With a 28-17 lead over Memphis in the Boca Raton Bowl and just over 30 seconds to play in the first half, Western Kentucky looked like it would just do a kneeldown play and take things into the locker room. Instead, it did this.
This WKU fake kneeldown took an amazing trick play and made it even more savage
The Hilltoppers added an extra fake to the beginning of one of college football’s best trick plays.
This is yet another example of the Little Giants play that South Dakota State ran just a couple of weeks ago in its FCS Playoff loss to North Dakota State. It works like this.
The concept here is simple. First, you hide a little guy behind a bunch of big guys, and you make the big guys look like they’re still setting pre-snap protection calls. Then you get two guys going the opposite way to distract the defenders and get their eyes and/or their bodies flowing in the wrong direction. And finally, you send the ball carrier the other direction with a small convoy of blockers who are unengaged. It’s similar to a fumblerooski, except the ball itself isn’t the only thing being obscured; an entire ball-carrier is, too.
Plenty of other teams have done it over the years, but without the kneeldown fake:
The difference here is the context. You’ll always have the element of surprise with this play, but the Hilltoppers turned it up a notch by pretending they weren’t even going to run a play at all.
WKU ended up winning, 51-31.
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