OU gimme the headset: Fake field goal

 

Published: December 3, 2006

Stoops should've just let Thompson throw Bob Stoops reached into his bag of tricks late in the first half — or did he? Stoops ordered a fake field goal on 4th-and-6 from the Nebraska 30-yard line with 50 seconds left in the second quarter.

Trouble was, no one in Arrowhead Stadium should have been expecting anything but a fake. Garrett Hartley was going to try a 47-yard field goal on a sub-freezing night? K...


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