West Virginia takes a page out of the Chiefs' 2022 playbook

If you watched the Penn State vs. West Virginia game on Saturday, you might have noticed a familiar play. The Kansas City Chiefs shocked the football world when they unveiled their "Snow Globe" play against the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 18 of the 2022 NFL season. They went back to the same unique spinning huddle in […]

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If you watched the Penn State vs. West Virginia game on Saturday, you might have noticed a familiar play.

The Kansas City Chiefs shocked the football world when they unveiled their "Snow Globe" play against the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 18 of the 2022 NFL season. They went back to the same unique spinning huddle in Super Bowl LVII. Now, a version of that play has shown up in college football. 

The Mountaineers were down 18 points with under four minutes to go in the game. In order to have any shot at coming back against the Nittany Lions, they needed a two-point conversion. They busted out the Snow Globe formation and managed to convert. 

The play wasn't an exact copy of the one that the Chiefs ran in Week 18 or in the Super Bowl, but they used the spinning huddle to get Penn State off balance. That's really the key to play according to Chiefs HC Andy Reid. 

“Well, you saw how it ended up? That’s the benefit,” Reid said back in January. “It’s just to create a little bit of confusion and then to line up in something that’s not familiar to the opposing team."

The fact that WVU ran a shovel pass to the H-Back out of this formation shows that it was clearly an homage to Kansas City. They've run that type of play to Travis Kelce dozens of times over the past few years. 

Perhaps we'll see Reid and Mahomes implement this version of the play into the playbook for the 2023 NFL season. Who knows, maybe the play will even succeed where the other two attempts have failed for the Chiefs.

Featured image via NBC Sports

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