The Worst College Football Play Of The Season Resulted In A 3rd And 93

In a bit of a bizarre twist, Louisiana Tech hosted Mississippi State for a non-conference battle on Saturday evening. While it isn’t exactly easy to go into Ruston and emerge victorious, Dan Mullen’s team did not have a hard time doing so and covering a modest spread in the process.

With that said, there wasn’t a ton of intrigue left on the field when the visiting team from the SEC was leading 57-14 early in the fourth quarter. Still, Louisiana Tech was trying its best to punch it in on 2nd-and-goal from inside its opponent’s 10-yard line and, if nothing else, a score would have provided a moral victory.

Then, the impossible happened. Louisiana Tech went from having 2nd-and-goal from the six-yard line to third-and-goal… from its own seven-yard line.

The play began with an ill-timed (and comically errant) shotgun snap and that was just the beginning. Both teams quite literally kicked the ball down the field in the wrong direction and, frankly, Mississippi State should have recovered the ball on multiple occasions to complete a turnover. The end result, though, was some solid hustle from Louisiana Tech and the ability to cover it up before the ball caromed into the end zone was somewhat admirable.

It isn’t every day that you see a punt situation created from goal-to-go inside a team’s 10-yard line but this was another level of ineptitude. We might see another play as bad as this one during the 2017 college football season but this is certainly the leader in the clubhouse for worst play of the year.