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USA Today Sports Media Group
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Cory Woodroof

Colorado State ran a trick play so effective that it briefly broke the CBS Sports broadcast

Colorado State football ran a trick play that was so effective on Saturday that it temporarily broke the CBS Sports Network broadcast.

On a bit of offensive trickery that had the San Diego State defense looking one way as the ball wound up going the other, the CBS broadcast also got very confused as to what exactly was going on.

The broadcast got so temporarily frazzled that the first-down marker went haywire and followed the Rams receiver as they tried to get the first down after catching the ball.

It’s just not often that the entire football broadcast glitches over a trick play, but Colorado State literally had everyone fooled on this surprise formation.

Now that’s some effective trickery right there. Kudos to Colorado State for finding a way to not only trick San Diego State, but the literal technology that was helping viewers track where the first-down marker was.

If that’s not an impressive feat of play calling and execution, we’re not sure what is.

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