Pitt quarterback Kenny Pickett has forever changed the game of college football, as the fake slide move he executed in Pitt’s 45-21 win over Wake Forest for the ACC title has been outlawed by the NCAA Rules Committee.
The move in question came in the first quarter of the ACC championship game, when Pickett broke off a 58-yard run. The run came on 3rd-and-5, and it appeared that Pickett was about to slide after he had gotten enough for the first down. But when Wake Forest defensive back Nick Andersen let up, Pickett pulled out of the slide and then raced to the end zone.