossible for the kicking team to get the ball unless he muffs it
@@neekovo9256 while, yes I do agree with you about it being “dumb” to not bounce it off the ground. I still think no other team is calling a fair catch on that
@@neekovo9256 Agreed. Realistically this is an atrociously bad play by the kicker. Any special teams coach should know why you always bounce it first on an onside kick. This guy never practiced this in front of any coach on their team?
@@GoPoketheBird 100% agreed, I was replying to the person saying this was a dumb rule. I was simply stating it is just the objective rules for any kick ever, most people just know not to do an onside kick like this
@@JarradBruessel32 Yeah, I think you're right. If he bounced it a fair catch is irrelevant. Although I'm not 100% sure of that since the commentators said it was a new rule.
I did this once in a game when I was a kid and the other team leveled me. Blew the strap and ear pieces off my helmet 😆 I was called a few choice words as well.
Pretty sure it was just kicked directly into the air, which can always be a fair catch regardless of where it is on the field. This is the reason why teams always drive the ball into the ground first on an onside kick, and also the reason behind a "squib kick", so teams must field it and lose time off the clock. As for this "new rule" where you can do it off of one bounce, I don't know, I haven't heard of this.
Looks like the "One Bounce" Rule was put it the NCAA in 2018. I was like WTF? But yes, it can hit the ground once, then go into the air, and be Fair Caught.
Yes, but the bounce must be immediate off the tee. You can not let the kick bounce after 40 yards and then call a fair catch. The bounce must be immediate.
I’m not sure if what the announcer said about the high bounce kicks is true, but it shouldn’t matter in this case. The kicker kicks the ball upwards straight off the tee. It’s a fair catchable ball regardless.
Because surprise onsides work more than an expected one, and it's from what I can tell an unranked team playing a ranked team, Texas tech probably thinks they need some trickery to win
I feel like that's just Big 12 football tbh 😂 I'm an SEC fan so I can't confirm, but if there's one conference I expect to see this type of stuff in, it's the Big 12
Tech is the fastest team in Big 12, and they wanted to steal a possession to force OSU to play catch-up all game long. As it was, Tech had over 100 offensive plays in the game.
I don't know shit about the game despite playing it for probably 14 years. If you can call fair catch on onside kicks, doesnt it render all onside kicks moot by definition?
@@thegadflygang5381 Nope. There's a reason kickers try to make the ball bounce or dribble along the ground when they kick onside. If the ball hits the ground, you can't call a fair catch on it. This kicker put it straight up in the air which opened up the fair catch shenanigans
@@HoodWeegee ahhh so the bounce is what makes it moot. I am surprised I have never seen this before you would think the whole receiving squad would be calling for fair catches the second the ball is kicked hoping for the best.. cant say i like the rule but appreciate the clear explanation i had no clue
What high bounce is this commentator talking about? There was no bounce in this kick, it went straight up. He was so hyped they recovered the on side kick he did not pay attention.
@@jyashin your right, I finally saw it on my big screen & not my phone it definitely bounced. I did not know college football had that rule. Kinda takes away the onside kick
The commentator got it wrong - the ball never bounced, which is why he can call for the fair catch. The ball is rotating backwards. If it had bounced, it would be rotating forwards.
Not at all. he kicked the ball straight up, it never touched the ground. Had he kicked it so it bounced off the ground, like almost all fair kicks are, then he couldn’t fair catch it. This is just a HUGE heads up play by OK State
We see this so many times, announcers try to go for 'sound bites' rather than actually paying attention to the game, thus their over reaction. There is one particular announcer who does this time after time in games, always trying to yell, even on the most simple plays, most of you probably know who I am talking about, on every third and ten conversion late in games you'd swear the team that converted won the game right then!
It's a new rule. Previously you couldn't call fair catch if the ball bounced first. That's why onside kicks were always driven into the ground first. Now you can call fair catch on a ball kicked from the tee or driven directly into the ground first. Any bounce after that makes it a live ball
So he called the fair catch, and they legally have to allow him to catch it. Is that because he popped it up in the air without the ball hitting the ground? Like, if he skipped it off the ground like a lot of kickers do, is the rule still applicable? This exact play might be why kickers choose to dribble the ball across the ground instead of kicking it high in the air and hoping for a 50/50 ball
You can call a fair catch only if the ball is kicked upwards or directly downwards and has bounced only once. If it bounced further away from the kick line or bounces twice after the first bounce is directly after the kick, you can not call a fair catch.
Every ST coach tells their guys to call a fair catch if it goes straight up and you are on the front lines. Thats why kickers are told to kick it straight into the ground
It's not a bogus rule. If you want to attempt an onside kick, and you don't want the other team to be able to call for a fair catch, don't kick it in the air. Kick it along the ground like everyone else has been doing for 50 years. I get the idea. Catch them off guard. But it doesn't matter how off guard you catch them if they know the rules of football.
The announcer got this wrong; it wasn’t a traditional “one high bounce” onside kick. It was a short pop that never hit the ground. If the ball were kicked like a traditional onside kick, along the ground hard with a high bounce, the ball would not be playable as a fair catch.
@@tommykern2336 wrong, the ball bounced. You can see his foot angle down toward the turf. The rule was changed a few years ago, the commentator was 100% correct
Of course you can and it should not be taken off. No matter if the kick is 10 yards or 50 yards, you can call an onside. Difference is the bouncing ball which can not be called as a fair catch.
I would prefer if on all *live ball* kicks (so kickoffs and free kicks) that there just wasn’t a catch condition, but only a contact condition for what cannot be done when a fair catch is called
That's the reason for the bounce or why they kick it at players. It has to touch either the opposing player or the inside of the play area for the kicking team to recover it.
You guys commenting don't understand what happened. The ball was driven into the ground and bounced. In the NFL, you cannot call a fair catch here, but for safety reasons, college made a change that allows you to call a fair catch even if the ball has bounced. This is what happened here.
That's genuinely nuts. My man had about half a second to realize what was happening and make the motion before the kicking team was on the ball. Talk about playing every moment, was this dude even playing on anything other than special teams, cause if not he needs another look lol.
Lol. At first I'm like, yeah this can't be real. There's no way an onside kick travelled through the air at least 10 yards. No kicker can be THAT stupid. Well, I was proven wrong. That's some brilliant football IQ man. Great stuff.
usually when they do an onside kick, they kick it into the ground and then it pops up. You can't call fair catch on those. This guy just straight up kicked it up
Wait, what? But that didn't even fall under the fair catch rule established in 2018...did they change it? In order to qualify as a fair catch, the ball must be caught within the return team’s 25-yard line. When caught, the fair catch results in a touchback and the offense begins play on the 25-yard line. So they called a fair catch, and the officials gave it to them on their opponents 35 yard line? That is a double foul not following the fair catch rule...one it wasn't caught inside their own 25 and two they were given VERY preferential field placement in violation of the rule as I know it to read? It isn't at the point of the "wrongfully" called penalty, at best it would have been back on their own 25, but for that to happen they would have had to have called it and caught it within their own 25....such poor officiating in my opinion! Additionally, he only waved his hand once, that is a violation of article 2 of the free catch rule as it states he must wave it more than once. Valid Signal ARTICLE 2. A valid signal is a signal given by a player of Team B who has obviously signaled his intention by extending one hand only clearly above his head and waving that hand from side to side of his body more than once.
Wow this would have been fun to watch live, especially if your team is OkSt! Perfect execution by everyone on both teams, and great heads up play by the player who called fair catch. So it looks like the rules favor the receiving team in this case. Is that what we prefer in this case? Just asking, thinking it over, seems more like a “loophole”. But then again this is college, so these are younger adults and if it adds protection against head trauma then it’s probably for the best.
Blows my mind how people think this is a “heads up play” and how smart he was. I don’t think you guys realize how much hands team is practiced each week, let alone how much the coaches constantly remind players to call fair catch on a single bounce.
Blows my mind how you think a college kid couldn't forget what he has been taught, I mean I don't think you realize how much time linemen practice to not be offsides yet still do or running backs practice not to fumble but still do or qbs practice to not throw interceptions but still do or wide receivers practice to run correct routes and catch ball but still don't. This was 1st kickoff of game and kid reacted like a star....props deserved now take your troll somewhere else you wannabe football coach.
@@LSBBD not a troll when you actually play college football and knows what happens at practices each and every week… bet you didn’t know special teams have film studies also and usually plan to expect something tricky. Nice try though loser.
Is this legal in the nfl? If so, this should be highlighted and studied by everyone on special teams moving forward. This was so brilliantly pulled off 👏
If it bounced you can’t call a fair catch. The announcers thought you could call a fair catch on a bounce. They need to be suspended immediately for not understanding the rules of football.
I'm not understanding how this doesn't completely kill EVERY obvious onside kick. If a team is down by a score with seconds to play and they need to get the ball (again), they onside kick. Why would every receiving team just not call fair catch?
In case anyone was wondering, Oklahoma State won the game 41-31 to remain undefeated, dropping the Red Raiders to 3-3. It started out as a very back-and-forth kind of game, but the OK defense dominated the fourth.
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I didn't think you could call fair catch if it bounced already...learned something new
@@mikegilbert6738 it didn’t bounce. That’s why it was legal
@@cha0ss0ldier-4 I thought that's what happened but was hard to see. I just heard announcer say that it was legal on the bounce. Should've known they didn't know what they were talking about. Thanks
@@mikegilbert6738 I mean the kicker doesn‘t really do a real kickoff but kinda kicks it into the ground causing the ball to bounce up for the onside kick. That‘s what the announcer was probably talking about. That initial contact into the ground doesn‘t really count as a bounce so the player can still call for the fair catch but I wouldn‘t say the announcer is wrong for referring to it as a „high bounce onside kick“
Announcer: "I mean, you're just not ready for it!!!!!!"
OKST Player: *completely and totally ready for it*
Ah Texas Tech! What an unexpected kick. And by unexpected I mean... COMPLETELT EXPECTED!
The fact it took like 2 mins for them to realize what had really happened shows you they don't even know what is going on. Terrible announcers....
@@Fatlax73 ehh I don't necessarily blame them for this. They were trying to get their bearings straight from the expectation of a deep kick to focus on the onside and at that point you have to look for the ball and follow it. Unless you're either at the right angle or (like the officials) are focusing on the players you wouldn't even notice the fair catch signal until seeing a replay. Though I would blame them for not noticing multiple OKST players appealing for that fair catch signal right after the play since your focus as a commentator ought to be right there in the seconds following the end of the play.
That guy needs to take it down a few notches Jesus christ
The announcers are useless. How didnt either of them catch that?
the way every single OKST player started appealing to the ref with the fair catch symbol this was definitely coached
I watch a lot of Rugby League (slightly different code to the Rugby people think about) and short kick-offs go exactly like this. High bombs off the kicking tee. The thing is, there is no fair catch, and the onside kick success rate is probably 40%. I used to wonder why nobody would try this, especially given there are so many Australians playing as kickers in the US, but my guess is this is the reason - They are all coached that they can fair catch in that situation.
Thats some belichek shenanigan's.
sure it was coached but the correct guy has to signal for it and still get interrupted. It's fucking brilliant
High IQ observation
@@jayrodr897 they used to do this in the US as well
Rule got changed 3 years ago
College it's any onside kick unless it rolls on the ground
NFL ITS any kick in the air or a top hit where it goes a yard n pops in the air can be fair caught
Otherwise if it goes a few yards n then pops in the air or it's a bouncing kick that rolls on the ground or a linedrive
ANY OF THESE KICKS CANNOT BE FAIR CAUGHT and the ball is live
(Chicago did this n recovered it because they noticed the opponents had backs turned during kickoffs n they kicked a linedrive n recovered it
That is the most "heads-up" play that I've seen in years. What knowledge and what awareness by 22 and his coaching staff to have that minute of a rule drilled into his memory. Pretty sweet clip
why don't people always do fair catches then
@@MickeyMouse-lm6zj because most of the time on an onside kick the ball is kicked along the ground bouncing. This one didn’t bounce, he just kicked it in the air around 13 yards which you hardly ever see.
@@kalen1702 You are still permitted to fair catch a kickoff that bounces
@@fishbone3333 This only works if it bounces one time or less, I believe.
@@fishbone3333 it has to be on the first bounce though
I feel so bad for Texas Tech. They did their part perfectly, it just happened to be against the one guy who knew how to counter it.
Given the way the rest of the team reacted, that had to be a coached thing. Frankly, had the kicker not chipped the ball in the air, he wouldn't have had the oppoortunity.
@@backhurts11 I was disagreeing that Texas tech did their part perfectly. The kick was obviously not a perfect kick.
Not perfect. They hit a guy who called for a fair catch.
I mean it's an inside kick. It's not rocket science bro.
Nope. Never pop it up like that. Ever.
Nobody ever says this but props to the refs for properly calling this and not being flabbergasted like the rest of us on the rarity of a play like this.
It's rare because onside kicks are normally intentionally drilled into the ground which eliminates the ability to call a fair catch. If they were all kicked on the fly like this then calling for a fair catch on an onside kick would be commonplace.
@@Rowgue51 According to the description box, the rule was changed last year that you can still get fair catch protection even if it's a single "drill" into the ground with a big hop.
Refs messed this up, that wasn't a valid fair catch signal, one single wave of the arm is not valid, the rule is specific in that it must be waved more than once, not to mention it is only valid within your own 25 yard line and is touchback to the 25.....there was no penalty as the kick did not go past their 25 yard line and was not a legal signal.
Good for the refs knowing the rules of the game they're officiating, hell yeah. 👍
Fair catches inside the 25 are placed at the 25. Fair catches caught outside the 25 are spotted at the catch. There is no rule about where the can be called
HIGH IQ play, saved his team
@@texys5848 lol
That is a smart play. But it's a stupid rule. This will take some excitement out of the onside kick.
@@jamesmead8460 It’s not a new rule.
The kicker didn’t bounce the ball like they normally do on onside kicks. That’s why it was legal.
@@jamesmead8460 this has always been a rule what are you talking about
Couldn't of kicked the ball better, but yeah since it didn't hit ground first the fair catch saved them
Big props to the coaching staff for teaching that so much it was muscle memory for the kid.
Big props to this Man for executing perfectly.
They coaching staff is going to be so happy you gave them big props
if you can fair catch onside kicks why don't people always do it
@@MickeyMouse-lm6zj It's because usually for onside kicks the kicker will kick it in a way where it bounces first which then disallows the ability to fair catch. In this case the ball never hit the ground, so similar to a punt, you can fair catch. You'll notice most onside kicks will have the kicker intentionally have it bounce to prevent fair catch shenanigans
Can't coach intelligence.
Not only high IQ, but thinking on your feet under pressure. Quite nice.
More high IQ coaching. Everyone near the play starts appealing to the refs after it happens which makes it seem a lot like this was coached
It was coached, not like he just thought of it out of nowhere
He don't wanna get rocked by a bunch of guys rullrushing him
@KiNG bro shut up. You know what he meant.
@KiNG bullrushing, obvious typo.
It didn't bounce, the ball was lifted clean off the tee, so the fair catch was absolutely valid.
Very smart play.
even if it did take one bounce the rules state that you can still fair catch it, anything more than one and a fair catch can’t be called
@National Sports Entertainment You have to be alert to the onsides kick and not panic, you have to make sure that you are the only one calling for the fair catch to prevent an invalid fair catch signal, and you have to assess whether or not you should be the one to call it, all of that in about 2 seconds.
@@trevorvondenstein5173 I can't find that rule anywhere in the rule book? Are you sure that is a real rule?
@National Sports Entertainment - Why would receiving teams not use this fair-catch rule in every case of an “onside” kick? Well, think about it; the answer should be pretty obvious. Not every such kick is a “bloop”, arcing a relatively short distance off the tee, or off the bounce from the ball’s first strike on the ground. Some “onside” kickoffs instead skip low along the ground, and once the ball has bounced •twice•, a fair catch is not permitted.
@National Sports Entertainment onside kicks are usually kicked low so that it starts bouncing randomly and becomes unpredictable. in this one specfic case it hadn't bounced yet
He's clearly earned his spot on the field
Belichick would draft him in the sixth round
This play is being shown in every special teams room this week. Guaranteed. Heads up play by the player and good job on the coach for all players knowing it.
For sure. The NFL too.
things like this are ruining football...
So are onside kicks basically impossible now???
@@xGatorchomp28x no, you just can’t sky the ball 10 yards, it forces it to hit the ground first
@@JonHop1 This has been in the rule book for decades, and when I first heard this could be done, not even seen it, I questioned why it should be allowed on kickoffs/free kicks on contactless catches
I love how the commentators have absolutely no clue what's going on until a producer got in the guy's ear and explained it to him.
I love how you had no idea about this until you watched this video. Smh 🤦🏼♂️
@@WhyIsThisHappening83 I knew this was a rule. This is why you drill the ball into the turf.
@@Kylora2112 should probs stop talking before you embarrass yourself more lol.
Yeah these commentators for this game suck
Yeah it’s called watching it live
Excellent play by both teams, well executed onside kick and even better IQ from the OKST player/team using that rule. Great special teams play
I say Oklahoma takes the 🎂 , because Texas was planning this and Oklahoma had to think on the fly literally, which was scary rare in high IQ
Not a good onside kick because if it bounced first the other player couldn’t have called a fair catch.
@@TeamFish15 It did bounce, it was one high bounce if you look closely. But as long as the ball is elevated and the receiver can be camped in a vulnerable way to receive the ball he can call for fair catch, whether it bounces or not is irrelevant.
@@bweezy2372 gosh, I just read that rule and you’re right. That was a brilliant play and I’m sure everyone will be calling fair catches on onside kicks now making it virtually impossible for the kicking team to recover it. They’ll probably change that rule, like they did when Kenny Pickett did the fake slide against Wake Forest in the ACC Championship.
@@bweezy2372 that's a horrible rule, I guess end of fair catch.
It’s so Texas Tech of us to execute a perfect onside kick and it still doesn’t go our way 😂. Love to see it.
That’s because it wasn’t executed perfectly.
@@leehunter4049 what else could we have done
@@nickinportland Bounced the kick off the turf more than once and not into the air where fair catch can be signalled.
@@stevenclark5173 lol ok steve a good onside kick is that your point 😂
Man hit the entire team with a full counter 😂
That’s a perfect example of knowing what’s in the rule book and what’s NOT in the rule book, genius play by #22 from OSU
The announcers don't fully understand the rule. For a pooch kick (which this is) or a pop-up kick (immediately grounded and then into the air) if there is a receiving team player in position to catch the ball the kicking team player can't touch it while airborne. The only thing the fair catch signal does is protect the receiving team player from contact after completing the catch.
@@footballvideos7778 sorry but why was the kicking team able to catch it then? And why would Oklahoma call a fair catch?
The foul was because the kicking team player touched it before the receiving team player in position to catch it. That's a foul whether or not he signals for a fair catch. The ball becomes dead as soon as the kicking team gets possession which is what they did. That becomes the enforcement spot for the 15 yard KCI penalty. The slight contact was irrelevant.
The receiving team will signal fair catch for the same reason they do on a punt. Protection for AFTER they complete the catch.
@@715SF Oklahoma State, not Oklahoma.
@UCcGtNWy6WBBd0S2SH5fhiFg There is no such thing as an onside kick in the rule book. There are rules around what has to happen before the kicking team can legally touch the ball so most onside kick attempts follow them. That's why most onside kicks will have the ball dribble or bounce twice so the rules that apply in this play are not a factor. This would have been fine if there were no receiving team players in position to catch it or he let the ball hit the ground first and then recovered. The fair catch signal only protects the receiver AFTER he completes the catch. Nothing changes on this play with no fair catch signal.
According to the NCAA rule book, “a fair catch of a free kick is a catch by a Team B player who has made a valid signal during an untouched free kick.” Additionally, the rule book states that “during a free kick, a player of the receiving team in position to receive the ball has the same kick-catch and fair-catch protection whether the ball is kicked directly off the tee or is immediately driven to the ground, strikes the ground once and goes into the air in the manner of the ball kicked directly off the tee.” For all the “iF hE BoUncED It tHEy CaNT cALL a FaIr cATch” people
Don't act like you knew that shit without looking.... I didn't think this was allowed or else we would have seen it before. Also. This is not allowed in the NFL. Not that it matters since it's a college game. But still. Never ever ever ever has this been played like this. Pretty much, no matter what, the person can call for a fair catch every onside.
@@bbmiller1088 fair catching a kickoff is 100% allowed in the NFL lol. There's a free kick rule specifically for it.
@@Cruzkilla88 He's saying if the ball bounces off the ground in the NFL then a fair catch won't be valid, they obviously have fair catches. I'm not positive he's right, but I would assume he is or EVERY team would be utilizing this. I've seen so many bloops like this in the NFL, and Belicheck is a walking rulebook.
In terms of college, this is a broken rule if you ask me though. The guy didn't even hit the player calling fair catch, he got to the ball first is all. I don't see how in this scenario the rule is protecting the player.
@@bbmiller1088 mad cause you're stupid 😂
@@clarencethomas01 The receiver MUST be given space to catch the ball. Considering the kicking team 'got there first', it's a foul.
I love how the announcer says “you don’t expect this on the first kickoff” which clearly they did lol
So basically you can’t do an onside kick with one big bounce anymore?! I get that it didn’t happen here, but according to the announcers, even if it had bounced once, he still could have used fair catch. This is taking away yet another already extremely difficult play to perform right out of the game.
Yes you can. It has to be driven to the ground immediately. Then you can call a valid fair catch.
If the ball is kicked something like 5 yards, then bounces, then no. Then there is no fair catch.
@@RoyalMelawell that's part of the problem. "Immediately" can be interpreted in different ways.
Bro that’s a 2000 IQ play. So good the announcers didn’t even catch on or even the Texas Tech bench until they reviewed it. Dude deserves a trophy just for that
I see high schoolers do it all the time. Maybe college players simply forget that the fair catch is an option.
Probably because the announcers suck, it was not that hard to see
Bruh can't nobody have an IQ that high. If you did either your head would explode or you would become Professor X.
And that player definitely didn't manipulate the other teams minds so this comment is fake news.
@@MJIZZEL 🤓
@@MJIZZEL You cannot be serious 😅
Whatever coach taught him that has to be proud. Wow thats football IQ right there.
Gundy
mullet man
Good ol' Mike Gundy. HE'S A MAN! HE'S FORTY!
Intelligent play. It has been sad to slowly watch the death of the onside kick in football though. That ball was kicked to near perfection
couldn't agree more
Was kickers fault for not putting it into the ground...it never touched the ground and stayed in the air so he called fair catch
The ball was kicked to perfection because it is considerably easier to kick a ball like this than bouncing it first, but its a bad play because of what happened in this play.
On the contrary, it never bounced.
@@kdutta9 If he kicked it into the ground so it bounced before the fair catch was called that would have been better
Thats kind of messed up. That takes s whole part of the game away. There needs to be an amended no fair catch within 20 yards. Without it, there wont be an onside kick ever again. Everyone will just immediately fair catch and the kicking team will get the ball. This is a huge flaw.
They specifically changed the rule to allow for this result. It’s an abomination.
There are two reasons for the change:
1. A high bounce kick like this forces receiving players into bad positions where they're stuck looking up at the sky while multiple full-speed players are bearing down on them, making them a completely defenseless target.
2. It's incredibly hard to tell whether or not a ball like this is a single bouncer or an air kick. Fair catching a bouncer was previously a penalty in and of itself (I believe in college, it is in the NFL). Simplifies the rules for both players and referees to limit mistakes. Even in this case, everyone assumed it was a bouncer, but frame-by-frame it actually looks like a straight up air kick.
So whats the rule with calling for a fair catch on every onside kick? They just cant touch you? Confused lol.
You can only call fair catch if the ball doesn't hit the ground, or if it bounces once inside of 5 yards.
That’s smart, I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often.
teams usually bounce the ball on the onside kick to get around a fair catch.
not many people can think that fast lol
Under pressure it dosent seem like a thing to do
@@Alex-lf5oz Nope. No bounce on this one. He kicks from the bottom of the ball and it goes up from there with no bounce off of anything other than his foot. Start at :25 and go at .25 speed.
@@Alex-lf5oz no they didn't. it's was a straight pop up.
One of the highest IQ moments I’ve ever seen in football. Reacted on the spot to something very unexpected
As someone who was at the game, they did not explain this at all. We just presumed that Tech had touched the ball before it went 10 yards.
It went about 13.
In addition to the fact that an onside kick must go ten yards before being touched... if I'm not mistaken, we were taught in high school that an onside kick should hit the ground.
That was some of the most impressive on-the-fly thinking I've seen in college ball in a long time. Hus ability to quick-react like that was excellent.
Glad to see Devin Gardner is doing well and able to make a living with football. Even as an Ohio State fan, I always thought he was a quality guy.
Devin Gardner is awesome. Monday Morning Quarterback is required listening for any UM football fan.
As a Michigan State fan, I totally agree. Good dude.
As a true ohio state fan MSU is better than the other school...and no one from that school is great or good besides Braylon Edward's who I met on a golf course in Detroit....and I respectfully told him the same
@@dariusbelk well, as an OSU fan to the end, mo matter our results. If you think Hart, Robinson, Hemingway Jr, Devin, etc were never worth any salt, you're just mot a good judge of (at least) college athletes. And I didn't even name many, ofc. Can't wait for them to (hopefully) get ROCKED real soon though.
That is great coaching and awareness because no other team would’ve ever thought to do that that’s the first time I’ve ever seen that happen
It's smart to take advantage of the rule, but it's a bad rule that should be abolished. E.g. Don't allow a fair catch if the ball bounces off the ground.
@@PoochieCollins You have no idea what you are talking about. The only reason he can call a fair catch is because the ball never hit the ground, the distance does not matter you can call a fair catch prior to the ball's first contact with the ground. The kicker was dumb and kicked it straight up allowing the returner to call fair catch and establish himself under the ball making it impossible for the kicking team to get the ball unless he muffs it
@@neekovo9256 while, yes I do agree with you about it being “dumb” to not bounce it off the ground. I still think no other team is calling a fair catch on that
@@neekovo9256 Agreed. Realistically this is an atrociously bad play by the kicker. Any special teams coach should know why you always bounce it first on an onside kick. This guy never practiced this in front of any coach on their team?
@@GoPoketheBird 100% agreed, I was replying to the person saying this was a dumb rule. I was simply stating it is just the objective rules for any kick ever, most people just know not to do an onside kick like this
Would they not be allowed to call a fair catch if it had been a bouncing kick? Kicker just kicks it up
Good question.
Can't fair catch it if it hits the ground first.
No. Only was allowed cause ball was in the air
@@JarradBruessel32 Yeah, I think you're right. If he bounced it a fair catch is irrelevant. Although I'm not 100% sure of that since the commentators said it was a new rule.
@@Fletchman1313 I don't think the commentator knew what he was talking about
I did this once in a game when I was a kid and the other team leveled me. Blew the strap and ear pieces off my helmet 😆 I was called a few choice words as well.
"Good eyes Deon Gardner". Get out of here with that. Both of them missed it as they were too busy fluffing Texas Tech.
That OKST player knows the rules and has great awareness. You love to see it.
Pretty sure it was just kicked directly into the air, which can always be a fair catch regardless of where it is on the field. This is the reason why teams always drive the ball into the ground first on an onside kick, and also the reason behind a "squib kick", so teams must field it and lose time off the clock.
As for this "new rule" where you can do it off of one bounce, I don't know, I haven't heard of this.
Yeah, on the slo-mo it didn't look like the ball went toward the ground at all when it was kicked, so I would say you are right.
Looks like the "One Bounce" Rule was put it the NCAA in 2018. I was like WTF? But yes, it can hit the ground once, then go into the air, and be Fair Caught.
I've never seen a one-bounce kick. Most onside kicks bounce several times.
Yes, but the bounce must be immediate off the tee. You can not let the kick bounce after 40 yards and then call a fair catch. The bounce must be immediate.
I’m not sure if what the announcer said about the high bounce kicks is true, but it shouldn’t matter in this case. The kicker kicks the ball upwards straight off the tee. It’s a fair catchable ball regardless.
Seems the NCAA changed the Rule in 2018, and One Bounce, into the Air, then Fair Catch is true. Crazy!
For blind Thomases like me, the fair catch is at the bottom of the screen by the player on the 50-yard line at 0:45
Wow, 22 with amazing football IQ to recognize what was going on and react so quickly in the heat of the play. Outstanding!
The real question is, why is Texas Tech doing an onside kick in the first quarter up by 7?
Because surprise onsides work more than an expected one, and it's from what I can tell an unranked team playing a ranked team, Texas tech probably thinks they need some trickery to win
I feel like that's just Big 12 football tbh 😂 I'm an SEC fan so I can't confirm, but if there's one conference I expect to see this type of stuff in, it's the Big 12
Tech had a slow start vs Kansas state the week prior and emphasized getting ahead early this week
Tech is the fastest team in Big 12, and they wanted to steal a possession to force OSU to play catch-up all game long. As it was, Tech had over 100 offensive plays in the game.
Well coached and smart. Even the “expert announcers” didn’t get it.😂
Yea funny they said surprising everyone but It only surprised them and Texas
I don't know shit about the game despite playing it for probably 14 years. If you can call fair catch on onside kicks, doesnt it render all onside kicks moot by definition?
@@thegadflygang5381 Nope. There's a reason kickers try to make the ball bounce or dribble along the ground when they kick onside. If the ball hits the ground, you can't call a fair catch on it. This kicker put it straight up in the air which opened up the fair catch shenanigans
@@HoodWeegee ahhh so the bounce is what makes it moot. I am surprised I have never seen this before you would think the whole receiving squad would be calling for fair catches the second the ball is kicked hoping for the best..
cant say i like the rule but appreciate the clear explanation i had no clue
@@thegadflygang5381 @lord popo fair catch can be called off the 1st bounce or in air. It can not be called if it is tumbling down field.
What high bounce is this commentator talking about? There was no bounce in this kick, it went straight up. He was so hyped they recovered the on side kick he did not pay attention.
An onside kick bounces off the ground immediately after the kicker kicks it.
@@jyashin your right, I finally saw it on my big screen & not my phone it definitely bounced. I did not know college football had that rule. Kinda takes away the onside kick
The commentator got it wrong - the ball never bounced, which is why he can call for the fair catch. The ball is rotating backwards. If it had bounced, it would be rotating forwards.
For that to happen on the first play, and for him to think to do that is really amazing.
He really didn't do anything special. He had protection whether he signaled or not. That was going to be a 15 yard penalty regardless. Rule 6-4-1.
Not sure why they said it was the first play of the game. It was 7-0 Texas with just over 12 minutes in the quarter
Wasn't the first kickoff. It followed Texas Tech's touchdown.
That rule just defeats the whole purpose of the onside kick.
lmao
Not at all. he kicked the ball straight up, it never touched the ground. Had he kicked it so it bounced off the ground, like almost all fair kicks are, then he couldn’t fair catch it. This is just a HUGE heads up play by OK State
@@BullpupKing In 2018 the NCAA changed it. They are allowed One Bounce, then up in the Air, then Fair Catch.
1000 iq play
Gundy and OK State are under appreciated. Seems like they’re solid year in and year out.
Cool story..nobody cares
@@kenbard6371 You cared enough to comment.
@@bsu-xw1ln nobody cares
@@kenbard6371 You cared enough to comment…twice.
@@bsu-xw1ln nobody cares moron
We see this so many times, announcers try to go for 'sound bites' rather than actually paying attention to the game, thus their over reaction. There is one particular announcer who does this time after time in games, always trying to yell, even on the most simple plays, most of you probably know who I am talking about, on every third and ten conversion late in games you'd swear the team that converted won the game right then!
Dude hit the full uno-reverse card.
Smart guy
This is an obvious play in a straight up onside situation. In a surprise onside situation its a fantastic play. Awesome job.
how has football gone on this long without this happening
It's a new rule. Previously you couldn't call fair catch if the ball bounced first. That's why onside kicks were always driven into the ground first. Now you can call fair catch on a ball kicked from the tee or driven directly into the ground first. Any bounce after that makes it a live ball
So he called the fair catch, and they legally have to allow him to catch it. Is that because he popped it up in the air without the ball hitting the ground? Like, if he skipped it off the ground like a lot of kickers do, is the rule still applicable? This exact play might be why kickers choose to dribble the ball across the ground instead of kicking it high in the air and hoping for a 50/50 ball
Horrible rule to allow a fair catch there, it will kill the onside kick
Now everyone on the front line is going to be waving their arms to call fair catch everytime 😂.
Under the current ruleset, that is the correct way to field this kick.
You can call a fair catch only if the ball is kicked upwards or directly downwards and has bounced only once. If it bounced further away from the kick line or bounces twice after the first bounce is directly after the kick, you can not call a fair catch.
Yes you can, but then again, you can not return the ball. No matter who catches it and where.
I bet Texas Tech has done this in the past and OSU had practiced it. Mike Gundy is a top 10 coach.
Or they watched bama do it to clemson
In the post-game interview, Gundy said they drill it in practice.
Every ST coach tells their guys to call a fair catch if it goes straight up and you are on the front lines. Thats why kickers are told to kick it straight into the ground
That’s called an uno reverse card right there. They tried to sneak an onside kick and wound up giving the other team the ball at the 50.
Now that someone thought of it everyone is gonna try it, okst broke the onside kick
Most teams already know. you never see onside kicks done like this for exactly this reason
Kicking team knows to put the ball into the ground so he knew not to kick it in the air like that to give em a chance to call that fair catch
That's a knowing the rules moment
That’s a bogus rule, but a very smart play by 22
It's not a bogus rule. If you want to attempt an onside kick, and you don't want the other team to be able to call for a fair catch, don't kick it in the air. Kick it along the ground like everyone else has been doing for 50 years. I get the idea. Catch them off guard. But it doesn't matter how off guard you catch them if they know the rules of football.
Just when you think you're two steps ahead, it turns out they're three steps ahead
The announcer got this wrong; it wasn’t a traditional “one high bounce” onside kick. It was a short pop that never hit the ground. If the ball were kicked like a traditional onside kick, along the ground hard with a high bounce, the ball would not be playable as a fair catch.
NCAA changed the Rule in 2018. They can have One Bounce and Fair catch.
@@marvinmange4805 shit guess I was wrong lol
IVE BEEN WATCHING FOOTBALL FOR 35 YEARS AND THE THOUGHT OF A PLAYER CALLING FAIR CATCH ON AN ONSIDE KICK HAS NEVER EVEN ENTERED MY MIND. VERY CLEVER
Because the commentator got the rule wrong. It's not a new rule for high bounces - he can call the fair catch because the ball never bounced.
Rule 6-4-1 ¶f
@@tommykern2336 wrong, the ball bounced. You can see his foot angle down toward the turf. The rule was changed a few years ago, the commentator was 100% correct
Wouldn’t be surprised if they end up changing the rule where you can’t do that on an onside kick. But a great heads up play.
Of course you can and it should not be taken off. No matter if the kick is 10 yards or 50 yards, you can call an onside. Difference is the bouncing ball which can not be called as a fair catch.
I would prefer if on all *live ball* kicks (so kickoffs and free kicks) that there just wasn’t a catch condition, but only a contact condition for what cannot be done when a fair catch is called
"Does this apply to the NFL?", a lot of NFL players right now.
It does. You can signal fair catch on any kick on the fly. This is why you drill the kick into the turf instead of trying to pooch kick it on an arc.
That's the reason for the bounce or why they kick it at players. It has to touch either the opposing player or the inside of the play area for the kicking team to recover it.
They know it does. They were probably taught the rule in middle school like the rest of us.
@@christianguzman8228 NOT TRUE
You guys commenting don't understand what happened. The ball was driven into the ground and bounced. In the NFL, you cannot call a fair catch here, but for safety reasons, college made a change that allows you to call a fair catch even if the ball has bounced. This is what happened here.
Hilarious. Not sure why you go for onsides that early into a game but great that they got punished
That’s a dumb rule. You shouldn’t be able to call fair catch on a kick-off because both teams are supposed to have equal chance to go for the ball.
Good call by a good coach. Way to go Gundy and crew
That was possibly the most brilliant on the spot football decision I've ever seen.
And now we'll never see an onside kick again
The only chance teams have to come back and win a game when they are down has now been taken way for safety… it’s an onside kick wtf
That's genuinely nuts. My man had about half a second to realize what was happening and make the motion before the kicking team was on the ball. Talk about playing every moment, was this dude even playing on anything other than special teams, cause if not he needs another look lol.
Makes sense
Lol. At first I'm like, yeah this can't be real. There's no way an onside kick travelled through the air at least 10 yards. No kicker can be THAT stupid. Well, I was proven wrong. That's some brilliant football IQ man. Great stuff.
Were you "like" it or did you "think" it?
Props to the kid and the special teams coach. That's phenomenal coaching right there. OMGosh
I love seeing this!! I hate cheesy onside kicks. I get why they do them..but just don’t other teams need to take notes!!
so onside kicks are pointless now with the wave of an arm.
How is the title so chill about this play.
This is one of the most big brain plays this year
The last announcer did a great job explaining it.
Fucking genius!!! He shifted the momentum instantly with that heads up play.
Can’t believe that’s Devon Gardner, who I believe was the guy who played QB for Michigan. Never heard him call a game, but sounds well versed.
That's former Sagamihara Rise QB Devin Gardner. Yup, he played professionally in Japan for a couple of years. And wore 98 as the QB.
“How can we take advantage of all these stupid new safety rules again episode 31”
If that kid ends up not going into the NFL, I'm going to do my best to hire him for something. I need people like him.
..so you can fair catch any onside kick that isn’t a roller? That seems too easy.
That's why they roll it
Well what if the kicker whiffed and didn't mean to kick an onsides kick?
That rule he says about high bounce does not exist, just an announcer making shit up
usually when they do an onside kick, they kick it into the ground and then it pops up. You can't call fair catch on those. This guy just straight up kicked it up
@@megatroneata9911 which makes it even crazier that this guy recognized that in complete surprise so quickly
Smart play. Great coaching. Think this will be a standard drill very soon.
They could only call a fair catch because the kicked didn't bounce. Wouldn't work unless
Devin Gardner having better eyes in the booth than he did playing QB
There goes onside kicks
Just means you have to hit it down first and bounce it. This one wasn't bouncing.
And this doesn’t apply at all in nfl, since there is no fair catch for kickoff
@@JarradBruessel32 but that’s just what he did, he hit it down and it bounced???
@@toddster2721 Fair catches exists on kickoffs in NFL too. You can even do it on Madden.
@@jasonboness3871 wrong, it was in the air the whole time
Wait, what? But that didn't even fall under the fair catch rule established in 2018...did they change it? In order to qualify as a fair catch, the ball must be caught within the return team’s 25-yard line. When caught, the fair catch results in a touchback and the offense begins play on the 25-yard line. So they called a fair catch, and the officials gave it to them on their opponents 35 yard line? That is a double foul not following the fair catch rule...one it wasn't caught inside their own 25 and two they were given VERY preferential field placement in violation of the rule as I know it to read? It isn't at the point of the "wrongfully" called penalty, at best it would have been back on their own 25, but for that to happen they would have had to have called it and caught it within their own 25....such poor officiating in my opinion!
Additionally, he only waved his hand once, that is a violation of article 2 of the free catch rule as it states he must wave it more than once.
Valid Signal
ARTICLE 2.
A valid signal is a signal given by a player of Team B who has obviously signaled his intention by extending one hand only clearly above his head and waving that hand from side to side of his body more than once.
Wow this would have been fun to watch live, especially if your team is OkSt! Perfect execution by everyone on both teams, and great heads up play by the player who called fair catch. So it looks like the rules favor the receiving team in this case. Is that what we prefer in this case? Just asking, thinking it over, seems more like a “loophole”. But then again this is college, so these are younger adults and if it adds protection against head trauma then it’s probably for the best.
Blows my mind how people think this is a “heads up play” and how smart he was. I don’t think you guys realize how much hands team is practiced each week, let alone how much the coaches constantly remind players to call fair catch on a single bounce.
Blows my mind how you think a college kid couldn't forget what he has been taught, I mean I don't think you realize how much time linemen practice to not be offsides yet still do or running backs practice not to fumble but still do or qbs practice to not throw interceptions but still do or wide receivers practice to run correct routes and catch ball but still don't. This was 1st kickoff of game and kid reacted like a star....props deserved now take your troll somewhere else you wannabe football coach.
@@LSBBD not a troll when you actually play college football and knows what happens at practices each and every week… bet you didn’t know special teams have film studies also and usually plan to expect something tricky. Nice try though loser.
Is this legal in the nfl? If so, this should be highlighted and studied by everyone on special teams moving forward. This was so brilliantly pulled off 👏
Yes, but the kickers there have it already drilled to have it bounce twice
Signaling for a fair catch nerfs the onside kick. I see rule changes coming. Hard to see if the ball was popped up or bounced into the ground.
I love when they think they are smart and then find out someone is smarter.
I'm not looking forward to when that gets normalized. No one's going to onside-kick anymore. It'll make games way less interesting
No one will do high onside kicks. Fair catches aren't valid on onside kicks after a bounce.
If it bounced you can’t call a fair catch. The announcers thought you could call a fair catch on a bounce. They need to be suspended immediately for not understanding the rules of football.
Whereas you have no risk in being wrong.
Little did we all know he was just waving to his mom at the exact right time.
I'm not understanding how this doesn't completely kill EVERY obvious onside kick. If a team is down by a score with seconds to play and they need to get the ball (again), they onside kick. Why would every receiving team just not call fair catch?
In case anyone was wondering, Oklahoma State won the game 41-31 to remain undefeated, dropping the Red Raiders to 3-3. It started out as a very back-and-forth kind of game, but the OK defense dominated the fourth.
An LSU player would’ve botched the play and fumbled the ball away to the other team 😂