What was Jimbo Fisher doing on the field? Auburn’s Eugene Asante called it bizarre.

As he ran toward the sideline to make a tackle, turns out Eugene Asante was in the right place at the right time. Freshman Kayin Lee tackled Texas A&M running back Reuben Owens and popped the ball right out of his hands into the air. The ball fell to Asante’s chest. He caught it, and turned upfield where there was no one in his way to stop him before the endzone.

Actually, there is one guy. He’s wearing white.

Wait, hold on a second. Isn’t Auburn wearing white? Who is that?

Turns out, it was Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher about three yards out on the field.

So why, why oh why, was Fisher on the field as the play was continuing?

Turns out, he thought the play had been brought to a halt. He was mad about the ball going to Owens, when instead he wanted a screen pass thrown. So he went out on the field to start yelling and whoosh, there goes Asante.

“But anyway, I thought the ball was in front of me and obviously he was running around the corner,” Fisher said in his post-game press conference Saturday. “I thought the play was dead, and I was yelling at somebody else on the side, and the ball is coming back my way. I said, ‘Dang.’ I mean it ain’t supposed to happen. I’m lucky I didn’t get ran over.”

Asante certainly wasn’t expecting to see a coach on the field.

So from his own perspective as he turned to run, and saw Fisher there, he was caught off guard.

“It kind of threw me off a bit,” Asante said. “It was a shocking thing. It was bizarre, to be honest. I’ve never-- well I’ve seen it one time with the NFL, Mike Tomlin. It was a bizarre thing to experience going through.”

Turned out Fisher wasn’t in much of a tackling form anyway, and Asante split the gap between him and the sideline for a 67-yard return to the endzone. He outscored the entire Auburn offense by himself on a day when Auburn lost 27-10 to Texas A&M.

And it did resemble the play Asante referenced of Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin, who stepped on the field during a 2013 Thanksgiving game against the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium and ultimately disrupted a return from Ravens wide receiver Jacoby Jones.

Tomlin was fined $100,000 by the NFL for the play.

Matt Cohen covers Auburn sports for AL.com. You can follow him on Twitter at @Matt_Cohen_ or email him at mcohen@al.com