Oklahoma Punt Gets Blocked, Lose Game - Here's Why!

The #3 team in the Nation lost on 9/27/20 after getting a punt blocked with just over 8 minutes left in the game. Kansas State easily tied the game right after blocking this punt, and then went on to kick a field goal to beat them. The ENTIRE game hinged on this play, and what happened is completely unavoidable if they would just follow the very simple rules of the Shield Punt. ShieldPunt.com has the #1 resource for the Shield Punt in America. Chris Fore used the Shield Punt from 2002-2017, 440 punts!

[@kahaladentist]

Perhaps the alignments by the right tackle and the right TE are tighter than ideal. I also see a snap that carried the punter towards the open edge, and messed up his ideal launch point. Finally, I see a shield that came crushing down on the open edge side. The alignment, the errant snap, and the collapsing shield gave the open edge blocker a shorter and straight path to the block point. Blocking scheme the only thing to blame? IDK, could be...

[@goop3213]

So why did Kstate block another this week against Texas tech??

[@chrisfore]

Send me a clip of it, and I’ll tell you why. Whether or not they blocked a punt this week doesn’t mean the breakdown of Oklahoma’s horrible scheme is wrong, correct? They aren’t mutually exclusive.