where they've struggled to score all year and run a play to simply see how a team would line up for it, to call it later.

Teams will run a play, like jet sweep, ect and hand off to maybe the WR where the play is designed to hand it off to the RB to see how they respond but they don't run nonsense plays that make zero sense at all.

There is not a single person outside of the BYU staff who thought that play made any sense.

Was Boise caught off guard? Maybe but only because they were scratching their head on how stupid a play call that really was.