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By Sam Neumann on

Sometimes coaches will fall asleep at the wheel. Whenever you’re the head coach of a Power Five program, you have so many buttons to push, that gamedays have to be considerably exhausting. So if Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher missed a play or two, it would be understandable.

What’s not understandable is how Fisher ends up five yards on the field during a scoop and score fumble. It’s not as if the player in question was done by contact. It was a forced fumble, with a clear recovery and return, and there was the Texas A&M head coach serving as a leader blocker for Auburn.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter of Saturday’s contest between Texas A&M and Auburn, Tigers freshman cornerback Kayin Lee forced a fumble, swiping the ball out of Aggies freshman running back Rueben Owens’s hands.

The ball was scooped out of the air by Eugene Asante, who had to sidestep and run around Fisher, who for some reason was on the field.

 

Those in the college football world were quick to react, as many wondered what it was that Fisher was doing on the field in the first place.

We’ll have to see what Fisher says about being in the middle of this play come the postgame press conference.

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About Sam Neumann

Since the beginning of 2023, Sam has been a staff writer for Awful Announcing and The Comeback. A 2021 graduate of Temple University, Sam is a Charlotte native, who currently calls Greenville, South Carolina his home. He also has a love/hate relationship with the New York Mets and Jets.

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