{"id":282869,"date":"2025-11-10T08:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/282869\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T08:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:19:07","slug":"usc-shouldve-been-penalized-after-qb-wore-punters-jersey-number-on-fake-punt-big-ten-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/282869\/","title":{"rendered":"USC should’ve been penalized after QB wore punter’s jersey number on fake punt, Big Ten says"},"content":{"rendered":"

ROSEMONT, Ill. \u2014 Southern California should have been assessed an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty during its game against Northwestern for having a reserve quarterback who executed a fake punt wear the same number as the Trojans\u2019 regular punter, the Big Ten announced Sunday.<\/p>\n

Early in the second quarter of Friday\u2019s game in Los Angeles, third-string quarterback Sam Huard lined up in the punter\u2019s spot wearing jersey No. 80<\/a> on a fourth-and-6 play. He took the long snap and completed a pass to Tanook Hines for a 10-yard gain. The Trojans scored a tie-breaking touchdown five plays later and won 38-17.<\/p>\n

Sam Johnson, the Trojans\u2019 regular punter who wears No. 80, punted for the first time on the next possession. At that point, the Big Ten said in a statement, USC should have been penalized under the NCAA\u2019s \u201cUnfair Tactics\u201d rule (Rule 9, Section 2, Article 2).<\/p>\n

Paragraph D states, \u201cTwo players playing the same position may not wear the same number during the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Big Ten said it would continue to review the situation with both schools.<\/p>\n

Huard is listed as No. 7 on the Trojans\u2019 official online roster. He was listed as No. 80 along with Johnson on the game-day roster.<\/p>\n

It is common for college football rosters to have duplicate numbers, but typically one of the players is on offense and the other is on defense.<\/p>\n

Northwestern coach David Braun did not complain about the play after the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROSEMONT, Ill. \u2014 Southern California should have been assessed an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty during its game against Northwestern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-282869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}