TCU apparently knew about Michigan’s sign-stealing habit ahead of their College Football Playoff matchup last New Year’s Eve, according to a report from Yahoo! Sports’ Ross Dellenger.
In order to mess with the Wolverines, the Horned Frogs changed their signs before kickoff. The coaches also used “dummy signals,” which were old plays that no longer ran with that signal. TCU players had to ignore these signals.
“Sometimes we froze a play before the snap,” a TCU coach told Dellenger. “We’d call a play and then we’d signal in another play with an old signal but we told players to run the original play.”
