Fans Are Disgusted After Ole Miss Player Fakes Injury To Stop The Clock

Week Five of the college football season started off where Week Four left off, with college football players faking injuries to stop the clock, and this time, it happened with Ole Miss.

Last week, during the Tennessee vs. Oklahoma game, one of the Sooner’s defensive linemen fell down on purpose and faked an injury to stop the Tennesssee’s hurry-up offense. ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit called it unethical.

Many people agreed with Herbstreit’s take; fans want it out of the game. However, stopping it will be hard since nobody knows if the player is injured or not. The same thing happened in the Kentucky vs. Ole Miss game Saturday afternoon.

Ole Miss Player Fakes Injury

Ole Miss HC Lane Kiffin — Mississippi head coach Lane Kiffin ponders a reporter’s question during a news conference following an NCAA college football practice, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, in Oxford, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

During the first half of the Ole Miss game, Rebels running back Matt Jones fell down on purpose after quarterback Jaxson Dart told him to fall.

Usually, the defense fakes an injury to stop the opposing offense from running the hurry-up, but this time, it was the offense, which was odd.

Blatant fake injury from Ole Miss vs. Kentucky😬

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— On3 (@On3sports) September 28, 2024

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Many fans are sick of seeing games stopped by players faking injuries, and they have taken to social media to express their opinions and reactions on the subject.

How is this not a penalty yet

— Ice Cold Football (@icecoldfootball) September 28, 2024

Of course it’s Ole Miss.

— DukeBallMinisterOfPropoganda (@DukePropoganda) September 28, 2024

Need to outlaw this immediately—Players who stop the game for an injury need to be held out of the game for the rest of the possession

— Timothy Johnson (@MiamiCanes1971) September 28, 2024