{"id":910845,"date":"2026-11-09T03:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T03:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/910845\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T03:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T03:42:28","slug":"boston-college-scores-on-bizarre-ring-around-the-rosie-homage-to-the-longest-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/910845\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston College scores on bizarre ‘Ring-Around-The-Rosie’ homage to ‘The Longest Yard’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 1974 Burt Reynolds classic “The Longest Yard” introduced the Mean Machine to the masses, and on Saturday the Boston College Eagles<\/a> stunned the college football world by dusting off their signature play.<\/p>\n

The Eagles welcomed the Florida State Seminoles<\/a> to town, with FSU interim head coach Rick Stockstill leading the team.<\/p>\n

In the third quarter, the Seminoles were up 21-17, but the Eagles were on the doorstep. On second and goal, they dropped the film’s famous “Ring-Around-The-Rosie” huddle before lining up their offensive lineman at the bottom of the field.<\/p>\n

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Talk about the element of surprise.<\/p>\n

Once you finally get past the spinning, you’re faced with players lining up all over the place.<\/p>\n

Then, to add to the confusion, you’ve got a beauty of a play fake that seemed to even fool the cameraman for a second.<\/p>\n

\"Boston <\/p>\n

The Boston College Eagles broke out an homage to the 1974 movie, “The Longest Yard.” (Eric Canha-Imagn Images)<\/p>\n

And, if you needed anything else, QB Mason McKenzie decided to dish the ball off to Javarius Green underhand for six.<\/p>\n

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There’s no way FSU’s defense<\/a> was prepared for any of that.<\/p>\n

Sure, the play probably could have worked without the spinning, but that was likely the first thing that left the Seminoles\u2019 defense wondering what on Earth was happening.<\/p>\n

\"Jasen <\/p>\n

Florida State Seminoles wide receiver Jasen Lopez reacts to his first-down catch against the Boston College Eagles during the second half at Alumni Stadium in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, on Nov. 7, 2026. (Eric Canha\/Imagn Images)<\/p>\n

The only problem was that the Eagles probably could’ve used a few more plays as effective as that one.<\/p>\n

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They gave up ten points in the fourth quarter to lose this one to the Seminoles<\/a> by a score of 31-24.<\/p>\n

Matthew Reigle is a writer for OutKick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 1974 Burt Reynolds classic “The Longest Yard” introduced the Mean Machine to the masses, and on Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[11409,8940,399,398,140712,396,397,259870,99],"class_list":["post-910845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-boston-college","tag-florida-state-seminoles","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-fb","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-outkick-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910845","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=910845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}