3:08 mark (forgot how to time stamp it and got an error the 1st time):
All I see is three and a half minutes of celebration
RRghh wrong video when I went to fix the error.
TONS of vids on YT, take your pick (since I have no dog in this fight).
Here’s an MSN article with the video embedded in a xitter tweet.
I’m watching it and I don’t ever see a touchdown call. Then the referee announces that the spot is short of the goal line and it’s USC’s ball. Then he announces that, after video review, the call is overturned and it’s a touchdown.
I don’t see this:
What am I missing?
Call on the field was short, no Touchdown. But there was not CONCLUSIVE VIDEO. The ball simply isn’t seen, until its loose by fumble.
Now, I agree he most likely crossed the plain, but I never saw evidence. So, they replayed it, and just went with the assumption he had crossed the goal. That is not how the system is supposed to work.
My problem with the constant reviews is they do get shit wrong, somethings aren’t reviewable, clear penalties are ignored… blah blah blah. They waste far too much time getting the right call… except when don’t for whatever reason. The whole thing seems really half-assed.
Like that kick-off that was shit-canned for offsides: review clearly showed the player was not offside, so why not fix that play?? Oh, can’t review that one.
Half-assed, I say!!
(I’m just pissed my shitty team lost AGAIN! 
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OK, I misunderstood your point. You are saying that since no conclusive video was shown on TV, that there was no conclusive video available.
I would respectfully disagree. The officials are not going to overturn a call on the field without video evidence. The fact that we didn’t see it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
Well, I watch about six or eight games a week (I have no life off the couch at all) and have never seen a replay be overturned without seeing what the officials saw. So we’ll just forget it. Game is done, winners and losers recorded and move on to next week.
Two announcements from the NCAA:
First, the football transfer portal windows are being reduced - now, it is a 20-day window starting the day after the CFP brackets are announced (except that teams in postseason games have an additional 5-day window starting the day after their final games), plus a 10-day window starting in mid-April. This is in addition to the 30-day window a team gets when its head coach leaves.
The basketball window has also been reduced to 30 days, and will start one week later than before - on the Monday after the first weekend of the tournament.
Second, National Letters of Intent are, for all intents and purposes, going away - they are being replaced with “official written offers of financial aid,” and acceptance dates for these use the existing NLI signing dates calculation method. Once an athlete signs one, they are removed from the transfer portal.
Despite being mid-Big 10 standings, Washington from here on out is playing all of the teams above them except for Ohio State University. If Washington wins out and either OSU or Rutgers loses a game during the rest of the season, UW wins all of the tie breaks and will be in Big 10 Championship game.
Completely unrelated to my overanalysis above, if at the beginning of the season someone had put down $100 for Washington to win the NCAA championship, they would get paid $30,000.
Iowa State is undefeated and one game from bowl eligibility, the top ranked team in the Big 12, and are looking solid. They do have games remaining against Texas Tech, Utah, and Kansas State, so not exactly a powder puff lineup, but could possibly, maybe, even PONTENTIALLY, win the Big 12 championship outright. At which point they’ll go to the playoffs, get mauled, and we just wait for next year.
Campbell is the winningest Cyclones head coach since Woodrow Wilson was in office. It’s been a good fall so far.
Nitpick: he’s the winningest Cyclones coach of all time. He has the best winning percentage since Woodrow Wilson was in office.
Watched SC v Penn St.
Holy Fucking Shit! Introduced me to this Monster Tyler Warren. Pretty much beat SC single-handed. Triggered my PTSD of Christian McCaffrey when he was at Stanford. Goddamn Trojans blew a 2 touch lead at halftime by letting this goddamn guy run loose.
It was a fun game to watch, but didn’t like the outcome. This Warren kid has a serious future.
The Oregon vs Ohio State game ended with the Ohio State QB pulling a Dak Prescott. Scrambling up the field in the last few seconds and running out of time.
He never should have been in that situation, but unfortunately the Ohio State coaching staff was stupid. 1st down on Oregon’s 28. 34 seconds left. Down by one, only need a field goal to win it. Oregon has 3 timeouts, Ohio State has one.
You’re in long but makeable field goal range already. What should you do?
I was screaming at the TV for them to run the ball. If Oregon uses their time outs to try and save some clock you run it 3 times. If you get a 1st down the game is almost certainly yours. If you don’t get the 1st down at least you’re hopefully closer for a more makeable field goal.
And the Zebras. 2 CLEAR PI not called. Would have secured SC the game, I think.
Exactly right. The game was there for the taking.
Instead, they get an offensive pass interference call, which, in college, carries a 15-yard penalty. Suddenly, they’re out of FG range, 2nd and 25, with 22 seconds left.
The conspiracists are running wild that the final flag on Oregon for 12 men on the field was intentional. With ten seconds left, it gave them an extra man to prevent a big play and ran four seconds off the clock for just a five yard penalty. Don’t know if I buy it but it sure worked out for them.
No idea, but if it was intentional I wouldn’t consider it a conspiracy. I’d call it smart strategy to use the rules to your advantage.
Well, Lanning confirmed that it was a deliberate move by Oregon to put 12 men on the field for that play so show’s what I know.
My guess would be that this is the last season that will work. The rule will be changed to reset the clock on a defensive live ball procedural penalty within the last X seconds of a game (or a half).