We already showed you the Iowa punter having an eventful night in the Hawkeyes’ game against Michigan, and there was a wacky play involving a punter in another Big 10 game Saturday night as well.

Nebraska punter Caleb Lightbourn had a punt against Minnesota go for… negative-two yards. Yes, a negative-two yard punt. You’re clearly wondering, “how does this happen?” And that’s a good question!

Well, here’s how it happened:


So, basically Lightbourn just punted the ball “straight up the elevator shaft” as Big Ten Network play-by-play man Kevin Kugler explained, and the ball landed about 15 yards away, before then taking an incredibly unfortunate bounce back to behind the line of scrimmage.

Pretty awful, but equally as amazing! And Lightbourn can now look at the optimistic side of things on that one, as the No. 19 Huskers came away with a 24-17 victory over Minnesota.

[Big Ten Network]

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