Auburn cheerleader takes out unassuming Oklahoma player with a wild pregame backflip collision

When you’re on a football field, you must always be aware of your surroundings.

That’s true after the ball snaps, but it’s also the case before it’s even kicked off. An Auburn cheerleader and Oklahoma football player learned that the hard way on Saturday during Week 5.

As the Sooners were running out of the pregame away team tunnel onto the field at Jordan-Hare Stadium, one member of the Auburn cheer squad — who was locked into his backflip routine and clearly unaware of where he was on the field — collided with an equally oblivious Oklahoma player.

Luckily, everyone involved looks to have been OK, but it’s honestly hard to understand how this even happened.

 

one of our cheerleaders just absolutely demolished an oklahoma with some wild crouching tiger hidden dragon move pic.twitter.com/bTlRCFAIXx

— Brice (@dBriceJ) September 28, 2024

As you can see in the zoomed-in clip, one Oklahoma player had the wherewithal to move out of the way before suffering the same fate, but his teammate wasn’t quite so observant.

Here's the zoom in for anyone who needs it pic.twitter.com/zeRsfnn81d

— Dan Why-Ner (@ReallyDanWeiner) September 28, 2024

It’s hard to say based on the clip who exactly holds the lion’s share of the blame here, but regardless, the result was a predictably viral moment ahead of a football game that may not be quite as exciting.