Week Four of college football has been a crazy one, with Michigan upsetting USC and Oklahoma looking to do the same against Tennessee.
Tennessee is the country’s sixth-ranked team, Oklahoma is ranked 15th, and the Sooners were heavy underdogs in the game.
Kirk Herbstreit Calls Out Oklahoma Player
ESPN’s College Gameday was in Norman, and ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit was on the call for the game and was not having it with a Sooners player who did something unethical.
Sooners defensive tackle Da’Jon Terry decided to fall down after Tennessee picked up a few yards and tried to run “hurry up.”
The Oklahoma defender fell down on purpose, so the clock would have to stop, Tennessee couldn’t run its hurry-up offense, and Herbstreit was not having it.
In a post from On3.com, Andrew Graham Herbstreit stated, “This is college football. It drives me crazy. You look over after a big play, and suddenly, he looks over and goes down. It’s not necessarily against the rules but it’s unethical as hell.”
Kirk Herbstreit called out Oklahoma for ‘unethical’ injury gamesmanship vs. Tennessee:
“This is college football. It drives me crazy. You look over after a big play and all of a sudden, he looks over and goes down. It’s not necessarily against the rules but it’s unethical as… pic.twitter.com/s5DfwRVCV1
— On3 (@On3sports) September 22, 2024
Many college football players do this to stop the opposing offense; usually, the player is okay. The defense is trying to stop the tempo, so they fall down on purpose to stop the action and catch their breath.
This has gone on way too long in college football, and it’s nice to see one of the best ESPN and college football analysts call it out.
It’s hard to punish a college football team for doing it because you don’t know if the player is injured, but this needs to stop because it hurts the game.
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