College football bowls 2017-18: Best trick plays of bowl season

Tom Gatto

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Trick plays are bowl season staples. Teams get 15 extra practices in December and January to figure out how to fool their opponents.

The results are often entertaining, regardless of if they work. For this list, we're showing the trickeration that has worked best this bowl season.

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Oklahoma reverse throw

Game: Rose Bowl, Oklahoma vs. Georgia.

Result: Baker Mayfield 2-yard touchdown pass from CeeDee Lamb.

TCU throwback

Game: Alamo Bowl, TCU vs. Stanford.

Result: Kenny Hill 27-yard touchdown pass from Desmon White.

Purdue fake kneel

Game: Foster Farms Bowl, Purdue vs. Arizona.

Result: D.J. Knox 41-yard run.

Virginia Tech fake punt

Game: Camping World Bowl, Virginia Tech vs. Oklahoma State.

Result: Anthony Shegog 22-yard pass from Chase Mummau.

Texas reverse

Game: Texas Bowl, Texas vs. Missouri.

Result: Armanti Foreman 18-yard touchdown run.

Georgia State flea-flicker

Game: Cure Bowl, Georgia State vs. Western Kentucky.

Result: Roger Carter 42-yard touchdown pass from Conner Manning.

Tom Gatto

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.