Saturday’s game between the Miami (OH) RedHawks and the Akron Zips featured one of the strangest ejections that you will ever see in college football.
The game was seemingly well in hand when Akron scored a touchdown with 4:01 remaining in the fourth quarter to make the score 27-9, with Miami holding the lead. Akron then went for a two-point conversion to try to make it a two-score game, and they were successful, but an illegal blindside block negated the conversion.
This set off Akron backup quarterback Jeff Undercuffler Jr., who was irate at the decision by the referees, screaming some expletives at them from the sideline. He was promptly issued two personal foul penalties from the sideline resulting in an ejection from the game.
That's one way to earn an ejection as a backup quarterback pic.twitter.com/Id9Q5aoodB
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) October 29, 2022
These three penalties hilariously resulted in Akron trying a conversion from the 47-yard line, which they unsurprisingly did not convert.
Undercuffler hadn’t even touched the field in the game, so it was certainly the most bizarre ejection that we have seen this year in college football.
That being said, considering what it looked like he said to the referees, many believe that his ejection was justified.
“Yep. That’ll get ya kicked-out.” https://t.co/592gt2vOBV
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) October 29, 2022
Two for the price of one. That sure was some magic words. https://t.co/75Biyf8tTH
— Aki Halonen (@akihalonen) October 29, 2022
Yeah, that’ll get it done. https://t.co/1fxmJDK4Vc
— Kurtis Seaboldt 🎤 (@KSeaboldt) October 29, 2022
I’m no fan of refs, but dude… You’re the backup QB for Akron, and about to fall to 1-8. Shut up. https://t.co/h0s6yBekmh
— ethan (@YaBoi_Cooper) October 29, 2022
That'll get a bar of soap in your mouth, too! https://t.co/xMOTm5gFB7
— NMS Sports Medicine (@NighthawkATC) October 29, 2022
Akron fell to 1-8 on the season following this loss to Miami, so it could certainly be the frustrations of a bad season building up for Jeff Undercuffler Jr. that resulted in this ejection.
Regardless, this strange situation between Undercuffler and the referees was one of the few entertaining moments coming from an Akron offensive player in this game.
About Reice Shipley
Reice Shipley is a staff writer for Comeback Media that graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in Sports Media. He previously worked at Barrett Sports Media and is a fan of all things Syracuse sports.