Charlie Brown Play at U of I Nebraska game

My wife and I went to the U of I Nebraska game on Friday night in Champaign. The Cornhuskers had dropped 3 straight games after starting 5-0. The Illini were on the opposite trajectory with 3 wins in a row after a 2-3 start. At the beginning of the 2nd half it was a 7-7 draw. Nebraska scored first  but had missed 2 field goal attempts in the first half much to the Illini faithful's delight as that meant free McNuggets the next day at McDonalds. Illinois tied the score near the end of the 2nd quarter.  

  Fans cheering nuggets

The Illini started with the ball at the beginning of the 2nd half and when their drive stalled, they set up for a field goal attempt of their own, or did they?  Here is how the play transpired:

 Coach Bielema had run this play succesfully against Ohio State back in 2009 when he was the head coach at UW.  At the post game press conference on Friday night, Bielema explained how the play was called Charlie Brown and this clip shows him talking about the play and under that it shows  both the UW and the U of I version,  Bielema mentioned that many of his coaches and players did not get the Charlie Brown reference so he had to show a clip of Lucy pulling the ball away from Charlie Brown to the team. Here is one such example  from the film "A Boy Named Charlie Brown"

U of I never looked back after this play and won the game by a final score of 24-13.  The victory insured a 3rd straight bowl appearance for the Fighting Illini.  We will have to wait until next Friday night to see what kind of tricks and treats Illinois has in store for the undefeated UCLA Bruins as they play at the  Rose Bowl for the first time since UCLA joined the Big 10.