This is a short-yardage formation favored by Kansas State, whose approach to winning involves controlling the clock, avoiding mistakes, and waiting for others to goof up.
Kansas State is using the most compact football formation possible (and it works!)
So much humanity jammed into such a tiny area.
It also involves breaking out farm-raised formations that look more like huddles. Here, something like seven offensive linemen (I’ve had a hard time reading jersey numbers, because players are so close to each other, perhaps they overlap, like in video games) and multiple other big blockers form a force field around quarterback Jesse Ertz and blob their way to a first down conversion.
A few years ago, the NCAA adjusted the rule against blockers pushing ball carriers. It’s allowed. They still can’t pull ball carriers forward, though.
NCAA rulebook
When K-State played Stanford earlier this year, they might as well have played that game in a studio apartment.
And here’s just about the same formation, making an appearance against Texas in October:
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