fucking this up was a way more egregious gaffe than had Day actually chosen to punt. OSU only netted 13 yards on this punt because the punter didn't even know the ball was coming to him and was lucky to get the touchback instead of it being blocked.


https://twitter.com/rossrfulton/status/1597227040595644416?s=42&t=7bJc1ffURYWRJ1SC2XPaSg

https://twitter.com/rossrfulton/status/1597227299275165698?s=42&t=7bJc1ffURYWRJ1SC2XPaSg

“We got so lucky,” Harbaugh said. “They had a fake on. And they had us. I mean they had us cold. We were prepared for it. We knew the fake was coming just by the personnel that was there. We had four practices, four meetings. And not one of us saw it. Nobody on the field saw it, and they had us cold.

“I think their snapper snapped to the wrong guy, snapped it to the punter instead of to the faker, but it would have been a huge gain. We got extremely lucky. They actually were going for it and would have pulled off a big fourth-down conversion. We're kicking ourselves for not identifying it like we should have. We got super lucky.

“It’s not a question of coaching decision. They had decided – had it really wired to work. We had it wired to stop. We could have really stopped it. And then when they did snap it to their punter, we really should have blocked it.”