That’s the typical reaction and thinking.
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That wouldn’t prevent a situation like Saturday from ever happening again. By rule, the play should not have happened.
When a player does what Arizona State’s Kalen Ballage did Saturday night, you usually expect that it came in a game that went to two or three overtimes.
– Samuel Chi is the managing editor of RealClearSports.com and proprietor of College Football Exchange.
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In all his career – 12 years as a head coach, 15 years as an assistant – Gundy said he can’t remember anything like it happening to his teams.
For at least Monday, that’s a hard task.
Oklahoma State lost Saturday to Central Michigan on a Hail Mary and lateral with no time left after an untimed down.
“We shouldn’t have been that close … what’s done is done”, he said.
An unbelievable Hail Mary play led to a win for Central Michigan during last weekend’s game in Stillwater.
“Honestly, when it happened to me and I saw it and saw it, I’m sitting there thinking, this is probably the same way Bob (Stoops) felt when Tyreek (Hill) was returning the punt”, Gundy said.
After Colorado beat the Tigers, Missouri chancellor Haskell Monroe petitioned the Big Eight for the final touchdown to be disallowed and for the Tigers to be awarded the win. “I have personally informed the crew of our decision”, said Bill Carollo, Coordinator of Football Officials, Collegiate Officiating Consortium. We’re playing a school that does not want to use our officials, you move on and find another school. “Or we don’t sign a contract”.
And the Big 12 announced that the two-person video replay crew that worked the game also has been suspended for two games. The crews from both leagues were suspended Sunday for two games.
The NCAA rule book states. There can be no reversal of the outcome by a higher authority.
Let’s go back to the 2006 season, when the NCAA adopted an absurd new rule that required the clock to start when the ball is kicked on kickoff (as opposed to when it’s put into play by the receiving team).
Still, Miami-Duke could have been considered an exercise in bad judgment – human error – by the replay crew. “In my mind, it is incomprehensible that a misapplication of the rules after time has expired can’t be corrected”.
“Everybody wants to see us score 50 points, 60 points and everybody wants it now”, quarterback Deshaun Watson said after the game. “It has been discussed in the past”. But if you think about this a little harder, does the rule actually make sense?
Officials for nonconference games are determined by the schools as part of a contractual agreement. The Big 12 also banned the pair from working a bowl game this year.
Former Texas Tech coach Tommy Tuberville, who now coaches at Cincinnati, reacted like an Old West hanging judge.
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“We are just trying to bounce back”, Oklahoma State cornerback Ashton Lampkin said. Coach Bono feels you need to be a good situationally-aware team. They are joyously unpredictable while, at the same time, offering a degree of resolution that most of us don’t get from the nuances of daily life. “I’ll tell you who is really happy – his offensive line”.
