If you’re a fan of misguided fake kicking attempts, these are the halcyon days. Last weekend brought us an Army fake punt try on fourth-and-44, and Thursday gave us BYU’s fake punt on a fourth-and-19 from its own 5-yard line. Neither worked.
Michigan State tried for a 28-yard fake field goal TD run as the half expired. Nope.
Dear college football coaches: Your specialists are not that fast.
Now, Michigan State’s joined the fray.
This, at first glance, is a run-of-the-mill failure. It happens sometimes.
But it’s dumber than it looks, because there were only two seconds left in the first half of MSU’s 14-14 game against Maryland on Saturday. The Spartans were on Maryland’s 28 and could’ve tried a 46-yard field goal, but they decided, instead, to have kicker Michael Geiger attempt to run 28 yards for a more lucrative touchdown. He got 4.
Right now, it’s clearly en vogue for teams to ask their kickers and punters to run extraordinarily long distances to get first downs, or touchdowns, or what have you.
Maybe it’s a good trick, because no one expects it. Or maybe it’s silly, because kickers and punters are bad at running away from people.
The Spartans could’ve gone about this a lot better. They should know!
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