The North Texas Mean Green football team put in an early candidate for college football play of the year on Saturday. North Texas sophomore wide receiver Keegan Brewer returned a punt 90 yards for a touchdown in the first quarter of a 44-17 upset of Arkansas at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium.

But this wasn't your everyday punt return for a touchdown. This one included Brewer and his Mean Green teammates tricking all the Arkansas Razorbacks players on the punt coverage team into believing the wide receiver had called for a fair catch. Brewer caught the ball, and then started acting the way you act when you've caught a ho-hum fair catch in the first quarter of a game. But at the moment when Brewer would have casually flipped the ball to the nearest official, he instead took off running for the end zone. By the time Arkansas noticed what was going on, it was too late, and the sophomore wideout was in the clear for a touchdown.

However, the sly play by the Mean Green may end up being the last of its kind. Arkansas-based ESPN radio broadcaster Tommy Craft reported Monday that the NCAA Football Rules Committee is considering swift action that could eliminate similar fake fair catch trickery forever.

"Was told earlier today that NCAA FB Rules committee is considering a rule amendment possibly as soon as this weekend to close any loophole that would allow a Punt Return similar to UNT’s 90 yd score vs ARK," Craft tweeted.

Speaking with SB Nation after the game, Brewer and North Texas special teams coach Marty Biagi discussed the planning and execution of the trick play. The explanation even included the shocking reveal that Arkansas linebacker Grant Morgan, a member of the punt coverage team, actually asked Brewer why officials were not blowing the whistle seconds before he took off for the end zone.

“The guy (Morgan) right in front of me was actually talking to me,” Brewer said. “I just sat there and waited. It wasn’t too hard.”

The team had been practicing the fake fair catch play since fall camp began in August. To make the play work, everyone on the North Texas sideline had to be on the same page.

“You talk about a big operation,” Biagi said. “You’ve gotta have all hands on deck, because you’ve gotta have the sideline coaches, the strength staff doing a great job keeping everybody off the field, ‘cause normally what happens (on a fair catch) is the offense is ready to take the field, run on, and get everyone fired up.”

Biagi didn't go into detail, but he told SB Nation that the decision to break out the trickery against Arkansas "involved how the Hogs tended to finish their coverages," SB Nation contributor Alex Kirshner wrote. Brewer was informed that North Texas was going to run the play shortly before taking the field. The returner admitted that he was nervous about a potential big hit if Arkansas players had noticed a fair catch wasn't actually called.

“I was, definitely,” Brewer said. “But the punt that they kicked wasn’t a high one, so it wasn’t one where I’d be totally scared, where they’d just be surrounding me. So as soon as I caught it, I had a little bit of time to protect myself, which I was a little scared [about] before the play. But after that, once I had the ball, it was good.”

“I guess it’s like anything,” Biagi said about the potential to see a similar play occur again. “You’ve gotta know and do great film study. It’s kind of like everything goes around and travels full circle. Maybe somebody’ll try it, and maybe somebody won’t try it for 50 years, after I’m long gone.

“You never know. It could happen again. But I’m not really sure when.”

If the NCAA Football Rules Committee actually implements a new rule, the answer will be never.