What are your favorite plays in college football?

[K2C Sooner]

I seen this topic on another message board site and thought it was an excellent subject we might discuss. The other site only talked offense, but what the heck, how about defense also. This is not about an individual player that made a great play, but the actual play calls that succeed during a given game.............Here's mine:

Offense: The handoff up the middle between the tackles. I love it when I see a Perine take it for 10 to 15 yards after the offense line has totally destroyed the defense front seven. Throw in a great block from the full back\ H Back and it's even better. Nothing better to open up the pass.

Defense: Well this might be different, but I love it when we kick it out of the end zone when we kick off and yes it's a defensive play. I absolutely hate to see a team start on the 40 or 50 yard line after a great run back. It shortens the field and gives our opponents a added advantage.

That's mine.


Discuss?

 

[opk]

I like the one where OU runs a play on offense and the referee raises both arms above his head.

TD.

 

[sybarite]

Counter or inside reverse.

 

[Oklabama]

My favorite play is the Utah pass.....and I love to watch a successful hook and lateral followed by the statue of liberty for a 2 point conversion......wait a minute!!
This post was edited on 3/19 11:33 AM by Oklabama

 

[Section22Sooner]

The "Kick Six".

I've only seen it once, but it happens now and then. The record-setter was November 2013 in the Iron Bowl played at Auburn, AL.

Tie score, 28-28 with 30 seconds remaining in the game. The Crimson Tide lines up for a 57-yard game winning FG. But the ball falls short and is caught by Chris Davis, who runs it the length of the field (and then some) for a game winning TD. When I saw that, I finally realized that I have seen it all in CFB.


This post was edited on 3/19 12:33 PM by Section22Sooner

 

[Schoonerman]

Originally posted by Oklabama:


My favorite play is the Utah pass.....and I love to watch a successful hook and lateral followed by the statue of liberty for a 2 point conversion......wait a minute!!

This post was edited on 3/19 11:33 AM by Oklabama

Ditto on the Utah pass. No one ran this play better than Quentin Griffin. He could hide behind those big lineman, take the "pass" and pop up the middle for a big gain. Loved it when we ran this play.

Or course the "old school" Sooner that I am, nothing was prettier than watching Thomas Lott, Jamelle Holieway, JC Watts and Danny Bradley execute the wishbone to perfection!

 

[Oklabama]

Originally posted by Section22Sooner:

I'll have to think about my favorite Offensive and Defensive play. But my ALL TIME favorite play came on Special Teams.

November 2013 in the Iron Bowl played at Auburn, AL.

Tie score, 28-28 with 30 seconds remaining in the game. The Crimson Tide lines up for a 57-yard game winning FG. But the ball falls short and is caught by Chris Davis, who runs it the length of the field (and then some) for a game winning TD. When I saw that, I finally realized that I have seen it all in CFB.

A little off topic, but my "now I've seen everything in college football' moment was back in 1978 when Clemson intercepted an Ohio State pass leading 17-15 with under two minutes to play.....then Woody Hayes punches the Tigers' Charlie Bauman on the sidelines....basically Woody blindsided him. I was shocked but laughed my ass off. Never liked Hayes, but the man did win 5 national championships so he was one of the best regardless that he was a jerk of guy.

 

[Oklabama]

Originally posted by Schoonerman:

Originally posted by Oklabama:




My favorite play is the Utah pass.....and I love to watch a successful hook and lateral followed by the statue of liberty for a 2 point conversion......wait a minute!!


This post was edited on 3/19 11:33 AM by Oklabama

Ditto on the Utah pass. No one ran this play better than Quentin Griffin. He could hide behind those big lineman, take the "pass" and pop up the middle for a big gain. Loved it when we ran this play.

Or course the "old school" Sooner that I am, nothing was prettier than watching Thomas Lott, Jamelle Holieway, JC Watts and Danny Bradley execute the wishbone to perfection!

Exactly, Schoonerman. Q made it look so simple. I wish we would find a way to run that play successfuly again sometimes. Oh, yeah.....the wishbone plays OU ran over the years were fantastic.
This post was edited on 3/19 12:37 PM by Oklabama

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Yeah, I fondly remember all those fabulous Wishbone plays.
(OU didn't invent the wishbone...we just perfected it and made it a science) (Long live the KING)

All those QBs that ran it...Holieway, I suppose some would say he 'owned' the damn thing better than the others.

It wasn't until Miami painstakingly recruited the players, and assiduously figured out how to stop it, that it was the Gold Standard for prolific offenses...ever.

To put it in poker parlance...it was the Royal Flush to the Ace...virtually unbeatable...

 

[Oklabama]

When Jamelle was healthy, Miami was the only team that beat him and one of those games was when he took over for Troy Aikman as a true freshman. He lost again in Miami in 1986 but didn't get to play for the championship in the Orange Bowl against the Canes in '87 because he injured his knee that year against OSU. He was never again the same QB but gutted it out for during his senior as a backup behind Danny Bradley. When Bradley got hurt, Jamelle started but we lost to Clemson in his final game as Sooner. I know that he got into some trouble, but appears to have come back around, and he is one of my favorite Sooners.

 

[CTOkie]

Bradley's last season was 1984, the year before Holieway was recruited.

 

[Plainosooner]

I agree with Bob Stoops. My favorite plays are scoring plays.

 

[Oklabama]

Originally posted by CTOkie:
Bradley's last season was 1984, the year before Holieway was recruited.

You are right, CT. That would be Thompson, not Bradley that Holieway replaced after Charles was lost for the season. If you knew that Bradley wasn't the QB Jamelle replaced, why didn't you post it was Thompson rather Bradley. Then I wouldn't have had to look it up to be sure I was right this time. LOL

 

[bcsoonerfan]

It's hard to beat a well executed play action bomb after hammering it with the run game for a few plays.

I miss watching Gresham streaking down the hash mark.